[CaptJohn]

Originally Posted by pooh

I did fall out of a tree...I don't recommend it!
My sister, brother and I grew up at the coast and the beach played an important part of our "play time." Swimming, row boating, fishing, floating on innertubes, were things that we did...as well as bicycling, rollerskating, sledding and ice skating in winter (little swamp "lakes" near the shore froze early and solidly). I do remember playing cowboys and each of us would have a small piece of rope in our hands...they were the reins of our horses. Games of jump rope, red rover, etc, were played more at school than at home....at home we were more on the go than not.

Much of this sounds very familiar to me since I grew up at Pensacola Bay and Pensacola Beach. Lots of beach and boating stuff along with canoes. It helped that I was in the Sea Explorer Scouts. Got a speedometer for the bike and put over 1,000 miles on it. Only time I saw snow was once in the early 50's (pretty rare in Florida) until I was an adult.
When younger we'd jump off the garage roof and pretend it was parachuting. Never fell out of a tree but climbed many. Played cowboys. Also in playing army we'd throw D cell batteries at each other as hand grenades (we at least had enough sense to wear real helmets!).