to brighten the day, I enjoy bringing this one out every summer--

blue raspberry popsicles and chlorine scented hair!! Glad to still see you Nan!

I hope this means you are staying with us.

 
raiding the piggy bank for silver dimes for the ice cream truck. so glad to see you Nan. I thought

for just a moment you may have gone "postal" with that summer job and burned down that furniture store this week----or are you writing us from the clink? smiles.

 
Why on earth did I say to ignore my post. I must've thought I was on some

other thread! I also have memories of blue popsicles, Pat. My cousin and I walked up the street from my grandmother's house, to the nearest little grocery store and bought 2 of them. Boy did we get in trouble when we got back to Gram's.

I was about 5 and she was 7... it was a very safe neighborhood, but I think they must've been looking for us, and didn't know when we disappeared to. That was back then when you could let your kids out of your sight for 2 seconds!

 
Did you ever sleep outside? I remember at least one instance of taking quilts out in the yard

because the house was just unbearable. However, that was out in the country.

 
Mom popping corn while dad loaded a mattress into the back of the station wagon.

Off to the drive- in where we'd fall asleep in back and mom and dad would enjoy the movie.

 
All the time...

No AC in the farmhouse I grew up in. So in summers I would pull great-grandmother's quilts out into my special bed-sized depression in a slope at the end of the yard. There I would stare up at a bazillion stars with no interference of any artificial light through the swarms of lightening bugs with Chauncy the German Shepherd curled up beside me on guard. He took bodily protection of his master's children very seriously. : )

 
woke up extremely dizzy... was awake only 45 min all day... shot that off just before hitting sack

 
I remember when I was 10, a boy who lived across the street and I would

pack a lunch and head for the rail road tracks. We'd hike until we were tired and then head home. Sometimes we'd be gone all day, tracking "wild animals" in the woods, exploring exotic (we thought) old campgrounds where the Indians were known to have stayed (which was all over Virginia, LOL). Nobody worried about us!

 
and I'm not even BLONDE!! heehee.... must be feeling better as I couldn't resist smileys/smile.gif

 
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