Most of my good times,were back in the day..My memories,and good times of this day and age,are not what I want to call fantastic....

I am listening to the wonderful (NOT) weather forecast on TV for Pittsburgh PA & they are using another nasty, four-lettered word - SNOW !! Does anyone remember ...

Back in the Day.. In 1950 (were you even born yet?) when we had one of the largest recorded snow storms ever in our PA history?? I was 6 yrs old living on a farm in the Appalachian Foot Hills. The snow in our yard was SO deep that my 11 yr brother & I made "snow tunnels" throughout yard & actually crawled through them! And our farmhouse was at the top of the hill & our 'yard' ran down over the side of it.

That should give you an idea of how mush SNOW there really was.as this was on an incline! We didn't go to school for well over 2 weeks bec we lived in the Boonies. Even tho plenty of tractors had snow plows, it took that long for the farmers to get to each others houses by plowing the road. The SNOW just kept coming & coming & coming & ...

We HAD a BLAST - A SNOW BOUND WINTER BLAST !!!

NDY

I recall a more recent bad snow - October 4th, 1988...a freak storm that blew through and knocked down several trees and took out the power for over a week. My parents decided we'd head to my grandparents in Bristol CT and so we packed some stuff into our Nissan Stanza wagon which fortunately had a trunk like most SUV's that was within the car so we could get our dog Buster into the car too. There were trees down everywhere so we had to change routes at one point and our car got stuck in a bad patch of snow and my dad had to get out and try to push the car and we could hear trees snapping and breaking along the side of the road. I was literally in the back seat writing out my will trying to figure out who I would leave my Barbies to. Of course, we all made it to my grandparents in one piece and they luckily had power and were happy to have us all there, including Buster. They were probably even happier when we went back home!

Ah, good times...

I played Red Rover
Kick the can
hopscotch
marbles
hula hoop
frisbee-that still is played
ring around the rosie
london bridge
jacks
freeze tag
tag games
simon says

oh and jump rope!
used to all the time, or a bunch of us girls would do school jump rope, jump to K-garten, first grade, take turns, see how far you could go without messing up, having to start over

2 girls would hold rope we jump, you ever see those jump rope competitions?
WOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jxlR6MB_qU&feature=related

Back in the day, my day, we never locked the door. We knew all the neighbors and our telephone was a "party line." You had to wait your turn to call someone....not the kind where you call to meet someone. LOL

Back in the day(40's) every housewife did various chores on certain day ie. Monday= wash day, Tuesday = Ironing day etc. I remember being on the floor by the ironing board in front of a big console(floor model) radio while my mother ironed and listened to soap operas on the radio. I even remember a couple of there names "Our Gal Sunday", "Helen Trent" they were sponsered by Spry vegetable shortening(the forerunner of Crisco and Rinso laundry detergent. I later learned the reason they were call "soap operas" is because they were originally sponcered by soap manufacturers

Remember the smell of fresh laundry? Hiding in the backyard and running through the clotheslines?

(This Reply is taken from Boomers Plus "As a child ------ We're you a picky eater? "
As a child I was raised on a farm! (Some of the other foods mentioned were from the "other Picky Eaters" in the Boomers Plus group!)

Suppertime was a race to "get it while you can!" That is, when you were a little girl, in the group of "Brothers" as my mom raised my aunt's sons when she passed away and they were young to older teens, n addition to my older brother. Manners were very lacking in spite of my mother's scoldings!

I also had food allergies that limited some of the foods that I was allowed. Thankfully, I 'out grew' the majority of them. Since I had my gastric bypass surgery they are practically non-existent! I can even have fresh pineapples and anything tomato!

I loved any kind of beets & beans a fore mentioned. Also, my mom would send us out into the meadow with a box or a sack to pick wild greens that were there.We enjoyed purslane, sorrel, lamb's collar, dandelion & all sorts of "wllted salads" made with fresh cured bacon & home made vinegar from our own apples!
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( Did any body else here have to dip dead chickens in hot boiling water over a burning wood pile to pull their nasty wet feathers out? It wasn't until I had my first child at 29 before I could stand the smell of chicken cooking. And not even then if I was pregnant!

