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Lynn's Comments:<\/strong> I didn't learn to skate until I was over 35! What gave me the courage to try was a really good pair of skates and the lure of a rink made by the neighbours on Trout Lake outside of North Bay, Ontario. It was one of those perfect days. The ice was thick and the snow was fresh. Just a few passes of the snow blower and a small private rink was cleared. The kids both had skates that still fit, and my mom-in-law had borrowed skates for the rest of us. She\u2019d made hot chocolate in a big thermos and the Harrisons, whose house we were visiting, had built a fire in the pit down by the dock.\n
\nFor the first time since I was a kid, I strapped on skates (dull rentals) and shoved off from the snow bank. To my surprise, I discovered the bite of a sharp blade and was actually scraping my way forward. That\u2019s it. I never went again, past those surprising few turns around the ice, but it was enough to let me know how it\u2019s done and why some people become champion skaters. You just have to experience this exhilaration when you're young!<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lynn’s Comments: I didn’t learn to skate until I was over 35! What gave me the courage to try was a really good pair of skates and the lure of a rink made by the neighbours on Trout Lake outside of North Bay, Ontario. It was one of those perfect days. The ice was thick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"storylines":[],"charactersappearing":[112,23,3,2,1932],"coolstuff":[],"striptype":[41],"item":[232,849],"books":[],"holiday":[],"location":[795],"class_list":["post-15041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","charactersappearing-elizabeth","charactersappearing-elly","charactersappearing-john","charactersappearing-michael","charactersappearing-skaters","striptype-sunday","item-car","item-skates","location-arena"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nFor the first time since I was a kid, I strapped on skates (dull rentals) and shoved off from the snow bank. To my surprise, I discovered the bite of a sharp blade and was actually scraping my way forward. That\u2019s it. I never went again, past those surprising few turns around the ice, but it was enough to let me know how it\u2019s done and why some people become champion skaters. You just have to experience this exhilaration when you're young!<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lynn’s Comments: I didn’t learn to skate until I was over 35! What gave me the courage to try was a really good pair of skates and the lure of a rink made by the neighbours on Trout Lake outside of North Bay, Ontario. It was one of those perfect days. The ice was thick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"storylines":[],"charactersappearing":[112,23,3,2,1932],"coolstuff":[],"striptype":[41],"item":[232,849],"books":[],"holiday":[],"location":[795],"class_list":["post-15041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","charactersappearing-elizabeth","charactersappearing-elly","charactersappearing-john","charactersappearing-michael","charactersappearing-skaters","striptype-sunday","item-car","item-skates","location-arena"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n