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Grand Poohbah
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Jun 23, 2007 at 06:07 PM
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<font color="purple">Looking for more positives .....
Fishing with my dad and uncle Lloyde... Riding with my dad on his Harley... Going to the piers/docks with my dad and Uncle Lloyde...especially Xmas eve to get mom's gifts... Going to airports with my dad to watch planes... I continued this tradition with my kids.... Going to the ocean with my family... Family vacations to VT and NH... The month I spent in Mexcio when I was 12... Trip to Disney, FL... Ice skating on the cranberry bogs... even tho once I split my chin and needed stitches... Late night swimming... Field trips to great places like Plymouth Plantation and Boston Aquarium... Picking flowers for an elderly lady who give me candy for giving her flowers.... WOW! I am surprised but delighted that I was able to think of so many so quickly.... What are some of your favorite childhood memories? </font> __________________ Melinda  Today, NOW! Is the time to tell that someone you love them.....  because tomorrow just might be too late! 
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Jun 23, 2007 at 06:51 PM
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ice skating
sledding sailing on the river floating down the river sneaking into the fort sticking bubble gum on the back of a penny to get gum for free( do not tell police...we were young) youth center................... my best friend street partys ( picnics) hanging out the window at night talking to kids across the street field days at labor day shopping with my mom watching fire works across river in Canada I could go on but i will stop LMAO |
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Jun 24, 2007 at 09:47 AM
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Camping (tent/sleeping bag) with family (I always ending up with the air mattress that would deflate during the night)
Riding the monorail and eating lunch at the top of the Space Needle during the 1960 Worlds Fair Driving through the center of a giant redwood tree (you can't do this any more) Driving down the Las Vegas strip when it was only a 2 lane road and strip was only 5 miles long. Clamming along the southwest Washington coast. Panning for Gold in the Yuba river (CA) Building huge multi castle sand castles with moats between low and high tide. Trout fishing with my dad. Attending every football game at my senior high school Think I'll stop for now. |
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Grand Poohbah
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Jun 24, 2007 at 03:00 PM
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Thank you for sharing Muffy and Keb
 some great memories!
__________________ Melinda Today, NOW! Is the time to tell that someone you love them..... because tomorrow just might be too late!
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Grand Poohbah
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Jun 24, 2007 at 07:05 PM
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Having the attention of relatives as I made up facinating pretend stories!
Having someone come and find me at the amusement park when I was waiting in the wrong place. Eating Lucky Charms and watching Saturday cartoons with my mother. Attending my little sister's HS graduation. I was so excited for her. Leading expeditions to find the litter bug with the kids in the apartments where I lived. Making up travel brochures and maps with my sister for other planets. Creating a 'something' with the Christmas presents - a horse or something like that - by using them as blocks before Christmas day when we got to open them. LEGOS!!!! Lip-syncing in the upstairs window to a Sesame Street Tape with my sister. __________________ W.Rose   ~~~~~ “The individual who is always adjusted is one who does not develop himself...” (Dabrowski, Kawczak, & Piechowski, 1970) “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” (Oliver Wendell Holms, Sr.) |
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Jun 24, 2007 at 07:26 PM
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Little old blue haired ladies giving me dimes to get a Coke.
Spending time with Dad while he was teaching me how to ice skate, climb trees, tumbling, bowling, playing pool, fishing and singing together. Singing in church choir and being the only kid to be chosen to sing with the adult choir consistently. Also was chosen to sing solo's especially at Christmas time All the kids in the neighborhood gathering in my yard on a Friday or Saturday night to just hang out together. Making snow angels, dancing in the rain, telling secrets to my friends and giggling over nothing in particular  Hugssss Jean |
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Jun 28, 2007 at 10:34 PM
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Laying in the grass with my neighbor and looking at the clouds trying to figure out what they look like...
Taking guitar lessons and playing in a band (made up of the students - wish I had kept that up!)..... My sister took me to a bar when I was 8 (she was 17) - sounds bad, but I didn't know any better and I had fun playing pool and drinking a coke. Then we went to a swimming hole. (Unfortunately, we got in trouble and she couldn't take me out anymore).... Seeing my cousins in Maine - we would play hide in seek in my grammies big old house (seemed really big then when we were little, lots of places to hide).... While in Maine, walking down to the corner store that still had soda in glass bottles.... I have to say that I cringed when I saw this post, I really hated my childhood and don't remember a whole lot of it except some bad stuff. This helped me remember a few good things that I had forgotten about Tranquility __________________ 
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Jun 28, 2007 at 11:04 PM
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Back in the late 50's the in spot for Spring Break in CA was Palm Springs. All the movie stars of the era had homes there. (Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Phyllis Diller)
My family went on a vacation to see the "in" spot. The cars were big, convertable, and sported the infamous "fins". We were driving down main street when coming from the other direction was an old lady riding on the hood of a car. She was wearing a lepoard print bikini, big floppy hat, big dark sun glasses and smoking a cigarette in one of those long black cigarette holders. My sister and I still chuckle to this day about our trip to Palm Springs. |
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Grand Poohbah
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Jun 29, 2007 at 02:37 PM
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I thank you all for particapting and sharing.... I have enjoyed reading your fun times... I was skeptical at first about starting this thread b/c I no many of us have had truamtic childhoods and I just wanted to find something that wasnt negative....
Thank you! __________________ Melinda Today, NOW! Is the time to tell that someone you love them..... because tomorrow just might be too late!
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Jun 30, 2007 at 11:51 PM
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For me it was a wonderful thread, it helped me remember that there were good times.. my grandparents were wonderful people..
so thank you for taking the chance 
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