Clara's Corner: Memory Monday....Our Entertainment As Children.....and more!

Monday, August 08, 2011

Memory Monday....Our Entertainment As Children.....and more!

Can you remember what you did for entertainment when you were a kid? I can....We played Hop Scotch, Red Rover, May I, Chinese Checkers and Hide and Seek. Then when we got tired of doing that we build play houses in the woods. I remember sweeping out a clean ":room" and placing rocks around it. We would slice potatoes and put them in salt water and thought they were good. We didn't know about the X-Box, ipods, ipads and iphones. I remember one time, I had a new pair of jeans. I must have been around seven or eight. I had worn them so long they woiuld have stood up by their self when I took them off. My Mother finally got them off of me and put them in the wringer washing machine. I got them out of the washing machine and put them on wet. My Daddy must have been close by, because I looked up and he was coming throught the apple orchard. As he came by one tree he broke off a limb. He took the jeans off me and switched my wet legs. You wouldn't believe how much more it hurts when your legs are wet. I learned my lesson and never again did I try to get ANYTHING out of the washing machine to wear before it was ready.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I remember playing those games, I especially liked Chinese Checkers, and also "lined" my play house with rocks and I loved to find moss to put down as "carpet". But my very favorite thing to play with when I was a little girl was my paper dolls. I loved paper dolls, and had a huge box of them. I never could understand why my two sisters did not like to play with paper dolls.
Paulette; 8:25 PM
Beth said...: I played a lot of the same games you did, Clara, especially Red Rover and Mother, May I. I never ran out of things to do. It amazes me to hear modern kids say they're "bored." So many choices these days---I cannot conceive of boredom! My "kids" are 22 and 23 now, but they always knew better than to say they were "bored." I told them that if they said that, I'd definitely find them something to do. Involving a dustrag, a broom, or a vacuum cleaner, haha...; 9:09 AM

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I am from hayfield and blackberry patches, gathering eggs and selling them to my Daddy in his store. I am from a house with no bath....but a path. I am from cherry trees where I climbed and ate more than I carried home.....from digging potatoes in the rich earth. I am from skinny dipping and swinging on grape vines, two room school house, sitting on the front porch while my Mother played the guitar.....wringer washers and wash tubs. I am from playing the piano, the accordian and making playhouses in the woods....hide and seek, jumping rope and May I. From: Raleigh's Liniment, Cracker Jacks and Castor Oil.....Revival Meetings and Baptisms in the river....catalogs and feed sack skirts. From: "Pretty is only skin deep" to "Always mind your manners." I am from Methodist, Baptist, Wednesday night prayer meetings and shouting Hallaujah. I am from the Volunteer state of Tennessee with lakes and mountains, race cars, beans, cornbread and red eye gravy. We always called it "God's Country." I am from family get togethers, dinner on the ground, singing with my sisters, a Mother with a heart of gold and a Daddy with a strict hand. A grandfather who always looked to see if I had my fingernails painted and a Grandmother who could squeeze your heart out! Yes, I came from a family of seven siblings and I have told you where I came from. It was wonderful and I wouldn't change a thing if I could. Now let me tell you where I am going...."To Where The Streets Are Paved With Gold." Some days, I can hardly wait!