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Simpler times, just reflecting back a bit!
pabooger
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As I set here copying my old movies to dvd, I am reminded of things gone by! There is Poppy showing the kids how to make cider in his homemade cider press, us kids cranking our fool arms off on the old icecream maker! My grandfather cultivating his garden with the old push cultivator, he didn't need no fancy rototiller! Sledding downhill on cardboard boxes and car hoods hell we didn't know what a sled was! Then there are us four boys sitting on the steps at Easter time all holding one of those dye colored baby chick!
Then there were the guys who worked for the township standing on the back of a truck spreading cinders on the icy road with a shovel, hell these guys didn't need no fancy plow truck! How about old Tom Givan's, he was the richest guy in the county and if you looked at him you would swear he was the poorest! He wore old rags for clothes, and drove an old jeep! I remember him walking over to the crick by our house everyday to feed the fish!
The big excitement for us kids on the weekends was sitting on the curb and watching the stock cars go by on there way to the local track! Then there were the games of capture the flag, endless baseball games, hell we were out playing from dusk to dawn! We didn't need no video games to entertain us!
I can still see Gramma Wirtz and Gramma Shippey sitting on the front porch in their house dress's and aprons, snapping beans, or shucking pea's! How about them house dresses anybody remember them? Gramma used to dye her hair and for some reason it was always blue!!! We used to have cookouts, and used firewood or charcoal, there weren't any gas grills! The food tasted much better as well!
I often wonder, will my kids look back at this time in there lives when things are so hectic, and stressfull, and look at it as simpler times? I think not! I think this experience will be lost when our generation passes on!
Things are nice now, with all the new fancy contraptions and medical breakthroughs and such, but this is one guy that longs for the days when life was much simpler!
Guess Ive rambled enough!
Pa.
LIFES MOSTLY SCARS AND SOUVENIR'S - Max Stalling
To Ride, shoot straight,and speak the truth
This was the Ancient law of Youth
Old times are past, old times are done:
But the Law runs true, O little son!
Then there were the guys who worked for the township standing on the back of a truck spreading cinders on the icy road with a shovel, hell these guys didn't need no fancy plow truck! How about old Tom Givan's, he was the richest guy in the county and if you looked at him you would swear he was the poorest! He wore old rags for clothes, and drove an old jeep! I remember him walking over to the crick by our house everyday to feed the fish!
The big excitement for us kids on the weekends was sitting on the curb and watching the stock cars go by on there way to the local track! Then there were the games of capture the flag, endless baseball games, hell we were out playing from dusk to dawn! We didn't need no video games to entertain us!
I can still see Gramma Wirtz and Gramma Shippey sitting on the front porch in their house dress's and aprons, snapping beans, or shucking pea's! How about them house dresses anybody remember them? Gramma used to dye her hair and for some reason it was always blue!!! We used to have cookouts, and used firewood or charcoal, there weren't any gas grills! The food tasted much better as well!
I often wonder, will my kids look back at this time in there lives when things are so hectic, and stressfull, and look at it as simpler times? I think not! I think this experience will be lost when our generation passes on!
Things are nice now, with all the new fancy contraptions and medical breakthroughs and such, but this is one guy that longs for the days when life was much simpler!
Guess Ive rambled enough!
Pa.
LIFES MOSTLY SCARS AND SOUVENIR'S - Max Stalling
To Ride, shoot straight,and speak the truth
This was the Ancient law of Youth
Old times are past, old times are done:
But the Law runs true, O little son!
Comments
Big Daddy my heros have always been cowboys,they still are it seems
"Right is Right, even is everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it"
When your youngsters are your age they'll look back to "now",
and remember the same simple times we speak of,
because their world will be even more complicated as time moves on.
Pity the thought, huh? [;)]
They will look back and say "man do you remember gasolene/diesel powered cars/trucks, they must have been like dinosuars"
That looking back is history and does repeat itself. It should never be forgotten, photos, recordings, journals, etc.
Write it down,record it, whatever, but dont let them forget from where they came and the good times that they did have growing into adults.
Their children might even ask "what is a gun" [:(]
Bolt
PEACE THROUGH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER
But I won't for the kids sake!!![:I]
LIFES MOSTLY SCARS AND SOUVENIR'S - Max Stalling
To Ride, shoot straight,and speak the truth
This was the Ancient law of Youth
Old times are past, old times are done:
But the Law runs true, O little son!
Just think of how many movies one could get on one of those babies.[:D]
Bolt
PEACE THROUGH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER