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| We use to find bottles and bring them back to the store. 5 cents for the big ones and 2 cents for the samller ones. Used to buy penny candy and comic books with the tops torn off for 5 cents a piece.
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AUNT_BEE_1945
5/5/06 6:08 P
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Boy does that ever age us! I can remember those.
My grandparents had a grosery store.
I guess we had, more money than some. I got to go to the movies, quite a bit when I was little. Think they use the movies, like people do TV now days.
Aunt Bee
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To the movies on every other Saturday,= Movie 10 cents,snickers 10 cents,coke 5 cents,cost dad about 4 hours pay to let us kids go.
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| I use to have a home-made swing - two ropes and a wodden board that was nitched on each side. It hung from a tree in our backyard. I spent hours on it.
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| my brother and i "working" picking strawberries. I think i ate my weight in berries!!! my brother who was itty bitty at the time could eat twice as many as me. I'm not too sure we really ended up being "cheap" labor.
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Breaking,cutting and bailing broomcorn from 5 in the morning until it got dark.Except on Fridays/Saturdays,we knocked off at 5:00PM go home take a bath shine-up and go DANCEING.(14-17 age range.)
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We didn't throw them at a post , we threw them at each other's feet. My aim was too high that one time!!!
We'd only watched the oldtimers play down the street and had the barest idea of what we were supposed to be doing--- I remember that we had "played" for weeks before the accident.
Stupidity and luck held out for a while!!!!
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| Nice going Bonnie. Wasen't your brother just a little bit taller that the post or was your aim that bad? (Just kidding)
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Patches, i can top the rock story.
My little brother and i played horseshoes with rocks-- that is until i split the top of his hesd open with a piece of granite. thought my mom would kill me but she had calmed down by the time they got back from the emergency room.
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| Playing hop-scoth and using stones for our "markers".
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| Skinny diping in the pond after the work was done.
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OLDREDROSIE
4/30/06 1:46 A
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| I remember coming home from school...opening the door and smelling the brownies that my mom had just baked!( Or the gingerbread cake) Yummy! Then my brother and I used to argue over who got to tell mom about their day first!
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Two toe sacks sewn togather,and pulling bows (cotton)after school at age 6,had to buy my own shoes and cloths.Those days didn't hurt me a bit,they made me a better man."hard work and self discipline is what a lot of kids need to become better adults today,I guess thats what G.W.Bush is talking about when he says jobs Americans wont do? .I'll bet he never worked hard,and in Texas they say that MOMA Bush had to go drive Papa and the 2 boys home every time they went to town(they stayed DRUNK ).
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Skipping rope during recess at school. The crazy rhymes that went along with it. It took three people, two to spin the rope and the jumper.
Okiepapa - I just knew you were a boy scout.
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| Camporees' and summer camp as a boy scout,learned alot.
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AUNT_BEE_1945
4/29/06 1:20 A
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My step father and mom took me fishing, I caught a fish, scared me! I throw the pole in the lake. He wasn't to happy about that.
Bee
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| Helping my mom with the laundry while she used her old wringer washing machine...I couldn't wait until I grew up so I could have one of my own! As I got older that wringer washer was replaced with a new "spin" washer...thank goodness!
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| Wintertime upstairs in my unheated bedroom in Michigan - Jack Frost painted the windows on the INSIDE in my room. The worst part was getting across the linoleum floor to the wood landing out in the hall without freezing my feet.............
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RAZAYOTAIR
4/28/06 1:13 A
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| Summer time in England - getting up on to a lovely hot summer's day, getting ready to go to the beach - sitting in a traffic jam for hours - getting to the beach - sitting on the beach wrapped in towels, freezing cold, drinking tea from a thermos - & the tide was out - so there wasn't even the sea!! And it was a stoney beach!
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SUNSHINE521
4/27/06 9:44 P
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going fishing with my family and with 5 girls my poor dad had to take the fish off thehook and then put worms on the hook but he didn't mind just as long as we were there as a family
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HEALTHYLIFE3
4/27/06 7:46 P
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Resting with my cousins on a warm summer afternoon, a slight breeze blowing and my eyes feeling heavy. 
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Tilly,
where are you, or where were you? I live in the TWO season state-- the COLD rainy season and the WARM rainy season!!!! Good ol' western Oregon!
Bonnie
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TWOTONTILLY
4/27/06 3:21 P
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| Sweet summer days and crisp autumn afternoons and winter nights when snow turned to diamonds,then to long for springs' promise of new things not yet seen.
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Aunt-Bee:
Me too,used to get up tired sleeping under all those Quilts,it was my job to build the fire in the morning (livingroom and Kitchen).We had kerocine lamps also.
I was 14 when we moved to town and got electricity and a TV,never have cared much for TV,takes up to much of a persons time,watching everybody else have fun,I'ld rather be having fun myself.
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HEALTHYLIFE3
4/26/06 7:57 P
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walking in the woods, in the snow, looking for rabbit tracks, with my father
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Ended up in Tacoma, Washington as a teenager still at home.
We had terrible wind and rain storms, so my Dad had all the trees in our yard cut down so that none would blow onto the house. The next year, one of the neighbor's trees fell on our garage (attached to the house) and came through the roof!!!!!!! My bedroom was at the exact other end of the house but it still sounded like a bomb went off.
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PATCHES50
4/26/06 11:08 A
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I was at my grand parents house (I was about 7) during a thunder storm and saw lightning hit a tree about 50 feet from the house.
Years later when my children were small lightning hit a tree in the yard next to us and I saw that one too. Gee, twice in a lifetime, is that unusual?
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AUNT_BEE_1945
4/26/06 9:25 A
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We had two Springs on our farm, 665 acr. in Arkansas.
We didn't have electricty at the farm, We had to cart the food in jars to the Spring, to keep the food cold.
Remember grandma, heating the iron, on the wood stove to get it hot enough to iron the clothes. Watched my grandpa, plow, behind his mules.
Remember, corn brought in from the fields, was like heaven. Home made black berry pie, grandma made wine and brandy from the black berries. Taking a bath in a # 09 tub.
Having the chickens chase me, because I was afraid of them and they new it.
Remember the covers being so heavy I cauld hardly get out from under them, When I did get up Grandma or Grandpa had a warm fire going, Grandma alway said you coult tell a southern gal from a nothern gal by the way she lifted here dress to warm her behind! then she would laugh.
We had many colors of sand, I remember playing in the sand. Had many hours of play, out on the farm. Use to do thing that would scare, me for my children to do them. Like playing in the creek, knowing that there were poison snakes.
Aunt Bee
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| Walking down,a shady dirt road,with a willow fishing pole on my sholder,and smelling spring rain on the hot dirt.God really knows how to Spark us.
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Lying on the floor of the car at my mother's feet with a bottle in my mouth. Was about 10mths old. It's just a flash not like remembering drinking whole bottle & stuff just that one flash of my mother's legs & a bottle.
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AUNT_BEE_1945
4/26/06 2:09 A
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Remember running from the out house with my panties at my ankles, screaming SNAKE! was around 4 years old.
AUNT BEE
My Grandma, came down with a hol and killed the black snake. Said I bet that was the snake that was killing my chickens.
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AUNT_BEE_1945
4/26/06 2:08 A
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Remember bouncing in the bouncy thing that hang in the door way. can't remember what it was called. I was real small for my age until I started school.. I was the tallest girl in my class until 6 grade.
I only weighted 7 1/2 pounds at 7 months old. was like I was a year behind. Maturity wise, also. I was 2 when I learn to walk, and to cry. I was so babied that I guess I had no reason to cry. Was 1 pound 11 ounces at birth. 3 pounds when they allowed me to go home from the hospital.
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AUNT_BEE_1945
4/26/06 1:59 A
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I was a little over 2 years old, my parents lived up stairs, had a kitchen-net in it. I was on the bed, saw a can, thought it was baby powder,decided to powder my little fanny! I started screaming, my mother ran up stair, to se what was wrong, I had used peper for baby powder, I was crying and mom was laughing, once she relized that I wasn't dying. I was crying out pe p p er!
As Little as I was I can remember that one!
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| One windy day when my car pool left me off to walk down the sidewalk to my front door the wind blew me off the ground and through the air until I was stopped (and pinned) to neighbors fence. I was a small second grade student and will never forget the astonished look on the car pool lady's face as she rescued me.
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When I was 4, we lived with my Grandma. I had a swing in one of the trees in her front yard. One day something was wrong with it, so I climbed up the tree to "fix" the problem. I fell of the limb probably somewhere between 10-15 off the ground.
I landed flat on my back and I remember looking at the sky and thinking I had died because I couldn't breathe for the longest time!!!
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BONNIEBEE
4/21/06 12:22 P
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When I was 4, we lived with my Grandma. I had a swing in one of the trees in her front yard. One day something was wrong with it, so I climbed up the tree to "fix" the problem. I fell of the limb probably somewhere between 10-15 off the ground.
I landed flat on my back and I remember looking at the sky and thinking I had died because I couldn't breathe for the longest time!!!
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When I was 6 years old I fell through the ice on a pond dressed in my WOOL snowpants. Had to hold onto a rock until my friend ran for help. Finally someone came and pulled me out. Boy that was cold!
Anyone else have a unique memory?
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