[skyguy79]

If I tried to list everything I did as a kid I would ruin several years of therapy, but I'll try to list a few.

Besides the usual items like baseball, football, basketball and walking the railroad tracks, l can remember using a sandbox and building castles where we would hide a king (stick) within what we built. There were two castles facing each other built by two different teams. With a medium-small stone we would then take turns tossing the stone at each others castle trying to bury their king. The first to bury the others king was the winner.

I also played golf using a bow and arrow. I'd place a hoola hoop on the ground, move a distance away as far as safely possible, then I'd see how many shots it took to make it into the hoop! Never joined the PAGA (Pro-Archery Golf Association) though!

Anybody ever shoot baseball cards against a wall, closest to wall took all the cards? That was fun... mostly when you were winning!

We lived where the Erie Canal began off of the Hudson River and the locks had what's called spillways to serve the movement of water in and out of the locks. We used to like going skinny dipping in the spillway, and being young the only worry we had when doing so is that the eels in the water might go looking for a meal of worms... if ya know what I mean!

I loved climbing trees & jungle bars back then, the higher the better; should have been born a monkey. I had three favorite trees to climb and sit in for give or take about 20 minutes when things were slow. One of the trees, overlooking the Hudson River, was my most favorite.

And yes Gracie, I too was frequently picked last, but that was only when I was the only one playing... usually!