I hear ya Mayor SusieQ on those games we played as kids. We made up our own versions with our own set of rules for things like tag, baseball and such. I remember you could hit a home run if the ball went over the clothes line in the air, but if it went into the weeds, it was an out, because the game had to stop while everyone went to look for the ball. And first base was twice as far to run as the other bases, because of the lack of players, made it a bit more fair. We played croquet every day after school, till we broke all the mallets. We made forts, climbed trees, picked blackberries in season. Heck none of my kids even know blackberries grow in Florida. Video games have ruined a whole generation. Oh, and we went in, when the skeeters came out! …or on Sunday, when my Grandma blew her old conductor’s whistle from the back porch steps, and yelled out “Lassie’s on!”
Wow, gatorpaw…nice memories. I think I might throw in all the times my buddies and I would take our scratch-built balsa wood airplanes out to the big grassy fields, and fly (and crash) them! Good clean fun for sure! :*0
2 completed passes made a first down in street football. In VT we could get amazingly far through many towns and villages and never leave the deer paths that became the “original” mountain trails on a 3-speed Columbia bikes.
Video games didn’t ruin a generation…the parents who stopped going outside with their kids ruined their own kids. I can’t go to the excuse of parents where both have to work, one maybe two jobs, just to make ends meet and are not able to go out with their kids. I worked two jobs and She-wolf one, yet I coached soccer and baseball, all 5 kids for 17 years.
When we played video games, it was still quality times because of the other stuff we did.
Those were the days !!!! And such good memories! Hopscotch, playing marbles with my brothers. Loved summer cause you could stay outside longer!! Alot of fun for sure!
Summers in Rochester, NY, were hot and very muggy (super humid). I remember playing outside,and the hot afternoon sun would shine down on my jet black hair, and those friggin little black winged bugs would fly above my head in a circular pattern, like a little cyclone, ever circling higher and higher, gathering more and more bugs…I remember those darn bugs!
Ahhhh, yes, Chip, the ever loving lil gnats. That when ya were sweating like crazy and irritated enough would circle around and around until they got in your eyes, mouth, etc. Didn’t matter how hard ya swatted at em either, they were never ending. LOL!
We had a local hangout when someone became old enough to drive. It was the Eat-n-Park parking lot. Everyone loaded up their cars with friends, drove to the parking lot, ordered burgers, etc. Then just hung out and shot the breeze with everyone. Today, you would be arrested for loitering! LOL!
Wolf, my parents NEVER went outside with me. They only went to one school function before I graduated. I was mostly raised by my grandma, and she couldn’t even drive a car. But that didn’t stop me, I would walk to town, or ride my bike. Heck, when we left the house, we weren’t expected back till supper anyway. We were free to roam and roam we did. Life was good to a kid in the late 50’s and early 60’s. Bad stuff could still happen, and did, but life was good and full of fun. Every Saturday downtown movie theater only .35 to get in and a coke was only a dime.
And that is back when they delivered the stuff ya ordered right to your car. LOL! Even had a tray they brought out to hang on the drivers side window the the order. LOL! And how about those DRIVE-IN movies! LOL! They are few and far between in this area anymore.
gatorpaw, Sundays we went to visit the Grandparents after church service. Had a sit down dinner with the entire family. Grandma always gave us a dollar of the next weeks collection plate. Then a dollar to go to the show on Saturday the next weekend. That got us into the show, and sometimes we paid and stayed twice if we liked the movie, and we got a big bag of penny candy at the local drug store candy counter. Try that today! LOL! The local theater just closed up our way. To many people downloading movies or renting them.
Our parents never were out with us. It was just what we did. Stayed outside and played. Today, so many miss out on whats most important and it isn’t the STUFF, it’s the quality time with family and friends that are most important. Memories are a good thing. And ya ain’t taking none of the “STUFF”, with ya that’s for sure.
My Dad and Mom would bring the BBQ out to the drive-in movie. My Dad and Grandpa would start grilling hamburgers and hot dogs around 5PM or so, a couple of hours before dusk. I can still smell that beautiful aroma, out there amongst those little hills covered in crushed grey rocks. I’m getting all sentimental here folks. And hungry, too!
We had a couple of places like that Mayor, one was called the Freez-ette and that was the one everyone went to after school. You pushed a button to order at your car, like Sonic today. My friend who was 16 and had her own car would gather change from everyone, till she got .50 cents at least and then we were set for a couple days at least, we’d drive through town to the Phil & Nez and then back to the Freez-ette. They were the 2 local hangouts. “ridin’ around” listening to the AM radio, FM wasn’t in use then. Friday night it was off to one of several Drive-In movie places in Orlando. We usually went to the South Trail. Good grief those were fun times.
