When I was a kid, there wasn’t an internet. No computers, not really video games either. Only the great outdoors.
I grew up with the neighborhood kids next door. We would get off the bus and grab a snack and head outside. We would play fun games like Duck Duck Goose, Red Light Green Light & Red Rover come on over.
When that got boring, we would head to the woods. Hike around and follow paths all around. We lived in the country, not a care in the world really. Now I look back and think about all the animals we could have come across or gotten lost…who knows. Guess that's the mom in me coming out. But back then it was nothing to us to head out and explore.
One of my favorite times in the summer, we would head out to where there were a bunch of evergreen trees and build a kind of a fort. We found a ring of trees that were close together and start taking branches and small tree and creating a wall with them, using the trees to hold them up. Making rooms, walkways and secret exits. Nowadays we would be worried about ticks in the dead wood that was laying around. Back then, just splinters and the occasional ant infestation.
Our bikes were a big deal back then too. We had a long dead end road with very little traffic. More that likely if there was a car it was a mom or dad coming home from work.
Riding back and forth, doing pop a wheelies or seeing who could lay the longest rubber in the road. There were a couple of big hills we would race down super fast. Winner gets bragging rights for a minute. lol
My favorite winter memories included, playing in the snow. Building big elaborate forts with tunnels, turrets and stairs. So much fun digging and shoveling…why did that change when i became an adult?! Oh yeah, there is lingering pain involved now…ugh. We had a good sized pond on our neighbors property that we would ask every year if we could play on. Most of us had ice skates and would slice out way around that pond like we were professionals. The guys would bring their hockey sticks and do some slap shots too. So much fun and laughs for us all. Of course, there was sledding and we found a couple big hills to sled down. As we got older, we would take a snowmobile with us to help haul our butts back up the hill. And even trail rides on our snowmobiles too.
As we got older too we had some video game systems. We had a game called Duck Hunt, where the dog would flush the ducks out of the brush and you were supposed to shoot the ducks. If you missed the dog would pop up and laugh at ya. Hehehe
All in All, we had a great childhood. Lots of laughs and silliness all around. Of course as we have gotten older we have grown apart, but still keep in touch. With the way the world is going these days, it’s nice look back and remember those fun times we had. Now it’s time to tell our Grandkids about those fun things we did without, computers, phones without cords and video games for many years.
Remember the fun! ~ Shelly
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