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Default 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>

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Default 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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Default 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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Default Jun 24, 2007 at 03:00 PM
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Thank you for sharing Muffy and Keb Favorite Childhood memories? some great memories!

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Default 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. Favorite Childhood memories?

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.

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Default 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 Favorite Childhood memories?

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 Favorite Childhood memories?

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Default Jun 24, 2007 at 07:30 PM
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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!

Favorite Childhood memories?

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Default Jun 24, 2007 at 07:34 PM
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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. Favorite Childhood memories?

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Default Jun 24, 2007 at 08:00 PM
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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....Favorite Childhood memories?
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Default Jun 24, 2007 at 08:45 PM
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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!!

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Default Jun 24, 2007 at 09:02 PM
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this thread is a great one!!!!!!!! thank you......sure made me grin.
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Default Jun 24, 2007 at 11:18 PM
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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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Default Jun 24, 2007 at 11:29 PM
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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.

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Default Jun 25, 2007 at 02:14 AM
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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.
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Default Jun 25, 2007 at 11:12 AM
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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....

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Being young......
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Default Jun 26, 2007 at 10:24 PM
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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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Default Jun 27, 2007 at 04:56 AM
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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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Default Jun 27, 2007 at 05:48 PM
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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

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Default Jun 27, 2007 at 06:29 PM
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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. Favorite Childhood memories?

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