We’d always have chicken for dinner on Sunday after church. Of course every dinner was a sit down one at our house. We didn’t start eatin in front of the tv till the late 60’s and even then, never when my parents were there. Dad’s job took him all over the country and mom usually went with him, so I was home with grandma. Till the summer when I got to go with them for at least some of it. Getting to eat out was a big deal, not like today when kids think nothing of going out to eat. It was a treat for us back in the day.
And all i ever did was bale hay, Split firewood, Plow the fields, Bring in the crops, Feed the cattle, Stoke the pot bellied stove, Run to the outhouse, Shovel snow. Go to a dam catholic school and cry at Christmas.
You just wonder, and also hope, that our children, grandchildren, etc. will have good and fond memories of their days goan by! :-) Guess there is something to say for the making of good memories while we can!
matt, I bet you a very strong person being brought up that way! Farm life is tough but we all need good farmers for sure! We have cattle farmers , beef, and milk herds, around here. I have helped out with milking time and your right, it ain’t a picnic. LOL! Some with machines and some by hand. But so sorry for your Christmas memories with tears. But all the sweat, tears, and things we go through in life, make and build the character’s, that we are! :-)
They certainly have more activities for girls now than they did back when I was a girl. (which was nothing!) My daughter lettered in basketball, softball, and volleyball in high school and Volleyball got her a scholarship to college where she is going to be a senior this fall. So I guess they have their memories too, just different from ours. At least I can say I never missed a single game of hers… till she got to college anyway.
Speaking of the drive-in we have one still operational about 45 min. from the house it’s in Beaufort, S.C. I just found that out so the main squeeze & I will be checking that out & the movie too!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Will give you an update when we go. We use to go to town to the afternoon matinee, then there was the skating rink, slumber parties!!! Oh the Memories!!!! :0):0) On Sundays we’d eat, then had to take a nap (so they thought) then we all piled in the car & went for an afternoon ride stopped for a soda & peanuts. Anyone remember when you’d take the soda bottles back to the store & got enuf change to buy a mess of candy or an ice cream bar??? WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve fed calfs and hauled hay and stacked it, and milked cows too. My dad’s job took him to Utah one summer and I met a wonderful family there who invited me into their home, and the next summer I was back for an even longer stay. That was when I was 14 or 15 and well I’m a grandma now, and we are still friends and visit one another as often as time and money will allow. It was my love of horses that got me the original invite. I was invited to go horseback riding with the kids of one of the guys my dad was working with. We became BFF’s.
Anne, my grandmother ran and owned the coal mind company store. We used to love going there on the weekends to load up the pop cooler for her and we would get to have a bottle of chocolate soda. That is back when she kept a tab running for the local miners. And for the most part people were honest enough to always pay her without fail.
Growing up in Pa. we had a drug store that made soda fountain drinks and ya sat on the lil swivel stools at the counter. Then their was a Mikes Lunch that made the best burgers in town and had the lil juke boxes at the table where ya put a nickel in per song and a quarter got ya five. LOL!
Goan are the days, but the memories linger on! LOL!
Watch out at the drive-in, lol! I’m not to old to remember those days. LOL!
When I was younger I would go spend summers with my Grandma in the country. In the morning we’d eat & then walked down this dirt road that seemed to never end to a field of peas & butter beans, She would go down one row & I down the other and picked until our buckets were full then carried em back to the house, ate lunch, then spent the afternoon shelling our peas/butter beans, then she’d blanch them & put em in the freezer. I usually went & collected the eggs from the hen house, didn’t mind but there was a rooster that always gave me a run for my money!! LOL !!! YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Always had fun ay Granny”s house.
Something else you don’t see much of is diners. I always thought they were neat hangout places. I think there’s more up North than here. I do remember the drugstores that had soda fountains & of course their blue plate specials! LOL!! I actually learned to hool -la-hoop in a Woolworth store that had a soda fountain in it. One time we were walking around in there & someone had let out a parakeet & it was flying aound loose in the store everyone went running outside.. TOO FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh Anne, that rooster reminded me of the turkey my best friend’s dad used to have along with some chickens. That turkey was soooo mean, I got to where I’d carry a cat with me tucked up under my arm and when that ol’ turkey would start for me, I’d sling that hapless cat at him and run like hell. Well, it got to to the front door anyway.
