Swimming lessons every morning at the town beach during the summer...home for lunch (had to wait an hour) then walked up to the swimming hole just up the street....sometimes delayed getting there if the raspberry bushes along the way had ripe fruit.
rushing home from school to put your play clothes on and get down to the field in back of a couple of houses to play baseball until it was so dark you couldn't see the ball...or the older sisters came down and told us to all get home
a week of summer camp....playing marathon games of Monopoly in the basement when it was in the 90's outside
listening to my mother say "why does this ice cream truck have to come every single day just as we're sitting down for supper?"
eating beans and franks EVERY Saturday night
digging for worms and catching buckets of 'blue gills'
building snow forts and sliding down the hill on the street that we lived on....before the days when the town sanded and salted the roads
clearing the ponds off and playing hockey without any equipment beyond a stick and a puck
playing cops and robbers with toy guns in the woods
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