Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for January 22, 2010

That’s quite some hill! Where’s my sled?

My nephew used to go sledding with a bunch of people in a plastic bed liner from a pickup truck. Always wanted to try that.

Looks like “Eagle Hill”, in Highland Park, Rochester, N.Y.

I got mangled sleding there when my Father & I crashed coming down the hill riding on my sled together.

Ah … the memories.

Enjoy, Alice !

Petey looks so much like Conan here.

Team Petey!

luezer: guess spray on liner won’t work. I still have my first sled, it’s 54 years old.

Petey is such a great brother! I am glad we can see his whole face!

I appreciate this strip even more since I read the blog on Richard’s technique yesterday. I’ve worked on Arches, too, but I use parchmentine for most of my scrolls, but also waterproof ink for sketching and caligraphy.

So nice of Petey to take Alice sledding!

it must have warmed up, peteys face is uncovered

my mom had a fit when i took the top to the wringr washer to go sledding when i was 9. my dad never get all the dents out of it

When the streets and roads were nice and snowy, we loved getting pulled on a toboggen tied behind a car. The wrecked toboggens and bones were worth it.

To answer Alice’s question yesterday, YES, PETEY. Surprise!.

The hill that did me in was King Hill in Minot, ND.

We had a tobaggan and a saucer sled when we were kids, and lived near a hill that abutted the railroad tracks. Ah, good times..

Never rode a toboggan, but at one point we traded in our runner sleds for saucer sleds. Those have even LESS control than toboggans, ‘cause you can’t guarantee you’ll even stay pointed in one direction!

I’m biased against runner sleds anyway, because of an unfortunate collision with one. Bruised bones are one thing, gashed flesh is quite another…

There was a small but servicable slope by my school, which was within walking distance. For REAL thrills, we’d ask to be driven to one particular city park, which was known year-round as the one with “the sledding hill.”

(Decent hills are few and far between in Central Illinois…)

Yes, I grew up in Chi ‘burbs, so there were no hills in my years- for my kids, there was a landfill “Mount Trashmore” (seriously)!

Still is vldazzle, you can see it from the Skokie Swift to this day. Other than the snow. And the grass.

Me, I think Petey is taking Alice to the K-12 from “Better Off Dead”.