We had similar growing up experiences - only mine was in Minnesota in the US but skating was an intimate part of every winter. Have missed those times ever since moving away. What lovely images and memories of your family - so warm.
This so interesting I’m fascinated with the snow and the ice skating as you might remember I live in Puerto Rico even do I was born in NY not to many memories of cold winters and beautiful snow, I want to thank you for sharing this I love it. Great memories love everything.
Thank you Sherry! Me neither - I know quite a few were able to do it but I was terrible at it. Also "stepping over" when going around a sharp corner was not something I was comfortable with.... I already found getting one skate in front of the other hard enough! :P
Winter memories are beautiful memories with all the trees lit up and fun snow days. We didn’t have ice skating where I live in the high desert but we did roller skate.
Oh that's so cool Ida! I wasn't good on roller skates at all... braking with those big speed stops on the toes terrified me so I just rammed myself into a wall and hoped for the best... :P
Thank you Susan! Yes, I guess there's a real culture of skating - and as a professional sport as well - Thialf is the biggest ice skating arena in the Netherlands, not far from where I was born - and lots of people go there to skate and train. It's quite cool! :D
Thank you Jacob for your amazing winter skating stories and how great to see you as a little “ Skater” who grew up to be a “ Stitcher”! I Loved all your family winter pictures! Thanks for sharing 🥰🧑🏻🦰🇨🇦
Leuk, die herinneringen aan de sneeuw als kind. Ik heb niet veel geschaatst op natuurijs hier in het zuiden maar ik heb erg leuke herinneringen aan het sleeën. Ik kan me herinneren dat ik 1 keer op natuurijs heb geschaatst, dat was in 1979. Er waren wel ijsbanen in de buurt waar je kon gaan schaatsen maar dat heb ik eigenlijk nooit gedaan. Ik vond sleeën veel leuker. 😄 Fijn weekend Jacob! 🎄
Dank je Joanita! Ja in het zuiden natuurlijk niet al te veel natuurijs! 1979 was echt een extreme winter - heel Friesland lag toen ook in Januari onder een enorme deken sneeuw...! Heb dat natuurlijk als baby niet bewust meegemaakt maar herinner me wel veel winters met veel sneeuw! :D
Lovely memories and pics. I grew up in a little village outside of Dresden Germany called Malschendorf. In the village there was a large pond where people used to skate. There was a big hullabaloo when one or some boys put salt on the ice and made the surface mooshy.....lol...
Thank you Hanna! Oh yes, salt!!! We'd get terribly cross if a boat was stupid enough to sail through the fresh ice, break it up, and completely ruin the chance of getting a smooth surface ever again. It was awful trying to skate on those chips... :P
I have fond memories of jumping off of snowdrifts into the soft snow at the bottom and skating on the frozen tennis courts. The Rideau Canal through Ottawa was also a wonderful place to skate. Unfortunately with the change in weather the ice hasn’t been thick enough to skate. Thank you for sharing yours.
Thank you for sharing the wonderful memories and photos ❤. I'm a little bit older than you lol, born in 1967 and love the memories I have as a child of the winter's here in Ontario Canada, lots of snow and skating outside and hot chocolate. I miss those days and wished we had snow like that again so I could make these memories with my grandchildren, but one can still hope 😊
Thank you for sharing the pictures of your family in the winter. My father taught my sisters and I to skate at a park near our home. I think our skates were a Christmas gift one year. This is one of my favorite memories of my father.
Thank you Jakob…such a grand time in Village, growing up around sooo much beauty.. You have that same engaging smile…. ❤ Skating in the winter ❄️ and Roller skating in off seasons, lucky for us My Dads (one of 8, he had 12 siblings) had a Roller Rink … I loved dancing around … it was magical for me with the live organ … & a huge crystal ball hanging … You’ve stirred up memories, of mine, Thank you …. Love your kitty … Stay safe ❄️🎄❄️🙏🌍 Blessings
Oh how cool Sharon! We don't have roller rinks over here (at least, not around where I grew up) but I've always loved seeing them in the movies and on TV...! :D
What fun to see some of your family pictures, Jacob! Speaking as one who never even learned to stand up on old-fashioned roller skates, I'm impressed. And I'm sure you've been told how much you resemble the lady who I assumed to be your mother. As you can imagine, most parts of Texas never see snow, although ice storms are not uncommon in the northern part of the state. But we had a substantial snow in Dallas, must have been the winter of 1951-1952. Somewhere there' a photo of my mother or big sister pushing me around in the back yard in a child-sized rocking chair! Sleds were also uncommon, lol. Loving your music, too.
