hunterridgefarm
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After reading Eddie Walker's thread about his 8 year old and new BB gun last night I started reminiscing about my BB gun and childhood and the rural life we lived.
And I remember...
Shooting bumble bees off sunflowers with my BB gun
Picking wild blackberries for home made pies
Playing for hours on the creek bank and building dams with rocks and sticks
Saving my milk money for school all week and on Friday getting off the bus at the little country store to buy a RC and cheese crackers for a quarter and getting change back
Thinking life could not get any better than this when they made the Triple Decker Moonpie
Swinging on vines in the woods, and using the heavy kid to test them first
Getting up at 6:00am on a Saturday to watch my favorite cowboy Roy Rogers and Trigger
Playing cowboys and Indians, making our on bows and arrows, putting river bank clay on the ends of the arrows and shooting at each other
Playing army and using dirt clods as grenades, you did not want to the group in the building beside the barn, you would come out with red dirt all over you
Nailing a board in a tree in the woods and calling it a tree house
Climbing saplings and parachuting down, just hoping the tree would not break
Standing up in the back of the truck and riding to grandmaws on Sunday for dinner, best fried chicken and biscuits ever made
Going to the Burger House once a month, fine dinning in your car
Looking for hours at the stars at night, before street lights were common, seems like there were a lot more stars in the sky back then
Laying in the yard on a hot summer day looking at the different shapes the clouds would make, look that is a bear, dog, man with a beard
The smell of gun powder on a crisp fall morning while squirrel hunting
Sneaking to the two ponds thru the woods to fish and bringing back a stringer of bass and sun perch
Working the horse drawn mowing machine being pulled behind the tractor by dad and cutting hay
Learning to drive in a hay field, 1952 Chevrolet 5 window pick-up truck, too small to lift the hay bales so I got to drive, couldn't wait to be big enough to throw the hay bales, until I was, then wished I could drive the truck
Taking a wagon and making a coasting go cart with a steering wheel, man would that thing fly down the hills
When I was allowed to mow the grass on the riding lawn mower, only had forward and reverse, but I was driving
Taping up one end of the Christmas wrapping paper tube and using it like a gun to shoot bottle rockets at each other, thank god we never got caught doing that
Playing freeze tag, football, baseball, and roller bat in the front yard
Being draged thru the yard after lassoing the cow that got out, tieing it to a tree in the woods till dad got home that afternoon. Lots of memories of being draded by cows, ran over by cows, bucked off horses...
Walking into the Smoke House and smelling the hams and bacon curing
The Rural Life, we didn''t have much but the life was simple and great back then
Thanks Eddie for bringing back some memories.
And I remember...
Shooting bumble bees off sunflowers with my BB gun
Picking wild blackberries for home made pies
Playing for hours on the creek bank and building dams with rocks and sticks
Saving my milk money for school all week and on Friday getting off the bus at the little country store to buy a RC and cheese crackers for a quarter and getting change back
Thinking life could not get any better than this when they made the Triple Decker Moonpie
Swinging on vines in the woods, and using the heavy kid to test them first
Getting up at 6:00am on a Saturday to watch my favorite cowboy Roy Rogers and Trigger
Playing cowboys and Indians, making our on bows and arrows, putting river bank clay on the ends of the arrows and shooting at each other
Playing army and using dirt clods as grenades, you did not want to the group in the building beside the barn, you would come out with red dirt all over you
Nailing a board in a tree in the woods and calling it a tree house
Climbing saplings and parachuting down, just hoping the tree would not break
Standing up in the back of the truck and riding to grandmaws on Sunday for dinner, best fried chicken and biscuits ever made
Going to the Burger House once a month, fine dinning in your car
Looking for hours at the stars at night, before street lights were common, seems like there were a lot more stars in the sky back then
Laying in the yard on a hot summer day looking at the different shapes the clouds would make, look that is a bear, dog, man with a beard
The smell of gun powder on a crisp fall morning while squirrel hunting
Sneaking to the two ponds thru the woods to fish and bringing back a stringer of bass and sun perch
Working the horse drawn mowing machine being pulled behind the tractor by dad and cutting hay
Learning to drive in a hay field, 1952 Chevrolet 5 window pick-up truck, too small to lift the hay bales so I got to drive, couldn't wait to be big enough to throw the hay bales, until I was, then wished I could drive the truck
Taking a wagon and making a coasting go cart with a steering wheel, man would that thing fly down the hills
When I was allowed to mow the grass on the riding lawn mower, only had forward and reverse, but I was driving
Taping up one end of the Christmas wrapping paper tube and using it like a gun to shoot bottle rockets at each other, thank god we never got caught doing that
Playing freeze tag, football, baseball, and roller bat in the front yard
Being draged thru the yard after lassoing the cow that got out, tieing it to a tree in the woods till dad got home that afternoon. Lots of memories of being draded by cows, ran over by cows, bucked off horses...
Walking into the Smoke House and smelling the hams and bacon curing
The Rural Life, we didn''t have much but the life was simple and great back then
Thanks Eddie for bringing back some memories.