Slip-and-Slide

Pushing eighty? Well, so what!
We're like a pair of challenged
kids early out of school
on this knife-edge windy day
ample snow still on the ground
in nature's notional tip to
spring, the freeze-and-thaw
has turned the forest trails
to sheet ice, and we tread
not-so-sure-footed whooping
with laughter as our two little
dogs slip and slide and we do 
too, but remain upright both
downhill and uphill, the sun
overhead beaming approval.