Monday Memories

Last night while trying to get to sleep i started thinking about how much fun my childhood was. I also was thinking that we did not have much at all in the way of "things" to play with like the kids do today. What did we ever do then?

Ron and I made up things to do. We used something that sometimes i wonder if the kids have today...it is called IMAGINATION!!

From the first that i can remember we would sit at night (mostly) and listen to the great programs on the radio. We would all sit in front of it (preparation for TV I guess) and listen to the good programs that came over the wires. We would hear things that we had never heard about and try to imagine what the people looked like. We had to figure out on our own what people looked like. I remember later on in life finally seeing what some people looked like and I could not believe it. I had not had them pictured like that!!

Ron and I would play games. We made up things like circus. We would go outside and take Mother's clothes line poles that she used to keep the clothes line up. We took them and put them between two things..anything that would hold them. We would use that as our tight rope walker rope!! We would get up there and perform. Another thing we would do is to take a board and put it across the wagon and use that as our teeter totter!!

We played house a lot with dolls and anything that we could find. One time when we lived in the "middle" of the country we had an extra little shed. We took that and made it into a house for us. We had a table and dolls and a real throw rug on the floor. One day I decided it was time to clean. I pulled the rug up and there laid a BIG snake. Well, there went playing in that little shed!!!

We usually had a tree swing. To this day I love a good long tree swing!! So much fun!! We would swing and swing by the hours. My dad would make us a board swing but a lot of the times we had a tire swing!! When it rained it filled with water which did not make swinging the best idea in the world.

We would go to our ditches and look for anything that would be fun to look for. Funny the things that we did. We only had a wagon and bikes.

I have told you already about playing cowboys and Indians. How I hit Ron in the back of the head to see if it really did work like it did when the cowboys did it!! Hm!! It worked!!

Dad would make us kites which always flew so nicely. They would have long long tails that mother would make with rags. He also made us stilts! He would take two pieces of wood and put foot holds on each one. Then you stand on them against a building and start walking. We had such fun with those. Now I would fall off and break something!!

We always had some sort of animal...dogs, parakeets, cats or later on sheep, pigs and chickens. They were fun to play with too. We would get in the barn with a baby pig and have a ball with the little squealer. Such fun!! I remember Petie our parakeet. He would fly all over our little house and land on the side of Dad's glasses. We had an old medicine cabinet in the kitchen. He would light there and see himself and talk up a storm. Mother taught him to say, "Pretty Boy". He was really into himself. Then he started chipping off the chrome or paint that was around the glass. He sure was a sweet bird!!

Now kids have to have their DS Ninendo with them everywhere they go. TV is wonderful. Computers and all that go along with that is wonderful too. We are in the technology age. I love technology...nothing wrong with it...but what happened to good ole' fun bike riding, skating, running and playing?

Our two grands here in Savannah do that all of the time. They are always outside playing, riding, running or doing something that is fun!! I am glad to see them doing those fun things of long ago. They love computers and technology too but they still love being outside and playing too.

Memories are flooding my head lately. Does getting older make that happen? Hm!! I am getting one year older this Wednesday!! I also get a day off too!! YES!!

Just came home from getting a B-12 injection at my daughter's house!! Maybe it will pep me up...soon I hope!!

FLIP FLOP!!