Thank you so much Barbara! That's mom indeed! I look quite a bit like my mum and my sister as well, apparently. And I do take after my grandfather on my father's side too - so it's a weird mix of them! :D I'm really glad we don't get too many ice storms over here - not a cold wind fan at all! :D
Sigh, how nice to see you and your family in the pictures. I understand why you have such nice memories of winter and skating. Thanks for showing the skates up close. Because you got to keep your boots on your feet must have stayed nice and warm. Mine froze almost in minutes when I was young. 🥶
Thank you! Well - if you keep the shoes and the thick socks on, you're fine. I know some folks would even tie the skates to their wooden shoes...! They are quite practical that way :D
Yep@@alisoncaronflyingfree - we were even stranger in that we had wooden shoe skates as well! Here's some images on google (but you can search as well for "klompschaatsen" www.google.com/search?sca_esv=590241271&rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB886GB886&sxsrf=AM9HkKnlloGi1dYKJxX5de4rST2HUKoA3Q:1702408145161&q=klompschaats&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiyzoTGzIqDAxWt_rsIHXiIC44Q0pQJegQICRAB&biw=1270&bih=1358&dpr=2
The videos reminded me of an episode of Walt Disney. Skaters on a river in your neck of the woods.. Can't remember the title though. This was in the late sixties.😊
Oh cool! Someone in a comment here mentioned Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates from 1958? It's on TH-cam (though the title erroneously says it was 1985). It starred Tab Hunter as Hans Brinker :D
Merry Christmas, Jacob. I love the song!!! Thank you so much for the Advent calendar and accompagning us this December. I look forward to the next few days to catching up with the sampler and take my time. Thank you also for the gift! It's the perfect sampler for a blessing sampler!! It will be my start on January 1st. I wish you some free relaxing time with your family and a very happy New Year.
It looks like we had a very similar childhood although you were born ten years later :) I had same first skates, just a bit different: there was no wood, but leather on top of the curbed blades :) I spent a lot of time skating with friends in winter… So many memories! Just yesterday my husband and I were saying to each other how happy was our childhood - full of freedom to go everywhere and explore :) Thank you for sharing your memories and photos of your family, it is precious! ❤️
Thank you Natalia! Yes - we really had a lot of freedom to do as we wished. Still, I think kids in the Netherlands have quite a bit of freedom to just get their bikes out and roam the cities and countryside freely - it's really cool how important a good and safe infrastructure is in such cases. I've never felt unsafe just setting out on my own :).
I am loving these brief episodes. Jacob. They are wonderful accompaniments to this Christmas stitching journey we are on. I am enjoying every minute of stitching and watching.
Jacob, what beautiful memories to treasure…I so enjoyed learning a little bit about your childhood, beautiful family ♥️..skating was a big part of mine as well , NOT on those type of skates 😁 gorgeous photos Thank you
I remember skating on the canal next the Richelieu river in Quebec. The big cracks in the ice - ugh. The sure skaters would have no problem skating over them but I had fallen because of the big ones and did not like getting hurt. So I'd have to skate with a boyfriend holding my hand! I did not like having cold feet either. Hence, I'd rather be cross-country skiing. I loved that. Being in the woods gliding over the snow. Thanks for sharing your memories. 🙂
I've never done any skying Louise - but it does look quite amazing. The cracks in the ice are scary - on the lakes, the cracks would actually move and you'd have to get speed, then jump over the crack - which was absolutely terrifying haha! At night, the lakes would sing and sometimes you'd hear this really eerie sound of the ice.... it's a little bit like whalesong - I'm sure you must have heard that as well growing up!
Winter memories are so very special! There is nothing like being out in the cold and then coming into a warm loving home. Thank you for sharing your memories and pictures. You look like your father! Now let's hope that we have an old fashioned ice filled winter this season here in The Netherlands. ❄️
Thank you Heidi - and yes, coming back into the warmth is so lovely! My grandmother, mum and aunt are outside my aunt's house - they lived just next to the bridge seen in most of those pictures. So we'd be able to get back in, warm up, and then run out again! :D.
