It Matters When You Were Born (Page 2): That's how I remember it!

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

FallenOak wrote:

When I was in second grade I lived on one of the f... (show quote)

That's how I remember it!

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

dtucker300 wrote:

That's how I remember it!

Do you also remember how quiet the world was. It was just after 9-11 and my brother happened to be with me. He asked if I remembered how when we were young if we heard an airplane we would run out to watch it fly over.

Owl32 Loc: ARK

If only my great grand children could have these same experiences and enjoy the fun of learning about life in the most basic way. Road once traveled daily only lives in our dreams today.

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

Owl32 wrote:

If only my great grand children could have these same experiences and enjoy the fun of learning about life in the most basic way. Road once traveled daily only lives in our dreams today.

We need to write down those experiences for them so they get a feeling about our youth. Write the good and the not so good. I also remember that the water to the house was fed by a spring and we had no hot water tank. I also remember having to take a shower after a day out side in that water during the winter. Brrrrrrrrrrr. Wouldn't trade those times though.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

FallenOak wrote:

We need to write down those experiences for them so they get a feeling about our youth. Write the good and the not so good. I also remember that the water to the house was fed by a spring and we had no hot water tank. I also remember having to take a shower after a day out side in that water during the winter. Brrrrrrrrrrr. Wouldn't trade those times though.

Think of the number of inner-center youth who never get a chance to go out into the wilderness, and instead spend most of their time playing videos games at home.

Owl32 Loc: ARK

I'am glad I have never played a video game. I practiced catching fly balls by throwing the ball as high as I could, and then racing to try to catch it. We would take a mop handle and a cork covered with cloth first aid tape - we had a cork ball. the bat was a mop handle. When pitching you could make this ball move all over the place. 3 strikes and you were out. If you hit the ball hard It would travel a half of a block or more. 3 people could play this game, pitcher, catcher, and batter. This game could keep 3 or 4 kids happy and out of trouble unless it was MOMS looking for their mops.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Owl32 wrote:

I'am glad I have never played a video game. I pra... (show quote)

Then we invented helicopter parents, and kids quit having fun. I used to run an organized youth sports league. The kids understand the rules and what winning or losing is. No participation awards. Then the parents get involved and ruin their fun. Perhaps that is why we were happiest playing a game of stickball with a few friends and no adults around to much up the game.

teabag09

Owl32 wrote:

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My dad and I would go to the golf course and I'd shag golf balls for him with my ball glove. Even though my eyes aren't as good I still can see things others can't. I contribute that to eagle eying golf ball being hit in my direction from 250 or so yards. And yes, those were the good old days.

My sister and I walked 6 miles each way (across said golf course) to school when I was 8 and she was 7. Had oatmeal for breakfast every day and I can't remember either of us being really sick. Mike

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

teabag09 wrote:

My dad and I would go to the golf course and I'd shag golf balls for him with my ball glove. Even though my eyes aren't as good I still can see things others can't. I contribute that to eagle eying golf ball being hit in my direction from 250 or so yards. And yes, those were the good old days.

My sister and I walked 6 miles each way (across said golf course) to school when I was 8 and she was 7. Had oatmeal for breakfast every day and I can't remember either of us being really sick. Mike

Today's kids are getting worse eyesight from sitting inside and playing videos games instead of going outside and looking far off to the horizon.

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

dtucker300 wrote:

Think of the number of inner-center youth who never get a chance to go out into the wilderness, and instead spend most of their time playing videos games at home.

After I had more or less retired I worked one summer season for San Diego County Parks. The county has a lot of parks all over the county. There was a mountain lion in Penasquitos County Park that was living there at the time. In the mid ‘90’s it was and there were houses all along the edges of the park. In California PG&E used to have campgrounds for people. Don’t know if they still do that as people seem to be sue someone for a bent fingernail. Lots of opportunities if one just looks for them.
There are National Parks all over the place. California has nine. Utah has five. Great places to hike but they are really getting overcrowded here in Utah. Rather an inexpensive way to introduce your kids to something better than computer games. Leaves a lifetime of remembering fun times.

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

Owl32 wrote:

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I went to Hot Springs one year with a friend and spent the time water skiing on Lake Ouachita. His brother had a boat we got to use while we were there. Great fun and a good trip.

Kickaha Loc: Nebraska

I was born in 1958 and I remember a lot of the same things. My sense of direction got me into trouble a few times. Once when I was 5 or 6, I walked about 3 miles each way to my grandparents house then back home. I never got lost, but boy did I get in trouble. I also remember how privileged I felt when my parents let me have a 12 inch black and white television in my room. I also remember the remote control for our huge color television in the living room (25 inches). It was us kids. Mom or dad would say which of the 3 channels to turn to and one of us would walk over and turn the knob to the correct channel.

Owl32 Loc: ARK

FallenOak wrote:

I went to Hot Springs one year with a friend and spent the time water skiing on Lake Ouachita. His brother had a boat we got to use while we were there. Great fun and a good trip.

Arkansas has beautiful lakes in deep valleys surrounded by the wild, tall trees and rocks and farmland in the southern and eastern parts of the state which it is flat as a saucer. The Rivers, Mississippi, Arkansas, White, Illinois, Oucitaha,Red, Little Red,Saline and others. The first three all come togather in Desha County. This is the land of my birth and my childhood and I now live in the Northwestern part of the state on the White River's first lake,Beaver. To leave any of this is impossible. All people should all experience the REALNESS in life. GOD BLESS

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Kickaha wrote:

I was born in 1958 and I remember a lot of the sam... (show quote)

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

Owl32 wrote:

Arkansas has beautiful lakes in deep valleys surro... (show quote)

You sound like a very contented person. I was 65 before I moved from Southern California. Moved here to Southern Utah and got involved with volunteering. Great way to learn to know your new surroundings. We came here because my wife had ancestors that were sent to settle this part of the territory in the last half of the 1800’s. Here in St George the Great Basin, the Colorado Plateau, and the Mojave Desert all meet. Very diverse area. Got my first Jeep in 1958 and spent as many weekends and vacations as I could exploring in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts before I married.