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BOB MCKOWN IS A MILF MAGNET.  THE TRUE MASTER OF MILF.

I do believe we all grew up in a very similar era.    So many of these have captured the details and things I don't think about too often.

I remember the one time when in snowed in southern Tx in the early 80's. We had Thunder the shetlan(sp) pony with a wagon behind him and our next door neighboor in it. LOL That was so fun/funny our uncle even took a turn on the wagon.  Thunder hauled ass with the neighbor on the wagon and our friend had eyes as BIG as plates goin down the driveway. I'll never forget that look. The good ol days all the cousins playing hide n go seek at grandmas she had a huge yard for her clan of grandkids.lol Go outside we'll call yall when it's time to eat. Going to the river was the best, Family BBQ's and swimming. I don't remember being to lazy when we were kids always worked and played hard my brother and I were both in sports from jr high through high school football and track, but I was the Fat kid.Sopping in the Husky isle LOL Maybe to many tortillas with potato's n cheese. One other thing we did was work on cars from the age we were old enough to hold and hand wrench's to Dad. To this day we still work on the cars together and still have many of the same cars from when I was a kid.

Okay, I admit it: I did play with dolls! I had a new doll every Christmas and took good care of them. They were still in mint condition when I went to college. I also had a wonderful antique set of child-sized china given to me by a rich old lady my grandmother worked for. I also spent a LOT of time reading. The library (any library anywhere) was my favorite place in the world. My first "real" books that were mine to keep were from the library of the same rich old lady as the china set. (They included al of Louisa May Alcott, Robinson Crusoe, The Jungle Book and Moby Dick). The games we played included fort (Gee, is that some genetic thing? Everyone from every background seems to have played some version of forts!) We also played "Olympics" during the summer. We had races around the block, including hurdles. We used garbage cans for the hurdles--those nasty metal ones. So, you had to be good and clear the hurdles, or risk getting lock-jaw. We also "camped out" in the backyard during the summer. Odd, it was safe to sleep outside then. Of course, there was a gsd , a collie and a few mutts out there with us. :-) Oh, yeah, and we played "monsters" where we made up stories about vampires, werewolves, etc. that lived in the old, set- way-back-behind-hedges houses that we never saw anyone going in or out of. We also plotted going in and killing the vampires in the basement. We even climbed over the wall of one once...we made the Catholic kids go first, because they had crucifixes. :-) we loved horror movies and knew the lore in detail. :-)

 Nia,

"we made the Catholic kids go first, because they had crucifixes."

Thankfully, I never had a doll. Now I know why you like to collect those dolls made for SchH activities LOL!!!

But your comment about the Catholic kids and their crucifixes cracks me up and now, laughing, I am going to bed.

Good night.

Well throw me under the bus, I went to Catholic school up until HS. Reminds me, my vacations were always different from that of my public school friends, so I spent all of my vaca time alone with my dog, no siblings to hang with. I read alot too, every horse and dog book in 2 counties. I also loved to sketch/draw. I also made up a game with dice and Breyer Horses, roll the dice and move your horse 1 tile on our hall floor, for every point rolled. It was my own Kentucky Derby on rainy days or days too hot to stay outside the whole day. The hall was where the swamp cooler blew, good place to cool off with a glass of Kool-aid before heading back outside.

We played with dolls some, but GI Joe dated Barbi. Ken was gay. Usually I stuck to playing vet with my stuffed animals. He-Man and Transformers were cooler than the girl dolls.

I never played with dolls either, made castles from hay bails, ( The farmer hated us,) walked and trained my Cocker Spaniel, then went to the nearby Cocker  kennels and walked theirs, played rounders, cricket with the boys, went to the beach and made igloos in the snow in winter ( lived north east England those days ).  We would also take sandwiches that only had jam on them and a bottle of water and go for a picnic ------- Our parents didn't have to worry about where we were or what we were upto, we didn't get into any trouble and we were alway home by dinner time.

This was forwarded to me a long time ago, i didn't write it but I can sure relate...thought I'd share

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 40's,50's, 60's and even the 70's !

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chatrooms..........
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told
it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow  up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.  And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how  brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?

-Stacy

"Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?"

LOL!!

Guys:

               It,s funny, reading this just proves my point about kids these days. The 1 thing i,ve noticed with the kids are there inability to be creative with just there minds. No video games no hand held devices or DVD,s or VCR,s there was a time that it was your mind you had to rely upon to keep you entertained .

I guess thats why i love Disney World,mud puddles,sticks,clouds,frogs,ponds... I think i might go into a woods this weekend and build a fort...but it.s to early for walnuts...maybe some good dirt clods?