I meant to say it got ME to the front door. Anyway, My mom used to work at a little diner that was almost across the street for us. It was the type that had car hops. (girls that took your order and brought out your foot to the cars.) She’s got some pictures of the outfits they’d wear, godawful looking things they were too.
Yes indeed Gatorpaw the outfits were awful but, were probably very stylish back then. When I was younger I had to wear those awful saddle oxfords & anklets. I hated those shoes & socks. YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those turkeys are MEAN I was babysitting for a friend one afternoon, they lived in the country and the neighbor had a turkey. I was inside with the baby & heard this pecking noise well checked it out & it was that turkey pecking at the window so I closed the curtains & he wouldn’t leave. So I decided I would confront him & went outside Only to be chased around in the yard. Just barely made it back to the house!! What an afternoon that was. I was being held prisoner by a TURKEY!!!! LOL Guess that’s it for me. See you all tomorrow!!! Have a nice evening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :0) :0)
Hey All! These posts here today and tonight have to be some of the best ones that I can remember. They brought back some very good memories for me, too. God Bless and Good Night…Good night, Anne…good night, SueQ…good night, John Boy…
Wow! almost 50 posts today, that must be a record. You’re right Anne, those turkeys are mean as anything. Some roosters are too. But that’s a story for tomorrow.
Good night all.
Good Morning Burk and the rest of you sleepy heads!! :0) Me too Burk!!! Ya’ll have a Super Day will check back in later!! Keep those smiles going today :0) :0) Thanks to all for the memories yesterday! All the posts were awesome…
Today, is a great time to start making new memories! Make sure to make them with lots of :-)’s! We keep a lil ol notebook of memories. And during the holidays it is fun looking back at what was said and done in past years. Sometimes we tend to forget! LOL!
Or would like to forget! LOL!
Wow some great memories, I remember firecrackers under tin cans, dinner on the ground with fresh made fried chicken and corn on the cob. Desert was often homade icecream cranked out by evryone takin turns and mindin the salt and ice. Singin’ in the church choir with a robe made by my grandmother, palyin’ marbles and yo- yos not to mention hula hoops, Turkish Taffy, Bit o Honey, Sugar Dadies and Nesbitts! Runnin’ fer miles pullin’ my lil sister in my Radio Flyer and no one ever locked their doors! Then layin out at night on a blanket with the whole family and counting shootin’ stars and looking for Sputnik. What is the measure of a good life? God bless you all and smile! :~D
July 9th, 2009 - 12:40 pm
Sadly I think I’ll be needing this ): Stupid donuts.
July 9th, 2009 - 1:08 pm
Will it measure up to my standards?
July 9th, 2009 - 1:15 pm
Inch by inch! :-)
July 9th, 2009 - 1:34 pm
I hear ya Mayor SusieQ on those games we played as kids. We made up our own versions with our own set of rules for things like tag, baseball and such. I remember you could hit a home run if the ball went over the clothes line in the air, but if it went into the weeds, it was an out, because the game had to stop while everyone went to look for the ball. And first base was twice as far to run as the other bases, because of the lack of players, made it a bit more fair. We played croquet every day after school, till we broke all the mallets. We made forts, climbed trees, picked blackberries in season. Heck none of my kids even know blackberries grow in Florida. Video games have ruined a whole generation. Oh, and we went in, when the skeeters came out! …or on Sunday, when my Grandma blew her old conductor’s whistle from the back porch steps, and yelled out “Lassie’s on!”
July 9th, 2009 - 1:39 pm
Top 5 YEA!!!!! Thank you all. Now to get measured up!
July 9th, 2009 - 1:57 pm
Wow, gatorpaw…nice memories. I think I might throw in all the times my buddies and I would take our scratch-built balsa wood airplanes out to the big grassy fields, and fly (and crash) them! Good clean fun for sure! :*0
July 9th, 2009 - 2:12 pm
2 completed passes made a first down in street football. In VT we could get amazingly far through many towns and villages and never leave the deer paths that became the “original” mountain trails on a 3-speed Columbia bikes.
Video games didn’t ruin a generation…the parents who stopped going outside with their kids ruined their own kids. I can’t go to the excuse of parents where both have to work, one maybe two jobs, just to make ends meet and are not able to go out with their kids. I worked two jobs and She-wolf one, yet I coached soccer and baseball, all 5 kids for 17 years.
When we played video games, it was still quality times because of the other stuff we did.
