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[DayTimer]

I had weed route and smoked my inventory.

Who would have guessed?

Anybody detassel corn?

Never corn, but had to help the farmer I worked for "detassle" steers and barrows. Even at that age, it was downright uncomfortable work. I would have rather detassled corn.

 

[DayTimer]

Remember the ads in the back of comic books? Save your money and send it off. Always to somewhere in California. Check the mail box every day for six months. Never could get those invisible glasses to work though.

I used to love it when this came in the mail. I bought the plans to build a hover board "powered by a vacuum cleaner motor."

What they didn't tell you was that back then folks ran their vacuums until the motor burnt out and there was no way an 8 year old would be able to buy a new vacuum motor.

What I really needed was ebay, but I could never get connected to the internet back then.

 

[rmhaire]

What I really needed was ebay, but I could never get connected to the internet back then.

Probably because Al Gore hadn't invented it yet.

 

[rmhaire]

Never corn, but had to help the farmer I worked for "detassle" steers and barrows. Even at that age, it was downright uncomfortable work.

Did try to milk a bull yearling when I was five or six. Don't remember much about it but God I sure hope I failed with that one.

Did succeed in getting my little brother to pee on an electric fence. Twice in one day.

 

[goillini52]

I used to love it when this came in the mail. I bought the plans to build a hover board "powered by a vacuum cleaner motor."

What they didn't tell you was that back then folks ran their vacuums until the motor burnt out and there was no way an 8 year old would be able to buy a new vacuum motor.

What I really needed was ebay, but I could never get connected to the internet back then.

Rick Berry, shot underhanded free throws....and hardly ever missed.

 

[WinoBlues]

Between those two creeks I mentioned was an old junk yard, abandoned sometime in the late 60's because the State of Pennsyltuckey was going to dam up those two creeks and create a big lake or "reservoir." The state officials made the junk yard owner sell his land to them. Then the Feds realized that the landfill that was sitting just south of the Skippack Creek was leaching toxic waste into the ground water. So the EPA told the state of PA that the reservoir idea was DOA. At least, that's how it was told to me.

By the time I was a kid in the 70's, that old junk yard had been taken back by nature, as nature does with such things once we humans are no longer around. Friend, it was the most magnificent set of woods a kid could have to play in! Most of the old cars were of course sold for scrap when the yard owner left the land, but not all of them. We would spend days crawling through brush and down trees to find one. And when we did, it could take us months to "clear" it of the brush and growth so we could use it as fort, or a getaway car, or fighter plane, or whatever prop we wanted it for in our imaginations.

Also left largely intact was the big home he and his family had lived in. Those walls have now been collapsed and bulldozed and the whole property between those two creeks has been more or less developed. But if those walls could talk! Whew! The rating that would get applied to that movie!

My brother and I and our friends would set out in the morning with a bag of sandwiches and another sack of tastycakes, and we wouldn't see hide nor hair of a parent until the sun started to glow at the horizon.

My dad and I always say to one another that he and I were raised in one world, and my kids in a whole other one.

I can't tell you that any of my kids were ever out of sight of some adult supervision for more than a few minutes. Usually because the adult went inside for veggie wraps and crudite.

I wouldn't trade my time growing up to grow up today.

Times, they have a changed.

That.

All of that.

For us it was the river, the field (Old army / internment camp) or the ditch.

Ah, the joyous memory of catching a dirt clod in the teeth.

 

[WinoBlues]

Did try to milk a bull yearling when I was five or six. Don't remember much about it

Oh but the young bull remembers you fondly.

Oh so very fondly.

 

[rousemark]

Did try to milk a bull yearling when I was five or six. Don't remember much about it but God I sure hope I failed with that one.

Did succeed in getting my little brother to pee on an electric fence. Twice in one day.

Never peed on an electric fence but did spit on one. The spittle streamed al the way from my lips to the fence. Thought it knocked my teeth out.. Didn't do it but once.

 

[DayTimer]

 

[rousemark]

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