winter follies...

as promised earlier , here is the snowmobile story as told by the family comedian , Big Dan...

"The snowmobile we had broke down so I peed in a bucket and went after the old man to dump it on him......no.....no I think I'm getting my stories mixed up.....ummm. Oh yeah. Tammy and I took the snowmobile up to the golf course there. That was a great place to go snowmobiling too. But, we didn't usually go up there too often as I'm not sure if the would like that. There was alot of snow this particular day and we were all bundled up as it was pretty cold out. I noticed the throttle kept sticking once in awhile, which of course is not a good thing. But if you put the brake on hard it would stop and throttle snap back to normal. Well as has happened before it seems as though someone told me there was plenty of gas left in the machine. You couldn't read the gauge. So we had run out of gas and fortunately not too far from Gramma's house toward the front of the golf course. Went to get gas can in Gramma's garage. My dad came out. Told him we were out of gas plus the throttle was sticking so he walked back up to the golf course with us to check it out. Put gas in. I warned dad about the throttle. He started it up while not seated on it, played with the throttle and it stuck and started taking off. There Dad was walking, then trotting along side the snowmobile with his boots on as the snow got deeper he was running faster trying to keep up. Help, runaway killer snowmobile like something out of America's funniest videos. We ran after him. There we were the 3 of us running after the snow mobile. Pretty comical sight. As the snow got deeper poor dad was one hand on handle bar bounding through the snow but slower and slower, a perfect ballet if you throw in the nutcraker song. Oh no dad look out for that.........smash!.....tree. Smashed tthe front end bumper and bent it, also cracked the winshield. I think he bel ieved me about the throttle then. Dad didn't really swear much at all but I heard him cut loose with a few expletives as we approached to see if he was alright. You look back at stuff like that today and laugh because it was such a comical sight and everyone was OK. Picture dad bounding through that snow trying to keep up with that snowmobile Something you don't forget. Ya had to be there but I still laugh about it. All happened right there at old 27!"

sorry it took so long to get posted . and any and all stories are appreciated...