Posted on May 26, 2015
What are your favorite summer memories from when you were a kid?
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My favorite memories were playing football with the neighbor kids. Every June my town had a parade with a carnival at the middle school then fireworks Sunday evening to end the weekend. Summer cookouts and just not having a care in the world. How I miss those days!
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Catching lightening bugs in a mason jar and watching them light up all night long. Running all over town without a care in the world. Miss them days.
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SCPO David Lockwood
The first time I did that I was about 3 and I was still sleeping in my mom and dads bedroom. My dad worked nights and when came home he saw them and thought he was seeing things! LOL
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SPC Michelyn Vien
My mother worked afternoons, when she checked on me one night she wasn't sure what was going on. After that either my mother or grandmother took them outside after I fell asleep. Lol
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Living on my Grandpa's farm --- spent every summer their when I was young.
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4th of July. It was the time when Dad would buy a case of soda pop (orange crush, grape nehi were two of our favorites) in the bottles. The only time of the year we got soda pop. The swimming pool was full ( yea we had one, but we weren't rich.) It was filled with an artisan spring we had on the ranch, so the water was always clear and cool. Mom would mix up some homemade ice cream, it was mine and my brother's job to turn the crank and freeze it (don't forget to keep the water hole open or the ice cream would taste salty). It was fried chicken (freshly killed the day before), new peas and potatoes. We usually ate outside on the picnic table. Later on towards evening we'd drive into Caldwell and watch the fireworks. When I was small it was at the old rodeo grounds down town, but then later it was moved out to Simplot stadium. What a fantastic memory.
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The end of harvest on the wheat ranch. It finally meant I got to have some fun! Camping trips. Swimming in the Columbia River. And summer league travel teams.
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My life revolved around sports as a child. Winters was ALWAYS Hockey, and summer was Soccer for the first 12 years, then 1 year lacrosse, then a combination of golfing and hockey camps. I have a lot of fond memories during those times. Made a lot of friends, broke a lot of hearts.
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SFC (Join to see)
Exactly. And I loved it. I really hope to instill things like this in my children.
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SCPO David Lockwood
I have done my best with my kids. Now I am working on my granddaughter to make sure she enjoys her childhood!
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Going on week-long, 50 mile hikes on the Appalachian Trail in the mountains of the Shenandoah. Bathing in cool streams, sleeping in the trail shelters and chasing bears away from the food cache hung in trees, making sassafras tea, the smell of the campfire, treating the feet of the younger boys in our scout troop who weren't used to hiking, and the laughter of the other boys as they teased each other like they always do. Quiet! So quiet at late at night. Just thinking about this makes my heart warm!
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