Thank you for sharing your happy Winter memories in photographs set to beautiful music with us! Skating around the provinces must be a tremendous sight to see! ⛸️⛸️⛸️
What a treasure to see a snippet of your life story! It looks so fun and beautiful! The skating had to be exhilarating! I loved imagining my husbands family doing similar things as his grandparents were from the Netherlands. I shared your floss tube with him. What a treasure. Thank you soo much for sharing your memories and pictures!
Thank you for this video and for the stories! I also grew up skating in the winter. Ottawa (my hometown) has a canal that freezes over every winter and some of my fondest memories are stopping by the beaver tail stand and sharing one with my sister (beavertails are kind of flat donuts shaped like a beaver’s tail, sometimes they are also called elephant ears) my oma had a harrowing story of falling through the ice one winter in Drenthe. Luckily there was a farmer nearby who saved her. And I lived in Amsterdam in 2012 when, exceptionally, the canals froze for a short while. The photographer Cris Toala Olivares took some amazing pictures from that time
Thank you Carmen! Oh boy - falling through the ice is so super scary... we'd have big holes in the ice sometimes, and you'd have to skate around them. It was quite scary...! :D
I have come to treasure your holiday and holiday music videos as part of my Christmas tradition! This was really wonderful. When I was a little girl, Disney had a movie called Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates. I loved it and this reminded me of it. And that cat is gorgeous ! ❤❤❤❤
Aw thank you Wendy, that's lovely to hear! I've never seen the Hans Brinker movie but now you mention it I do remember hearing about it! I never knew who Hans Brinker was (I think still most Dutch folks don't know who he was) but it's really amusing how his stories are famous in the US! I saw that the movie is on TH-cam so I might have a look at it later :D
Jacob, You are an incredible human being. So talented, so peaceful, and loving. Enjoyed the stories of your winter memories. Thank you for sharing with us. Merry Christmas.
Amazing music Jacob. Can't wait to hear your whole album! Thanks for sharing the beautiful winter pictures and pictures of you and your family growing up. It looks like it was a lot of fun!💝
Thank you so much Donna! :). We really had lots of fun in winter, and since my aunt lived right on the canal (you can see a photo of my mum, aunt, and grandmother in front of my aunt's house) we could go inside, warm up a bit, and then run out again :D.
Thank you for sharing those special memories with us. My Mom was from Maastricht (a war bride), she never said how she learned to skate, but she skated quite well. I don’t remember a lot of canals, etc. around Maastricht when I visited, except for the Meuse River which is a bit intimidating for skating! But it was a part of our winters when I was growing up in the Midwest (Illinois and Wisconsin) and when we moved to Colorado.⛸. A lovely video.
Oh that's so cool Trudy! The Maas (as we call it in the Netherlands) flows quite fast, and I've never seen it frozen over. Then again, I'm not from the south so I couldn't tell - but I'd take it that the smaller ponds and frozen ditches in the countryside would be perfect for skating though! :).
This is sweet and poetic, thank you for sharing your memories and photos and beautiful music. I never learned to skate, though i tried, and got sprains for trying. I think that if i had skates like the ones you have shown, i may have been successful. With no blades to balance on and no wobbly ankles, they look so sensible and not as intimidating. It would be nice to find some skates like that! Though it may be too late, i am now 65 (as of today!).
Happy Birthday Shari!!! And you're never too old to try something new - with some proper guidance, who knows, it might be a lot of fun!!! When you look at the photo of me "skating" you'll see just how terribly wobbly my ankles were - there's more of the side of my foot on the ice than actual blades. Yea, that wasn't really a "blades of glory" moment but I had a lot of fun! :P
This music is so lovely. My husband and son are both musicians and I was eager to find out the artist so I could share with them. It’s YOU and is not available yet. Can’t wait to get a copy next year..!!
Your co-host is adorable 😊 Thank you for the lovely video. Don't know if I have the coordination for skating. So can you still buy skates that attach to your shoes? Or do they recommend a full ice skate now? Have a great weekend!
Thank you!!! Mira is really sweet yes hehe :). And I do think you can still buy them, though these days "Norwegians" (the leather black boot with skate) or figure skating / hockey skates are much more common.
