Let’s keep it going, here’s 3 more comments,
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Tom says:
Ditto to Robi’s comment. Thought the same thing when I read the post. I also remember being at G’ma and G’pa’s house, G’ma teaching us how to make bread and play cannasta (sp) the card game. Doug and I stayed with G’pa one time and all we ate for dinner one night was corn on the cob right from the garden, so fresh. Believe I ate 11 ears that night. Don’t forget the little store around the corner for push up pops. Good memories.
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Annette says:
We usually went camping the old fashioned way. Tent, sleeping bags ect. My dad always found the most out of the way places in the middle of nowhere. One year we went to Vancouver B.C. to visit my moms cousin. They had 2 girls, one my age and one my brothers. They took us to the local drive-in and we had french fries with vinager. We thought they were nuts. When I was 7 I got to go to Girl Scout Camp for 2 weeks each summer in Mendicno on the coast in the redwoods. We traveled in a school bus for about 3 1/2 hrs. on a very winding road (someone always got sick). My dad was not very happy about the bus and said he might follow it all the way up there. We stayed in tents with wooden floors, 4 to six to a tent. I was a little home sick the first year but I loved it and went every year until I was fourteen. The last year I went we had a new camp out of Soda Springs near Tahoe. We had one of the only warm lakes in the Sierras. We were the oldest girls that year and slept on the ground. It was a new camp and the only tents were for the youngest girls. I really learned a lot through Girl Scouts. Mendicno was mostly a fishing village then. I loved it then and I love it now. I wish I could afford to live there. The other vacations I remember were over Washingtons Birthday. We went to Disneyland the first year it was open in 1955 and went a lot of years after that on Washingtons Birthday. I also still love Disneyland and would go any old time, with or without kids.
Great stuff from all of you, thanks.
I too remember the fish fry’s on Friday nights in Wisconsin. It was a big deal and everyone went. And yes the cabin, I can still see it clear as day and the boat house where Uncle T and I would spend hours with that green boat and fishing on the lake. Lot’s of relatives around all the time and the hole in the floor of the sporting goods store in Cecil where they had fish, what fun.
Grandma Annettes experiences sound like lots of fun too, thanks for sharing. I love the camping stories, the boys and I are determined to go camping this summer, we’re just waiting until later when the west nile virus and the ticks are gone. Both are unusually bad this year due to the early heat and drought. They say Deet is as important as sunscreen this summer. I don’t remember a year like this with 100 degree temps and almost brown yards in mid June. Hope we get some rain.
Today the misses is getting her hair done and the boys will be hanging with me for a few hours. I’ll have to work around them. Yesterday Mom cleaned out the fridge as something was really smelling bad. Every time you opened the door, it would hit you in the face. She couldn’t figure out what it was until she had all the stuff out. You should see our fridge now, it looks like it’s brand new all sparkling and clean. We almost hate to put anything in it!
I went to bed early again last night trying to catch up on sleep. I must have dozed off around a little after 8 and slept until 5 which is a lot for me. I’m going to head to the gym when I’m done writing this morning. It was only around 80 yesterday which was great but today will be back to 100 with no relief in sight.
Your assignment for today is to tell us about your July 4th memories as a kid. I’ll give you a taste of mine. When we were kids we were at Grandma Miller’s house on Lake George and one of us (maybe me or Uncle T) dropped a spark into the bag of fireworks sitting on the dock and the whole thing went up like a scene out of a movie. I remember kicking the bag into the lake but things were still flying all over the place, it was something else.
Ok, now your turn, let’s keep the comments coming, have a great day, take care and God Bless, and oh yea, Uncle T and I looked good in those one piece wool swim suits when we were kids. I remember us standing there and flexing our muscles, I think mine was dark blue, I looked like a kid out of the 20’s!
My favorite summer memories were going to Wisconsin to visit grandma, grandpa, cousins, aunts and uncles. Remember staying at the cottage, sleeping in the attic in the heat and humidity. I remember going to fish frys, and baseball games where the stands were wood with no frills like today. I remember going out in the boat and fishing. Remember those one piece swimsuits you and Uncle T wore? PRICELESS!