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Grand Poohbah
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ooo sabau, my sister and I would get into giggle fits where we couldn't stop - just meeting each other's eyes would set us off again. Oh my stomach!
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riding with my dad and others to "gather" cattle in the mountains
learning to drive dancing to bluegrass music, while my grandpa beat on the floor to his cane...at age 5 and 6. school roller skates picking strawberries in our garden modeling new clothes that my mother made me writing letters to friends using the Reader's Digest word thingy riding a mule down to Mr. Thomas's house to get a "tow" sack full of books to read eating the watermelons that my dad grew. (and the cantaloupes) playing in the hayloft. staying all night with my girlfriends and my sister and her husband eating homemade ice cream cutting ice from the creek for the ice cream riding "Star" down the road at full speed riding "Socks" to school helping my mother cook and sew tending the herd of cattle getting my dogs to help me pen those cattle playing the piano, listening to the radio, eating and reading a book at the same time. notes that were passed in class |
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That's such a great time to remember! I didn't have a sister and I had more boy friends than girl friends. But the girl friends I did have, we had some wild gigglefests! Puts a huge smile on my face just remembering it. Oh, and of course the occasional milk that would come through someone's nose because we would giggle at the wrong time....
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Grand Poohbah
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I am enjoying reading all these great times you have all had....
and the creativity in some of the activities is fabulous... I especially love this one from WinterRose: Making up travel brochures and maps with my sister for other planets... i bet that was so much fun!! __________________ Melinda Today, NOW! Is the time to tell that someone you love them..... because tomorrow just might be too late! |
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this thread is a great one!!!!!!!! thank you......sure made me grin.
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climbing to the tip top of trees
standing on the "barn tank" to get on my horse to go bareback riding "sugar bushing" with my Grandpa - tapping the trees - for sap - boiling it down for maple syrup morel mushroom hunting - yumm frying them up annual picking of "May flowers" with my grandma helping my grandpa "hull" the outer skins off the walnuts making apple dumplings with my grandma catching butterflies in my net learning how to drive a stick shift....Yaza gathering the eggs from underneath the hens aspargas picking,, by hand with my Grandpa finding arrowheads in freshly plowed fields reading "Zane Grey" western books with my Grandpa "new" basset hound puppies, dressing them up in clothes the birth of my horse's first foal - watching him being born having my "grandpa say - go put some salt on the bird's tail so that you can catch him" popping cherry tomatoes straight off the plant and into my mouth teaching a calf how to nurse making homemade strawberry jam with my grandma going on the trapping lines with my Grandpa new barn kittens concord grape juice made from my grandma's farm crossing the stream into the woods on my grandpa's farm watching it flow.. looking for turtles and fish.. |
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This is a good thread. I will probably start crying...
playing baseball in the backyard with all the neighborhood kids learning to drive VW bug around the backyard sitting up in the treehouse singing harmony with my mom, grandma, maree my sisters and brothers giving me their allowance so I'd quit practicing my accordion running home from school for lunch going to church with a square of TP on my head because I forgot my chapel veil playing jacks at recess with the janitor going in the basement at christmastime and having our dad tell us that he heard santa on the roof, hooves, etc. until we believed it too and then going back upstairs to a living room full of presents playing tetherball and dodgeball learning how to sew Ok, I'm officially blubbering. Okie __________________ |
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OH NO i cant think of any!!!
ummmmmmmmmmmmmm... OH, jumping on the bed with my sister and cousin singing those 2 weird songs the switching of the beds sliding down the stairs in pillowcases and sleeping bags the world music fest [haha chicken curry!!!] laughing at kids and co. nancy drew THE HIDEOUS SHIRT!!! __________________ --Edna St. Vincent Millay |
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Grand Poohbah
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my sisters and brothers giving me their allowance so I'd quit practicing my accordion going to church with a square of TP on my head because I forgot my chapel veil I love it! I think its wonderful to have fun silly memories... let see if I can recall any... altho at the time I didnt think it was so funny, it really was... I used to explore the swamps with my cousin and we would have to cross over fallen trees to get to each "island"... well I wasnt very good at walking across and usually crawled, but one day I thought I would give it a go and you guessed it... in the swamp I went... It was deep too... lost my glasses and walked to my aunts looking the Swamp Thing!! LOL... singing in our living room and pretending that the cars that went by was the audience and that hidden in the fireplace was a talent scout, LOLOL... speaking in a secret silly code language with my dad that used to drive my mom nuts.... __________________ Melinda Today, NOW! Is the time to tell that someone you love them..... because tomorrow just might be too late! |
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Being young......
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Every summer my grandmother and great aunt would drive accross the country (NJ to CA) for a visit.
We would go to %#@&#! Mexico to watch jai alai on Friday nights. Since I wasn't old enough to place real bets my grandmother and I would bet each other fruit for each game. Two grapes, half a peach, a bowl of strawberries, a slice of watermelon...At the end of the night you could have a whole fruit salad. |
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putting the pool up.........did you guess that?
took all the kids around cause you had to hold the sides up! |
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Playing in the sandbox making cities to drive our matchbox cars around in
Sleeping in the backyard and then running in the house because it started to rain Running around in our neighbors yards at night when sleeping in the backyard and then running into the chainlink fence cuz you couldn't see it at night Running in the cornfield behind our house and getting yelled at by Mr. Strikey to get out of his cornfield Going on a 3 week vacation to all over the USA and even Canada Going to Disneyland and getting kicked out of a casino in Las Vegas...who knew kids weren't supposed to play the slots LOL Jbug __________________ I appreciate long walks especially when taken by people who annoy me. Noel Coward |
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Jannie,
My father's friend had a slot machine in his finished basement. When my parents would socialize at their home, I got to play with the slot machine to my heart's content. I'm thinking that maybe it didn't require putting money in. I'm not sure why I think the following is such a cool memory. One day when I was around three year's old, my mother and I went to pick black-eyed susans at the end of this long driveway on the estate where we were living at the time. We were renting the garage apartment. Anyway, suddenly bees started to swarm out from around the flowers. I can remember my mother screaming, and the two of us running up the driveway together. Maybe it's because that's the only time I can remember my mother running with me that it is a particularly fond memory. My Mom was 39 when she had me. EJ |
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