Things you miss from the "good old days"?

[grouchy]

Being able to play with firecrackers in the vacant lot next door...

Bottle rocket wars...

It just wasn't July 4th till one of us kids stepped on a hot sparkler barefoot.

I love fireworks. Always have, always will. The problem is the idiots from towns come out in the country, pull off the road and start doing them with no consideration of fire dangers. Several of us out here watch for those folks and go tell them of the danger. Some of them move on quietly, occasionally some get an attitude. We have ways of handling those folks.

[millergrovesue]

Fortunately we are far enough from the interstate that we don't get city folks. We do have a few neighbors with not a single functional brain cell.

[GRANDPA]

Manners & civility.

[crocmommy]

Being able to play with firecrackers in the vacant lot next door...

Bottle rocket wars...

Fizzies (my 9th grade science teacher never did figure out why the water in her fish tank turned colors and her fish kept dying)

baseball cards in the spokes of your bicycle

in 4th grade (1968) riding my bike ALL over Arlington...

The Leonard's subway

Playing pickup football games on the high school football field, before and after your playing career...

cap pistols < bb guns < pellet guns < 22 rifle < AR15

Did you know that one of the Leonards Subway cars is being restored (or might already be done). M&O Grill over here by my office has a little museum with information on that.

[bodine]

Being able to play with firecrackers in the vacant lot next door...

Bottle rocket wars...

Fizzies (my 9th grade science teacher never did figure out why the water in her fish tank turned colors and her fish kept dying)

baseball cards in the spokes of your bicycle

in 4th grade (1968) riding my bike ALL over Arlington...

The Leonard's subway

Playing pickup football games on the high school football field, before and after your playing career...

cap pistols < bb guns < pellet guns < 22 rifle < AR15

Did you know that one of the Leonards Subway cars is being restored (or might already be done). M&O Grill over here by my office has a little museum with information on that.

KEWL!

Hope ya'll had a good time in Galveston...

[crocmommy]

Being able to play with firecrackers in the vacant lot next door...



The Leonard's subway

Playing pickup football games on the high school football field, before and after your playing career...

cap pistols < bb guns < pellet guns < 22 rifle < AR15

Did you know that one of the Leonards Subway cars is being restored (or might already be done). M&O Grill over here by my office has a little museum with information on that.

KEWL!

Hope ya'll had a good time in Galveston...

It was odd where they found the last remaining Subway car...in someone's field I think. How does that happen.

Thanks, we had a nice time in Galveston....despite the all the drama of the family who invited us to stay with them.

[millergrovesue]

One thing no one wants or needs is another family's drama.

[crocmommy]

One thing no one wants or needs is another family's drama.

I mainly handled it by taking my girls out myself instead of hanging with the group. The one day we all went to the beach as a group, the other parents seemed to be more interested in their cell phones than the safety of their children swimming in the ocean. But if I was willing to stay out in the water watching my girls which would include watching theirs, then why should they bother getting off their phones? So I took my own children to the beach the next time. i truly enjoy being out in the water with my girls, but don't want to be responsible for everyone's kids in the water.

[millergrovesue]

i truly enjoy being out in the water with my girls, but don't want to be responsible for everyone's kids in the water.

And you can be pretty danged sure it anything happened to the kids they are ignoring the would come after you with a vengeance. Honestly, why in the world do self absorbed people procreate? I just don't get it.

[crocmommy]

i truly enjoy being out in the water with my girls, but don't want to be responsible for everyone's kids in the water.

And you can be pretty danged sure it anything happened to the kids they are ignoring the would come after you with a vengeance. Honestly, why in the world do self absorbed people procreate? I just don't get it.

I should have known that there would be a problem when my husband's stepbrother set up tarps with chairs under then. You can't watch your kids swimming sitting in a chair in the shade. Perhaps if they had to sit out in the sun with no shade they would have been out in the water with their kids where they belonged.

[bodine]

For some reason, farmers have tended to use old railcars as storage sheds/hay barns. I guess because they are built stronger because of the stresses inherent in their original purpose. Probably available dirt cheap, too...

[Red Oak]

Or Tequila ?

[millergrovesue]

For some reason, farmers have tended to use old railcars as storage sheds/hay barns. I guess because they are built stronger because of the stresses inherent in their original purpose. Probably available dirt cheap, too...

One of my clients sells those. They aren't exactly cheap but probably cheaper than building a traditional building. But they don't allow air circulation so I would think they wouldn't be good for hay or grain storage. I wonder how they would work as tornado shelters.

[bodine]

For some reason, farmers have tended to use old railcars as storage sheds/hay barns. I guess because they are built stronger because of the stresses inherent in their original purpose. Probably available dirt cheap, too...

One of my clients sells those. They aren't exactly cheap but probably cheaper than building a traditional building. But they don't allow air circulation so I would think they wouldn't be good for hay or grain storage. I wonder how they would work as tornado shelters.

Didn't think about air circulation and hay. The old refrigerator cars were well insulated, and had roof hatches and ice chutes; there were a bunch of them scattered on farms and ranches along the right of way along the Santa Fe in West Texas...