We had to come in when the street lights went on
July 9th, 2009 - 2:55 pm
I remember the street lights, too…
July 9th, 2009 - 2:59 pm
in for 1!
July 9th, 2009 - 3:00 pm
if they don’t measure up
July 9th, 2009 - 3:26 pm
I look slimmer if you measure me in Metric…
July 9th, 2009 - 3:37 pm
I remember growing up in Baltimore City, dead end street, playing Po-Ke-No for money under the street lights. Good memories.
July 9th, 2009 - 3:50 pm
Those were the days !!!! And such good memories! Hopscotch, playing marbles with my brothers. Loved summer cause you could stay outside longer!! Alot of fun for sure!
July 9th, 2009 - 4:16 pm
Summers in Rochester, NY, were hot and very muggy (super humid). I remember playing outside,and the hot afternoon sun would shine down on my jet black hair, and those friggin little black winged bugs would fly above my head in a circular pattern, like a little cyclone, ever circling higher and higher, gathering more and more bugs…I remember those darn bugs!
July 9th, 2009 - 4:27 pm
Ahhhh, yes, Chip, the ever loving lil gnats. That when ya were sweating like crazy and irritated enough would circle around and around until they got in your eyes, mouth, etc. Didn’t matter how hard ya swatted at em either, they were never ending. LOL!
July 9th, 2009 - 4:30 pm
Look at all the good stuff kids are missing not playing outside all the time. Who doesn’t love a good gnat story? LOL!
July 9th, 2009 - 4:33 pm
Those are the ones!!! Sweating like crazy, irritated, never ending…that definately sums it up!
July 9th, 2009 - 4:34 pm
Gnat’s right, Mayor SueQ! LOL!
July 9th, 2009 - 4:43 pm
We had a local hangout when someone became old enough to drive. It was the Eat-n-Park parking lot. Everyone loaded up their cars with friends, drove to the parking lot, ordered burgers, etc. Then just hung out and shot the breeze with everyone. Today, you would be arrested for loitering! LOL!
July 9th, 2009 - 4:43 pm
Wolf, my parents NEVER went outside with me. They only went to one school function before I graduated. I was mostly raised by my grandma, and she couldn’t even drive a car. But that didn’t stop me, I would walk to town, or ride my bike. Heck, when we left the house, we weren’t expected back till supper anyway. We were free to roam and roam we did. Life was good to a kid in the late 50’s and early 60’s. Bad stuff could still happen, and did, but life was good and full of fun. Every Saturday downtown movie theater only .35 to get in and a coke was only a dime.
July 9th, 2009 - 4:45 pm
And that is back when they delivered the stuff ya ordered right to your car. LOL! Even had a tray they brought out to hang on the drivers side window the the order. LOL! And how about those DRIVE-IN movies! LOL! They are few and far between in this area anymore.
July 9th, 2009 - 4:53 pm
gatorpaw, Sundays we went to visit the Grandparents after church service. Had a sit down dinner with the entire family. Grandma always gave us a dollar of the next weeks collection plate. Then a dollar to go to the show on Saturday the next weekend. That got us into the show, and sometimes we paid and stayed twice if we liked the movie, and we got a big bag of penny candy at the local drug store candy counter. Try that today! LOL! The local theater just closed up our way. To many people downloading movies or renting them.
Our parents never were out with us. It was just what we did. Stayed outside and played. Today, so many miss out on whats most important and it isn’t the STUFF, it’s the quality time with family and friends that are most important. Memories are a good thing. And ya ain’t taking none of the “STUFF”, with ya that’s for sure.
July 9th, 2009 - 4:54 pm
My Dad and Mom would bring the BBQ out to the drive-in movie. My Dad and Grandpa would start grilling hamburgers and hot dogs around 5PM or so, a couple of hours before dusk. I can still smell that beautiful aroma, out there amongst those little hills covered in crushed grey rocks. I’m getting all sentimental here folks. And hungry, too!
July 9th, 2009 - 4:55 pm
We had a couple of places like that Mayor, one was called the Freez-ette and that was the one everyone went to after school. You pushed a button to order at your car, like Sonic today. My friend who was 16 and had her own car would gather change from everyone, till she got .50 cents at least and then we were set for a couple days at least, we’d drive through town to the Phil & Nez and then back to the Freez-ette. They were the 2 local hangouts. “ridin’ around” listening to the AM radio, FM wasn’t in use then. Friday night it was off to one of several Drive-In movie places in Orlando. We usually went to the South Trail. Good grief those were fun times.
July 9th, 2009 - 4:57 pm
I’m feelin ya, gatorpaw and SueQ…least we still have the memories, huh?
