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Joe
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Date Posted: 10:32:19 10/23/05 Sun
In reply to:
Beth
's message, "Re: Remembrances" on 04:58:05 10/23/05 Sun
I can't believe no one has mentioned playing over at Jerry's old house across the road.
sliding down the tin roof and learning not to let your butt rest on the tin on the way down or the nails would tear your pants, something the cousins learned the hard way!
playing around and in the ponds, ours and Jerry's, rolling or sliding down the damn by Jerry's pond and having to watch out for those nasty yellow sticker plants at the bottom.
crawdad hunting and tadpole safaries.
making magic potions using bug parts and cesspool substance.
keeping the managerie on the front porch including snakes lizards and turtles.
the rock quarries, hunting collared lizards there, laying on
"The Rock"
climbing all the trees and swinging on the rope,,, falling off the rope a lot.
making forts in the hay grazer in the back garden and with straw after ray harvested the wheat
playing in the wheat trucks and chewing raw wheat YUCK!
getting up on winter mornings and standing on my bed with a dozen blankets over my head and shoulders playing with the frost on the inside of the window, then running to stand in front of one of the space heaters or the wood stove.
making peanut butter and jelly sandwitches and carrying water in bottles down to the trees,, or to the corner and the trees south of their, the water was always hot by the time we drank it, and the jelly soaking through the bread on the sandwitches.
the boys hole! making clay balls and having battles. standing on the rim and dodging while everyone took turns throwing at me.
clod fights in the fields after ray plowed.
Dads micky mouse boots.
Dad helping jody and I make little electroning thingies that squeaked different tones in the earplug when you hooked it up different
Dad teaching me the definition of a parabolic curve and helping me make a "BIG EAR" for a science project. we never finished it but we did get it to work.
learning to target shoot.
playing flies and grounders in the big yard
hide and seek
playing frizbee
playing under the light and how the trees looked like spider webs behind the light in the winter.
going out on the days when in rained all day long and playing in the ditches and mudsinker places in the fields.
going to town on saturdays, trashing in the alley ways and going to hobby shop and ben franklins five and dime.
taking dad his lunch and picking up the check through that window at ground level.
the lock shop.
all the bicycles
gardening, picking green beans and asparagus.
pancake eating contests which phil always won.
oatmeal and hot chocolate on cold weekend mornings
icycles everywhere
The longer I do this the more I think of,, could probly go on for a while but I'll stop here for now.
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