How did we survive?
Aug 4, 2015 09:32:21 #
Aug 4, 2015 11:46:28 #
Aug 4, 2015 12:22:20 #
Leaving the house in summer with a workmans lunch pail with a couple of ham or baloney sandwiches and a themos of sweet coffee. Pedaling the bike up to 15 miles to sneak into the lake area and swimming out to the raft. Staying out all day and like it said, not coming back until dark.
Loved it.
Even let my kids play outside and get dirty and washed hands before eating. Never sick enough to miss school and healthy as hell to this day.
Life was, and is, good.
Sarge69
Loved it.
Even let my kids play outside and get dirty and washed hands before eating. Never sick enough to miss school and healthy as hell to this day.
Life was, and is, good.
Sarge69
Aug 4, 2015 14:54:58 #
Aug 4, 2015 15:24:26 #
Bultaco wrote:
http://vimeo.com/52231459
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Roaming with my friend through the country side around my grandparent's farm with a tackle box, rod&reel and a .22.
Aug 4, 2015 18:09:34 #
robertjerl wrote:
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Roaming with my friend through the country side around my grandparent's farm with a tackle box, rod&reel and a .22.
Roaming with my friend through the country side around my grandparent's farm with a tackle box, rod&reel and a .22.
One of my jobs was to bring home dinner, Kansas jackrabbits. Took five .22 long rifle shells, one Marlin single-shot .22 rifle, and if I didn't bring back 5 rabbits, dad took me out to the country, and I had to shoot the rest of the box of 45 shells, improving my aim at every shot, until dad was satisfied I would do better next time out. After the 3rd box of shell (I had to buy them with money I earned mowing lawns, running errands, etc.,) I ALWAYS brought back 5 rabbits. Now, we could not always eat them because some of them would have wends (feel balls of something under the fur - and you could get very sick from them - they were burnt).
Grew up in Greeley County Kansas, 12 miles from the Colorado line, I knew every crest (not a lot of them), gully (quite a few of them) in that county. I was all over it, mostly on foot, hunting rabbits, and later, coyotes with a 30-30. Loved it.
Wonder why I qualified expert rifleman 12 years in a row in the A.F.?
Aug 4, 2015 20:07:25 #
Glad you enjoyed it. I was raised on a ranch , from the fifth grade on I spent all day on a horse bring in tn the bullers.
Aug 5, 2015 09:35:48 #
ole sarg
Loc: south florida
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
Socrates
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
Socrates
Aug 5, 2015 13:14:25 #
ole sarg wrote:
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
Socrates
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
Socrates
That certainly describes 99% of the children I know
Aug 5, 2015 17:15:55 #
A small-city kid, all of my older relatives, and cousins were farm folks. On visits, I'd get up at 4 - 4:30 a.m., go to the barn with an older male cousin and an uncle, with only a kerosene lantern for light. I'd walk through and breathe horse and cow dung, while I watched my elders milk the cows and feed hay to the horses.
Breakfast was loaded with fat and calories: a platter full of sunnyside up fried eggs, platters stacked high with made-from-scratch baking powder biscuits to be buttered and heaped with honey; fried bacon and fresh cow's milk to drink...how did I ever survive to be 88 years old and in reasonably good health, and mobile so's I can walk my two dogs for 30 minutes twice a day?
Breakfast was loaded with fat and calories: a platter full of sunnyside up fried eggs, platters stacked high with made-from-scratch baking powder biscuits to be buttered and heaped with honey; fried bacon and fresh cow's milk to drink...how did I ever survive to be 88 years old and in reasonably good health, and mobile so's I can walk my two dogs for 30 minutes twice a day?
Aug 5, 2015 17:26:30 #
We survived breakfests and meals like that because we were active from first light to no light. Running, jumping, swimming, hiking. We didn't exercise because we were active and not on our iphones or laptops or sitting playing games.
Sarge69
Sarge69
Aug 6, 2015 03:00:35 #
Aug 6, 2015 09:13:56 #
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