July 9th, 2009 - 5:06 pm
We’d always have chicken for dinner on Sunday after church. Of course every dinner was a sit down one at our house. We didn’t start eatin in front of the tv till the late 60’s and even then, never when my parents were there. Dad’s job took him all over the country and mom usually went with him, so I was home with grandma. Till the summer when I got to go with them for at least some of it. Getting to eat out was a big deal, not like today when kids think nothing of going out to eat. It was a treat for us back in the day.
July 9th, 2009 - 5:12 pm
And all i ever did was bale hay, Split firewood, Plow the fields, Bring in the crops, Feed the cattle, Stoke the pot bellied stove, Run to the outhouse, Shovel snow. Go to a dam catholic school and cry at Christmas.
July 9th, 2009 - 5:14 pm
You just wonder, and also hope, that our children, grandchildren, etc. will have good and fond memories of their days goan by! :-) Guess there is something to say for the making of good memories while we can!
July 9th, 2009 - 5:27 pm
matt, I bet you a very strong person being brought up that way! Farm life is tough but we all need good farmers for sure! We have cattle farmers , beef, and milk herds, around here. I have helped out with milking time and your right, it ain’t a picnic. LOL! Some with machines and some by hand. But so sorry for your Christmas memories with tears. But all the sweat, tears, and things we go through in life, make and build the character’s, that we are! :-)
July 9th, 2009 - 5:30 pm
They certainly have more activities for girls now than they did back when I was a girl. (which was nothing!) My daughter lettered in basketball, softball, and volleyball in high school and Volleyball got her a scholarship to college where she is going to be a senior this fall. So I guess they have their memories too, just different from ours. At least I can say I never missed a single game of hers… till she got to college anyway.
July 9th, 2009 - 5:37 pm
Yes, it is sometimes the, ” Quality” of the time , not the “Quantity” of time spent with friends and love ones that matters the most!
July 9th, 2009 - 5:39 pm
Speaking of the drive-in we have one still operational about 45 min. from the house it’s in Beaufort, S.C. I just found that out so the main squeeze & I will be checking that out & the movie too!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Will give you an update when we go. We use to go to town to the afternoon matinee, then there was the skating rink, slumber parties!!! Oh the Memories!!!! :0):0) On Sundays we’d eat, then had to take a nap (so they thought) then we all piled in the car & went for an afternoon ride stopped for a soda & peanuts. Anyone remember when you’d take the soda bottles back to the store & got enuf change to buy a mess of candy or an ice cream bar??? WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
July 9th, 2009 - 5:39 pm
I’ve fed calfs and hauled hay and stacked it, and milked cows too. My dad’s job took him to Utah one summer and I met a wonderful family there who invited me into their home, and the next summer I was back for an even longer stay. That was when I was 14 or 15 and well I’m a grandma now, and we are still friends and visit one another as often as time and money will allow. It was my love of horses that got me the original invite. I was invited to go horseback riding with the kids of one of the guys my dad was working with. We became BFF’s.
July 9th, 2009 - 5:40 pm
Funny, how we all measure up a little different, but we are all alike in so many ways!
July 9th, 2009 - 5:44 pm
Anne, I remember doing that, and the deposit you got back was only .02 cents. Now, you can’t even find them in glass bottles any more.
July 9th, 2009 - 5:49 pm
Anne, my grandmother ran and owned the coal mind company store. We used to love going there on the weekends to load up the pop cooler for her and we would get to have a bottle of chocolate soda. That is back when she kept a tab running for the local miners. And for the most part people were honest enough to always pay her without fail.
Growing up in Pa. we had a drug store that made soda fountain drinks and ya sat on the lil swivel stools at the counter. Then their was a Mikes Lunch that made the best burgers in town and had the lil juke boxes at the table where ya put a nickel in per song and a quarter got ya five. LOL!
Goan are the days, but the memories linger on! LOL!
Watch out at the drive-in, lol! I’m not to old to remember those days. LOL!
July 9th, 2009 - 5:50 pm
When I was younger I would go spend summers with my Grandma in the country. In the morning we’d eat & then walked down this dirt road that seemed to never end to a field of peas & butter beans, She would go down one row & I down the other and picked until our buckets were full then carried em back to the house, ate lunch, then spent the afternoon shelling our peas/butter beans, then she’d blanch them & put em in the freezer. I usually went & collected the eggs from the hen house, didn’t mind but there was a rooster that always gave me a run for my money!! LOL !!! YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Always had fun ay Granny”s house.
