Trying to go to sleep last night I started thinking about the outdoor games we played in the 1950's and how sad it seems to me that my great-grands may never enjoy this kind of simple fun, preferring cableTV, computers and electronic games.
How many of you remember playing Fox and Geese after a nice big snow?
And just making huge snowmen and snow forts?
Or Red Rover in the warmer months?
Also Kick the Can?
Annie, Annie Over?
Crack the Whip?
Roller skating up and down the sidewalks and back and forth to school with our skate key on a string around our necks. It was the height of fashion to make a braided chain out of yarn or string for your key.
Also Kick the Can?
Annie, Annie Over?
Crack the Whip?
Roller skating up and down the sidewalks and back and forth to school with our skate key on a string around our necks. It was the height of fashion to make a braided chain out of yarn or string for your key.
Hour and hours spent in the municipal swimming pool playing Bird Catch (though I have no idea why we called it that or exactly what the rules were..basically a tag game).
What fun times we had growing up in a small Iowa town when it was safe for kids to be gone for hours without cell phones to keep in touch.
Parents didn't have to max out credit cards to buy Christmas presents for us. I even got the same doll for more than one Christmas. I told that story here
In this picture my cousin Phyllis is holding that doll, with my sister and me sitting behind her.
Miss those simple days!
Lastly, because this is a quilting blog..a couple of pics of the progress being made in quilting the borders on Dutch Treat #3. Two borders done..two more to go and then bind the scalloped edge. !
Think I'll make it by the end of the year? "2011" is appliqued on the botton border, so I'd better
