X Spot
X marks the spot. Well, sort of. A favorite pastime other than sports growing up was 'playing army'. We'd dress up in all our military gear and head out on our clandestine maneuvers. We were always looking for twists to make it as realistic as we could. We were always on the search for 'ememy maps' that would reveal the location for our moves. I can't remember who actually did it but one of the gang pulled the bark off an old apple tree to reveal what looked to me some sort of a map, with the location of their troops marked out. It showed little pathways that lead us to a large rock in our backyard. Truth be told of course, the pathways noted were really made by bugs working under the bark, but that didn't bother us. This was a map showing the enemy's location. We actually went to the large rock, dug around its base and found some sort of small chain. What was that all about? We talked about that 'find' for weeks. Then, of course, it was back to the reality of 12 year olds. Baseball, baseball, and more baseball at Gullivers.
Summers were so long.
Wonderful Summer memories
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Well spotted, both words and photo ;-)
ReplyDeleteThe passage of time is altered as we grow older; no such thing as a loooong summer these days!
ReplyDeleteoh, such adventure!
ReplyDeleteGreat memories! Summers are so much shorter now.
ReplyDeleteahhhhh kids have such great imaginations! we used to love to play school in the summer lol
ReplyDeleteI lived in Los Angeles in those days and we played mostly "cowboys and Indians," because of all the western movies we saw - our heroes were Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, etc.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking it was a target for throwing a ball - strike 1. ;-)
ReplyDeleteYou made me think of the time as a child my sisters and I found an old metal box buried in the back yard. Inside was a watch all rusty and falling apart and some papers that you could no longer make out. It turned out that it was a box my dad had buried in the yard when he was a kid and he had forgotten all about it.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't that mean its about to go?
ReplyDeleteI do think time moves faster as we grow older.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Michelle, much faster.
ReplyDeleteAll that from an X in a box? Your mind works in odd ways, but at least it works.
ReplyDeleteYoung boys around here are now playing at being zombie hunters. Uh huh.
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