July 9th, 2009 - 5:53 pm
And that’s how our stories go! Sweet Memories of a wonderful, or put near, past! What’s not to love! :-)
July 9th, 2009 - 5:55 pm
I am remembering my mothers, mother, always saying, “haint it so”! LOL!
July 9th, 2009 - 6:00 pm
Something else you don’t see much of is diners. I always thought they were neat hangout places. I think there’s more up North than here. I do remember the drugstores that had soda fountains & of course their blue plate specials! LOL!! I actually learned to hool -la-hoop in a Woolworth store that had a soda fountain in it. One time we were walking around in there & someone had let out a parakeet & it was flying aound loose in the store everyone went running outside.. TOO FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 9th, 2009 - 6:00 pm
Oh Anne, that rooster reminded me of the turkey my best friend’s dad used to have along with some chickens. That turkey was soooo mean, I got to where I’d carry a cat with me tucked up under my arm and when that ol’ turkey would start for me, I’d sling that hapless cat at him and run like hell. Well, it got to to the front door anyway.
July 9th, 2009 - 6:05 pm
I meant to say it got ME to the front door. Anyway, My mom used to work at a little diner that was almost across the street for us. It was the type that had car hops. (girls that took your order and brought out your foot to the cars.) She’s got some pictures of the outfits they’d wear, godawful looking things they were too.
July 9th, 2009 - 6:06 pm
LOL, I better start proof reading these posts of mine.
July 9th, 2009 - 6:13 pm
I am famous for typo’s gatorpaw. Least we remember the T-shirt offer on Darn Free! LOL!
July 9th, 2009 - 6:15 pm
Good Night, my friends! Pleasant memories and sweet dreams be with you all! :-)
July 9th, 2009 - 6:27 pm
Good Nite Susie Q, Sweet dreams & pleasant memories to you also!!! :0)
July 9th, 2009 - 6:37 pm
Yes indeed Gatorpaw the outfits were awful but, were probably very stylish back then. When I was younger I had to wear those awful saddle oxfords & anklets. I hated those shoes & socks. YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those turkeys are MEAN I was babysitting for a friend one afternoon, they lived in the country and the neighbor had a turkey. I was inside with the baby & heard this pecking noise well checked it out & it was that turkey pecking at the window so I closed the curtains & he wouldn’t leave. So I decided I would confront him & went outside Only to be chased around in the yard. Just barely made it back to the house!! What an afternoon that was. I was being held prisoner by a TURKEY!!!! LOL Guess that’s it for me. See you all tomorrow!!! Have a nice evening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :0) :0)
July 9th, 2009 - 7:05 pm
Hey All! These posts here today and tonight have to be some of the best ones that I can remember. They brought back some very good memories for me, too. God Bless and Good Night…Good night, Anne…good night, SueQ…good night, John Boy…
July 9th, 2009 - 8:20 pm
Wow! almost 50 posts today, that must be a record. You’re right Anne, those turkeys are mean as anything. Some roosters are too. But that’s a story for tomorrow.
Good night all.
July 10th, 2009 - 3:39 am
Good morning all, slept on a pillow of good memories last night.
July 10th, 2009 - 6:13 am
Good Morning Burk and the rest of you sleepy heads!! :0) Me too Burk!!! Ya’ll have a Super Day will check back in later!! Keep those smiles going today :0) :0) Thanks to all for the memories yesterday! All the posts were awesome…
July 10th, 2009 - 6:22 am
Today, is a great time to start making new memories! Make sure to make them with lots of :-)’s! We keep a lil ol notebook of memories. And during the holidays it is fun looking back at what was said and done in past years. Sometimes we tend to forget! LOL!
Or would like to forget! LOL!
July 10th, 2009 - 6:49 am
Wow some great memories, I remember firecrackers under tin cans, dinner on the ground with fresh made fried chicken and corn on the cob. Desert was often homade icecream cranked out by evryone takin turns and mindin the salt and ice. Singin’ in the church choir with a robe made by my grandmother, palyin’ marbles and yo- yos not to mention hula hoops, Turkish Taffy, Bit o Honey, Sugar Dadies and Nesbitts! Runnin’ fer miles pullin’ my lil sister in my Radio Flyer and no one ever locked their doors! Then layin out at night on a blanket with the whole family and counting shootin’ stars and looking for Sputnik. What is the measure of a good life? God bless you all and smile! :~D
July 10th, 2009 - 11:21 am
Thats beautiful David! :~)