• eurekame said on Aug 03, 2008....

  lets add to the list, a new one! lol!
   
  tag
  catching bugs
  finding "cool" rocks
  playing make believe- rockstars, jedi knights, hair gods (don't ask)!
  truth or dare
  ding dong ditch
  house
  putting on mini-plays
  picking flowers
  grass singing
  star watching
  card games
   
  ughhh so mannnny brain hurts.

• day2day said on Aug 03, 2008....

  kool. Here goes a new one.
   
  hide & go seek
  marbles
  paper dolls
  army men (i have 4 older brothers)
  tree climbing
  baseball in the dirt road
  basketball at the neighbors' house
  volleyball (sometimes by myself, off the roof of the house)
  bug catching
  croquet (an old set, but they were fun fun fun)
  bicycling
  skateboarding (i never was very good at that)
  digging a cave (my brothers' idea, but i loved it)
  catching a firefly
  and catching a locust
  hopscotch (lots of that)
  jump rope (two sisters on either end of any old rope we could find)
  kick the can
  star gazing (while laying on top of the roof)
  swimming in mud puddles (when i was really little) ha ha
  walking down the road to grandma and grandpa's house
  walking on top of a barrel down the road
   
  yes, so many more
  btw, what is:  ding dong ditch & grass singing?
   
  day2day
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

• eurekame said on Aug 03, 2008....

  you know...ring the doorbell and then ride to hide while the person looks to see, but no ones there. come on everyone has played that before. hehe.
   
  grass singing is what my mom called it. we would go to an open area, with no one or nothing around. then we would sing to our hearts content. loud (me not very good) and very silly.

• day2day said on Aug 04, 2008....

  ride to hide? sorry still don't get it

  grass singing........that one i get it.  My mother sang to her roses all the time.   Whenever i tried to sing, everyone would tell me to shut up because i sounded terrible.  I have climbed that mountain on my own and have begun to sing as an adult. I love to sing at times. No one dares tell me to shhhh. They know better.  You reminded me of my mom when she was young and beautiful. Thank you.

  day2day

   

• eurekame said on Aug 05, 2008....

  opppssss i meant run to hide!!
   
  lol, "no one dares to"! love it!
   
  you know whats funny; my mom calls me her mom, i always act like the adult in our releshanship. heck i give my mom advice!

• day2day said on Aug 05, 2008....

  oh....ok......you mean ring the door bell and run and hide?  Yeah, we played that game a lot but we never really had a name for it. So, you go ding dong and run and jump in a ditch?  ding dong ditch   That sounds funny.    There were so many games to play back then.  We even built our own kites. And sometimes, they would actually work. That was a good feeling.    I had the best of times playing marbles though.  Dad had a giant jar full of marbles. Those were all the marbles he had won off of all us kids. And, Lord help you if you go into them.  That's ok though there were a lot of marbles everywhere. I bought them by the bags at the store.    You would thump a marble down the hall and it would come to a stop somewhere.  The next person thumps his/her marble down the hall. And if he hits the first marble he gets to keep it. And so on, and so on..... It's a cutthroat game for a kid. ha ha

  I know i ramble on a lot. tis' me. You sound very mature. I guess some moms will always be like that.  Keep giving your mom good advice.

• eurekame said on Aug 05, 2008....

  its cool, i ramble all the time. my a.d.d. coming out, lol!
   
  humm, never played marbles....
   
  rode bikes for sure, swam at the river, watching for shapes in the clouds, finding creatures in the tide pools, nature walks, coloring, sticker collecting...
   
  still so many things on this list.
   
  i fake it really well; hehe...

• silverwhisper said on Aug 06, 2008....

  wow, what a list, you guys! i can't think of anything to add to the lists--you guys were pretty comprehensive!
  
  ed

• day2day said on Aug 06, 2008....

  me,

  I loved to watch clouds go by too.  Oh! .....what kind of creatures did you find in the tide pools?

  ed,

  There must be something you can add. Did u do any grass singing?

  day2day

• eurekame said on Aug 06, 2008....

  day,
   
  hummm, usually a crab or two, starfish, anemones, urchins...we'd put the starfish in buckets and dry em' out in funny shapes. Hey I was a mean kid...sometimes.

• day2day said on Aug 07, 2008....

  me,

  creatures is a good name for those things..But, urchins? Aren't those the spiny round thingys.  sorry, can't think of a better description right now.                         Yeah, you were a mean kid for drying out those starfish. just kiddin'. ha ha ha       Starfish were kinda hard to find on the Gulf Coast. They are there, but rare.      Mostly tons of seaweed, shells, jellyfish, crabs, the infernal seagulls, etc.   I don't live on the coast right now, but i do go visit often. I can't stay away.

  I love this post btw.  Remembering the good ol' times always makes me happy.

  day

• silverwhisper said on Aug 08, 2008....

  "grass singing"? what the heck is that?!
  
  ed

• day2day said on Aug 08, 2008....

  ed,

  eurekame wrote about it. Look up.  I did think of a couple more while i was at work. I played, pick-up sticks, operation, spin-the-bottle,

  day

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