Absolutely lovely memories, thank you for sharing 🤗🤗
Thank you Joanne! :)
Loved seeing the windmills! Thanx for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed the video! The windmill is really pretty, and luckily still functioning :)
Thank you for Sharing Jacob!! Love your photography!! Beautiful!!
Thank you - glad you enjoyed it!!! :)
We had similar growing up experiences - only mine was in Minnesota in the US but skating was an intimate part of every winter. Have missed those times ever since moving away. What lovely images and memories of your family - so warm.
Thank you Peg! Glad you enjoyed the video :). I know it can get pretty cold in Minnesota - those ice winds are nothing to joke about! 🥶
That’s so interesting!! Thank you for sharing with us.
Thank you - glad you enjoyed it! :)
This so interesting I’m fascinated with the snow and the ice skating as you might remember I live in Puerto Rico even do I was born in NY not to many memories of cold winters and beautiful snow, I want to thank you for sharing this I love it. Great memories love everything.
Thank you Iris! :D
Oh Jacob, that was delightful.🙋🏼♀️🇦🇺
Thank you Gail! :D
I just loved hearing about where you grew up and the skating around the canals. Thank you for sharing your family pictures and memories!
Thank you Wendy - glad you enjoyed the video! :)
Such a wonderful remembrance to share. Thank you for sharing your life in one of my favorite countries in the world.
Thank you so much!!! :D
I loved hearing about your skating memories and seeing the beautiful pictures. Thank you for sharing.❄️
Thank you so much Teal :D
That was wonderful thank you.
Thank you Brenda!
Beautiful - Such lovely memories. Thanks for sharing
Thank you! :)
Thank you so much for sharing your winter memories and photos! Such a treat!!
Thank you Michael!
Thank you Jacob for the wonderful family photos. I also grew up skating though I could only skate forward, never figured out how to skate backward.
Thank you Sherry! Me neither - I know quite a few were able to do it but I was terrible at it. Also "stepping over" when going around a sharp corner was not something I was comfortable with.... I already found getting one skate in front of the other hard enough! :P
Winter memories are beautiful memories with all the trees lit up and fun snow days. We didn’t have ice skating where I live in the high desert but we did roller skate.
Oh that's so cool Ida! I wasn't good on roller skates at all... braking with those big speed stops on the toes terrified me so I just rammed myself into a wall and hoped for the best... :P
No wonder your speed skaters are so good in the Olympics! I love watching them skate. Beautiful pictures. What nice memories.❤
Thank you Susan! Yes, I guess there's a real culture of skating - and as a professional sport as well - Thialf is the biggest ice skating arena in the Netherlands, not far from where I was born - and lots of people go there to skate and train. It's quite cool! :D
So lovely Jacob! Thank you so much for sharing these!
Thank you! :)
Wonderful memories you shared! And the photos and the music at the end were beautiful - very touching ❤
Thank you Paula, glad you enjoyed! :)
I enjoyed hearing your memories.
Thank you!!!
Thank you Jacob for your amazing winter skating stories and how great to see you as a little “ Skater” who grew up to be a “ Stitcher”! I Loved all your family winter pictures! Thanks for sharing 🥰🧑🏻🦰🇨🇦
Aw thank you Marilyn! :D
Leuk, die herinneringen aan de sneeuw als kind. Ik heb niet veel geschaatst op natuurijs hier in het zuiden maar ik heb erg leuke herinneringen aan het sleeën. Ik kan me herinneren dat ik 1 keer op natuurijs heb geschaatst, dat was in 1979. Er waren wel ijsbanen in de buurt waar je kon gaan schaatsen maar dat heb ik eigenlijk nooit gedaan. Ik vond sleeën veel leuker. 😄
Fijn weekend Jacob! 🎄
Dank je Joanita! Ja in het zuiden natuurlijk niet al te veel natuurijs! 1979 was echt een extreme winter - heel Friesland lag toen ook in Januari onder een enorme deken sneeuw...! Heb dat natuurlijk als baby niet bewust meegemaakt maar herinner me wel veel winters met veel sneeuw! :D
Lovely memories and pics. I grew up in a little village outside of Dresden Germany called Malschendorf. In the village there was a large pond where people used to skate. There was a big hullabaloo when one or some boys put salt on the ice and made the surface mooshy.....lol...