We had a regular 'assembly line'! My dad would chop off their heads; my brother tied them upside down kickin on the clothesline so they would bleed out; then my step brother and I got the privilege with pullin the feathers out; they then would be taken inside to my grandma who would "gut them"; and, my mom would rinse them with water for an ice glaze & into the freezer they went! )

The only thing fresh vegetable I have a problem with is green beans and yellow wax beans. Probably bec I ate so many so long as they practically grew themselves! I rarely eat them even with the mushroom soup & french fried onions on them!

Oh! I almost forgot - I hate most frozen vegetables bec my dad got my Mom the most humongus chest freezer ever! To this day - I can almost taste the ice in those lifeless vegetables. I can usually eat the steamers though. They aren't too evil!

NDY

Founded by our Foxysdad - Advisor Admin. Here is a Hot Link to Boomers Plus which I also belong to!
http://www.dailystrength.org/groups/boomers-plus/discussions

My first job was when I was 13. I was a waitress in a small KS town and worked all kinds of hours and worked various positions. Back then we'd get a quarter tip from the coffee drinkers. Might get 50 or 75 cents during lunch. Oh, the money I made!

I remember when I was about 6 yrs old on the farm. My grandma stayed with us a while. I would sit underneath the quilting frame with 6 quilters at it and play with my dolls, listening to the hum & drone of their voices until i would fall asleep & take my nap right under the frame on the carpet !

It was called< "A Quilting Bee" for that very reason!

NDY

I always hated "back in my day" stories, but I am so glad I listened to them. I was a lucky little girl, I had 3 sets of grand parents when I was born, in their 40s, 60s and 70s, so they had very different stories. Great Grandma used to tell of the "trail of tears" where her people were forced to walk from North Carolina all the way to Oklahoma, Great Grandpa used to tell of his family owning slaves and how it was not right to own a person. My dad's parents were from Italy and France, so they had "old country" stories, and my mom's parents were still young and talked about the big war and swing dancing.

Back in my day...

I remember writing thank you notes for Christmas presents

having the chain of my bike break and a stranger fixing it, he knew me was because I looked like my dad

for a quarter you could get a bag of chips and a soda in a returnable bottle, deposit was a nickle, but they would "trust you" for it

TV stations went off at midnight, except Friday night, The Midnight Special with Wolfman Jack was on
we had 2 tv channels NBC and CBS

in the summer we would sleep on Grandma's porch, I always called the swing, we felt very secure with that hook and eye lock on the screen door:]

I remember the first time I heard the "F" word, I was in 4th grade in the bathroom and this "fast" girl was telling us all about "sexing", she scared me to death, I told my mom I wanted to be a nun, we weren't catholic

Hi. I'm new here. I was just reading some posts trying to get to know you all and after reading this thread I couldn't help but remember when I was about 6 and ran to the 5 and 10 Store everytime my grandmother gave me a dollar. I'd go home with a bag of 10 to 20 toys! My cousin and I used to have a competition to see who could get the most for their money. I remember too, saving my $2.00 allowance to buy pants when girls were first allowed to wear pants to school. The pants were $6.00!

Oh yeh ~ the ladies room! Oh the tales in there! I'll start out with my "grade school ladies room memory". I was in 6th gradejk and we had just moved down from the farm to the city. My mom was'n' too "with-it" like some of the other city -moms. All the city girls wore lipstick.. Of course, I wasn't allowed..

I had "borrowed" my mother's bright red lipstick from he bathroom. And because this bathroom had a big old-fashioned ledge-style sink so I had to climb up on the sink. While i was applying the lipstick one of my new friends thumped me on the back real hard saying, "Atta Girl!"

Well, at that point the lipstick zipped up from my lips and right up the side of my nose! I had a huge thick, bright red stripe up the side of my nose! And since it was "Hazel Bishop's Indelible Fire Engine-Red Lip Stick that boasted durability _ It had lasting effect!s. Needless to say, my mom found out big - time! And I never wore lipstick again until the middle of 7h grade!

If I remember correctly she felt I had been punished enough wearing the stripe all the rest of the day at school. And, of course, my older brothers never let me live it down either!!

NDY