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Lazy, carefree days:

Making daisy & buttercup chains
Mom packing us a picnic lunch, and spending all day at the swim holes
Hatching frog eggs in fishbowls, and then releasing them back into the waters when they sprouted just two legs
Making homemade rootbeer in glass bottles, and hearing a few pop their caps in the middle of the night - too much yeast, perhaps.
Tire Swings and old Oak trees
And, knowing when to come back home before the street lights came on

Just a few of my favourite things..

At age 7 washing my baby brother's diapers out on a scrub board.


Making the old chicken house a club house. Saving our pennies to have a marsh mellow roast We asked for bottles from the neighbors.
Once this old man ( a drunker) provided us a marsh mellow and wiener roast for washing his dishes in the pan of rain water.. Where he lived was once our place to play.An old house at the end of the road. Very isolated..All this is in the mountains. The mountains very beautiful in the fall.

This sounds like my childhood.

I remember my Mom packing our school lunch boxs with sandwiches wrapped in wax paper... it smelled so good in wax paper. This was before sandwich bags came out. Some years later our folks were able to pay for school cafeteria lunches which felt like eating at a restaurant.

Winning a bet at school in the seventh grade. I was dared to eat mustard and jello together.. Won money from a couple of girls. The thing was they didn't know I like my jello like that....lol

Watching American Bandstand, Soul Train and American Go_Go.

Clamp on skates

Do you remember Hullabaloo !

No I don't. I may have seen that one a time or two but the others were more what we watch. Step mom would sometimes join in with us and dance. Dad wasn't at home. He was gone to work or to some place like the pool hall or maybe to the beer joint.He may have even went to see his other woman..lol

That coal dust is hard to get off. When I was a teenage, married at the time. I would go with my father-in-law to pick up coal at the mines. They would dump over the hill so each truck that came to get coal from the slate pile would get some. I was so black from the dust .I still burn coal today. Hard to find good coal anymore..... I feel for all those who has black lung..

We had a slate pile here that burned for many years, it finely got put out.

My grandma made me dried apple pies and they were delicious!
The apples were dried using sulfur.