Thank you Hanna! Oh yes, salt!!! We'd get terribly cross if a boat was stupid enough to sail through the fresh ice, break it up, and completely ruin the chance of getting a smooth surface ever again. It was awful trying to skate on those chips... :P
Yes, I am sure....not fun. @@ModernFolkEmbroidery
So interesting to hear about your winter memories. Lovely family photos. So enjoy discovering parts of your Advent design. Stay warm.
Thank you so much Susan - glad you're enjoying the countdown!!! :)
I have fond memories of jumping off of snowdrifts into the soft snow at the bottom and skating on the frozen tennis courts. The Rideau Canal through Ottawa was also a wonderful place to skate. Unfortunately with the change in weather the ice hasn’t been thick enough to skate. Thank you for sharing yours.
Thank you Nancy - I enjoyed reading your story! :)
Thank you for your video - it brought memories back from my Dad who grew up in Groningen and often talked about the years they could skate the canals.
Thank you Freda! Yes, up north we used to get quite a bit of ice!!! :)
Thank you for sharing the wonderful memories and photos ❤. I'm a little bit older than you lol, born in 1967 and love the memories I have as a child of the winter's here in Ontario Canada, lots of snow and skating outside and hot chocolate. I miss those days and wished we had snow like that again so I could make these memories with my grandchildren, but one can still hope 😊
Thank you Leah! Yes - I hope we'll get some ice again this year as well - would love to go out skating for a bit! :D
Thank you for sharing the pictures of your family in the winter. My father taught my sisters and I to skate at a park near our home. I think our skates were a Christmas gift one year. This is one of my favorite memories of my father.
Oh that's precious Cathy - those are the memories to treasure :D
Thank you Jakob…such a grand time in Village, growing up around sooo much beauty..
You have that same engaging smile…. ❤
Skating in the winter ❄️ and Roller skating in off seasons, lucky for us My Dads (one of 8, he had 12 siblings) had a Roller Rink … I loved dancing around … it was magical for me with the live organ … & a huge crystal ball hanging …
You’ve stirred up memories, of mine, Thank you ….
Love your kitty …
Stay safe
❄️🎄❄️🙏🌍
Blessings
Oh how cool Sharon! We don't have roller rinks over here (at least, not around where I grew up) but I've always loved seeing them in the movies and on TV...! :D
@@ModernFolkEmbroidery You would have loved this Jakob …🤗
Such fun & birthday party’s, Uncle Vince was awesome , so many memories ♥️
Blessings…
Beautiful. I loved your sharing.
Thank you Cheryl!
What fun to see some of your family pictures, Jacob! Speaking as one who never even learned to stand up on old-fashioned roller skates, I'm impressed. And I'm sure you've been told how much you resemble the lady who I assumed to be your mother.
As you can imagine, most parts of Texas never see snow, although ice storms are not uncommon in the northern part of the state. But we had a substantial snow in Dallas, must have been the winter of 1951-1952. Somewhere there' a photo of my mother or big sister pushing me around in the back yard in a child-sized rocking chair! Sleds were also uncommon, lol.
Loving your music, too.
Thank you so much Barbara! That's mom indeed! I look quite a bit like my mum and my sister as well, apparently. And I do take after my grandfather on my father's side too - so it's a weird mix of them! :D I'm really glad we don't get too many ice storms over here - not a cold wind fan at all! :D
Sigh, how nice to see you and your family in the pictures. I understand why you have such nice memories of winter and skating. Thanks for showing the skates up close. Because you got to keep your boots on your feet must have stayed nice and warm. Mine froze almost in minutes when I was young. 🥶
Thank you! Well - if you keep the shoes and the thick socks on, you're fine. I know some folks would even tie the skates to their wooden shoes...! They are quite practical that way :D
@@ModernFolkEmbroideryReally? Even to their wooden shoes. Those were some brave folks.
Yep@@alisoncaronflyingfree - we were even stranger in that we had wooden shoe skates as well! Here's some images on google (but you can search as well for "klompschaatsen" www.google.com/search?sca_esv=590241271&rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB886GB886&sxsrf=AM9HkKnlloGi1dYKJxX5de4rST2HUKoA3Q:1702408145161&q=klompschaats&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiyzoTGzIqDAxWt_rsIHXiIC44Q0pQJegQICRAB&biw=1270&bih=1358&dpr=2
The videos reminded me of an episode of Walt Disney. Skaters on a river in your neck of the woods.. Can't remember the title though. This was in the late sixties.😊
Oh cool! Someone in a comment here mentioned Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates from 1958? It's on TH-cam (though the title erroneously says it was 1985). It starred Tab Hunter as Hans Brinker :D
Thank you so much, this sent me right back to my childhood in the beginning of the 80’ies in Denmark. Really lovely, Jacob ❤
Oh that's so nice to hear Anne Kirstine! Thank you :)
I loved the video and music. Merry Christmas Jacob from B.C. Canada.
Thank you so much Rose!!!
Merry Christmas, Jacob. I love the song!!! Thank you so much for the Advent calendar and accompagning us this December. I look forward to the next few days to catching up with the sampler and take my time. Thank you also for the gift! It's the perfect sampler for a blessing sampler!! It will be my start on January 1st. I wish you some free relaxing time with your family and a very happy New Year.
It looks like we had a very similar childhood although you were born ten years later :) I had same first skates, just a bit different: there was no wood, but leather on top of the curbed blades :) I spent a lot of time skating with friends in winter… So many memories! Just yesterday my husband and I were saying to each other how happy was our childhood - full of freedom to go everywhere and explore :) Thank you for sharing your memories and photos of your family, it is precious! ❤️
Thank you Natalia! Yes - we really had a lot of freedom to do as we wished. Still, I think kids in the Netherlands have quite a bit of freedom to just get their bikes out and roam the cities and countryside freely - it's really cool how important a good and safe infrastructure is in such cases. I've never felt unsafe just setting out on my own :).
I am loving these brief episodes. Jacob. They are wonderful accompaniments to this Christmas stitching journey we are on. I am enjoying every minute of stitching and watching.
Aw thank you Susan - so good to hear!
Jacob, what beautiful memories to treasure…I so enjoyed learning a little bit about your childhood, beautiful family ♥️..skating was a big part of mine as well , NOT on those type of skates 😁 gorgeous photos Thank you
Thank you so much! I really hope we'll be able to do some skating again this year :D
I remember skating on the canal next the Richelieu river in Quebec. The big cracks in the ice - ugh. The sure skaters would have no problem skating over them but I had fallen because of the big ones and did not like getting hurt. So I'd have to skate with a boyfriend holding my hand! I did not like having cold feet either. Hence, I'd rather be cross-country skiing. I loved that. Being in the woods gliding over the snow. Thanks for sharing your memories. 🙂
I've never done any skying Louise - but it does look quite amazing. The cracks in the ice are scary - on the lakes, the cracks would actually move and you'd have to get speed, then jump over the crack - which was absolutely terrifying haha! At night, the lakes would sing and sometimes you'd hear this really eerie sound of the ice.... it's a little bit like whalesong - I'm sure you must have heard that as well growing up!
Winter memories are so very special! There is nothing like being out in the cold and then coming into a warm loving home. Thank you for sharing your memories and pictures. You look like your father! Now let's hope that we have an old fashioned ice filled winter this season here in The Netherlands. ❄️
Thank you Heidi - and yes, coming back into the warmth is so lovely! My grandmother, mum and aunt are outside my aunt's house - they lived just next to the bridge seen in most of those pictures. So we'd be able to get back in, warm up, and then run out again! :D.
Thank you for another wonderful christmas memory to cherish. You are really the top for floss tuber this time of year.😊
Aw thank you so much!!! :)
Thank you for sharing your happy Winter memories in photographs set to beautiful music with us! Skating around the provinces must be a tremendous sight to see! ⛸️⛸️⛸️
Thank you so much! Skating on natural ice is honestly the best - gives you such a sense of freedom! :)
What a treasure to see a snippet of your life story! It looks so fun and beautiful! The skating had to be exhilarating! I loved imagining my husbands family doing similar things as his grandparents were from the Netherlands. I shared your floss tube with him. What a treasure. Thank you soo much for sharing your memories and pictures!
Thank you Susan - it really was a lot of fun indeed :D.
Thank you for this video and for the stories! I also grew up skating in the winter. Ottawa (my hometown) has a canal that freezes over every winter and some of my fondest memories are stopping by the beaver tail stand and sharing one with my sister (beavertails are kind of flat donuts shaped like a beaver’s tail, sometimes they are also called elephant ears) my oma had a harrowing story of falling through the ice one winter in Drenthe. Luckily there was a farmer nearby who saved her. And I lived in Amsterdam in 2012 when, exceptionally, the canals froze for a short while. The photographer Cris Toala Olivares took some amazing pictures from that time
Thank you Carmen! Oh boy - falling through the ice is so super scary... we'd have big holes in the ice sometimes, and you'd have to skate around them. It was quite scary...! :D
I have come to treasure your holiday and holiday music videos as part of my Christmas tradition! This was really wonderful. When I was a little girl, Disney had a movie called Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates. I loved it and this reminded me of it. And that cat is gorgeous ! ❤❤❤❤
Aw thank you Wendy, that's lovely to hear! I've never seen the Hans Brinker movie but now you mention it I do remember hearing about it! I never knew who Hans Brinker was (I think still most Dutch folks don't know who he was) but it's really amusing how his stories are famous in the US! I saw that the movie is on TH-cam so I might have a look at it later :D
Jacob, You are an incredible human being. So talented, so peaceful, and loving. Enjoyed the stories of your winter memories. Thank you for sharing with us. Merry Christmas.
Aw thank you...! Glad you enjoyed the video :)
Amazing music Jacob. Can't wait to hear your whole album! Thanks for sharing the beautiful winter pictures and pictures of you and your family growing up. It looks like it was a lot of fun!💝
Thank you so much Donna! :). We really had lots of fun in winter, and since my aunt lived right on the canal (you can see a photo of my mum, aunt, and grandmother in front of my aunt's house) we could go inside, warm up a bit, and then run out again :D.
Thanks for sharing your pictures and memories. I remember the winter of 1979. We had a lot of snow in Illinois that year.
Thank you for sharing those special memories with us. My Mom was from Maastricht (a war bride), she never said how she learned to skate, but she skated quite well. I don’t remember a lot of canals, etc. around Maastricht when I visited, except for the Meuse River which is a bit intimidating for skating! But it was a part of our winters when I was growing up in the Midwest (Illinois and Wisconsin) and when we moved to Colorado.⛸. A lovely video.
Oh that's so cool Trudy! The Maas (as we call it in the Netherlands) flows quite fast, and I've never seen it frozen over. Then again, I'm not from the south so I couldn't tell - but I'd take it that the smaller ponds and frozen ditches in the countryside would be perfect for skating though! :).
@@ModernFolkEmbroidery I had to chuckle, I've always called it the Maas; but the Americans don't know what I'm referring to 😂
This is sweet and poetic, thank you for sharing your memories and photos and beautiful music. I never learned to skate, though i tried, and got sprains for trying. I think that if i had skates like the ones you have shown, i may have been successful. With no blades to balance on and no wobbly ankles, they look so sensible and not as intimidating. It would be nice to find some skates like that! Though it may be too late, i am now 65 (as of today!).
Happy Birthday Shari!!! And you're never too old to try something new - with some proper guidance, who knows, it might be a lot of fun!!! When you look at the photo of me "skating" you'll see just how terribly wobbly my ankles were - there's more of the side of my foot on the ice than actual blades. Yea, that wasn't really a "blades of glory" moment but I had a lot of fun! :P
Beautiful memories, no idea what happened to my phone but no matter what I did I was not able to see the photos unless I hit the fast forward button
Thank you so much Aura!!! :)
This music is so lovely. My husband and son are both musicians and I was eager to find out the artist so I could share with them. It’s YOU and is not available yet. Can’t wait to get a copy next year..!!
I loved all your wonderful family photos! Thank you for the beautiful share! Oh...and Jacob! What is your little girl's name?
Thank you! Our kittie's name is Mira. :D
Your co-host is adorable 😊
Thank you for the lovely video. Don't know if I have the coordination for skating.
So can you still buy skates that attach to your shoes? Or do they recommend a full ice skate now?
Have a great weekend!
Thank you!!! Mira is really sweet yes hehe :). And I do think you can still buy them, though these days "Norwegians" (the leather black boot with skate) or figure skating / hockey skates are much more common.