Things you miss from the "good old days"?

[Mark]

I miss the time when America wasn't inhabited by a bunch of pussies.

[Jami]

Fireflies, havent seen on in many years. They used to be all around Grapevine lake!

We've been seeing quite a few around our house this year.

[ralph]

right on Mark !!

[grouchy]

Fireflies, havent seen on in many years. They used to be all around Grapevine lake!

We've been seeing quite a few around our house this year.

We have them out here. The grandkids love to catch them. They do it the same way we did when we were kids.

[millergrovesue]

Oh my yes - we called them lightning bugs.

I miss my Mom being home when I got out of school. I could tell her all the adventures of the day.

Hanging out at the swimming pool all day. Walking home to have a peanut butter and jelly rolled up sandwich and going back to the pool.

Hours and hours of Canasta played by the pool.

The radio singers announcing "Time to turn................over". Which is one of the reasons why my skin is so wrinkled and splotchy today -- but it was sure great at the time.

Barton Springs & Deep Eddy! COLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Too expensive to visit often but wonderful when we could.

[grouchy]

Being on a discussion board with Cactushopper.

[millergrovesue]

Being on a discussion board with Cactushopper.

He is certainly a character. I liked Hopper.

[grouchy]

Being on a discussion board with Cactushopper.

He is certainly a character. I liked Hopper.

A very good man.

[crocmommy]

Miss going camping in the travel trailer with my grandparents. They took my brother and I to some neat places. And sitting outside playing dominoes and cards at night was always fun with them.

[millergrovesue]

Summer "fort" building and block against block "wars". Got ugly when some kid got the bright idea to stick a rock in the mud ball.
Playing monkeys in the Sycamore trees in front of our house. We built leaf beds in the trees and spent hours and hours up there.
Homemade ice cream made in the back yard! We kids took turns sitting on top of the freezer when it got hard for the adults to turn the handle.
Being able to see one of the moonlight towers (about 3 miles away) from my bedroom window.
Water skiing on Lake Austin with my best friends, whose father owned a ski boat and a houseboat.
Pre teen and early teen - finally saving up enough money ($1.50 per hour) to go to Circle B and ride my favorite horses, Flea and Dixie.
Did I already mention.........working at G Bar G riding stable, with my friend Julie, and drinking Dr. Peppers and Orange Crush so cold there were ice crystals in every bottle.
When I was about 17 - riding my horse (given to me by a friend of my sister) down Bee Caves Road to Zilker Park and riding up Barton Creek, above the pool.

[bodine]

Talk radio that was talk/discussion/fun and not diatribe - KMC was the best...

My kids being in high school (I do not like being an empty nester!!!)

Cars that you could work on without plugging into a computer...

Hauling hay for 5 cents a bale...

[Red Oak]

AOR Radio Stations that had a cool Program Director

[jellowrestling]

My life has never been better than it is right now, but I miss my grandparents, my two late uncles, and the family get-togethers we had. My oldest cousin talked to me last year about setting up a family reunion. I think I may make that my first retirement project.

[bodine]

I'll second missing grandparents. My maternal grandmother died right after I started working, so she never met my wife or saw her great grandchildren. And she was my favorite. Her husband lived to see me get married, but he was long gone before my kids got here.

I had a neat set of great aunts and uncles; I lost my last great aunt last year at the age of 99; she swore she was going to make 100, but she didn't quite make it. She was a pistol...

[millergrovesue]

It's wonderful to have fond memories of grandparents. My Mom's parents lived in West Virginia. I saw them twice. My Dad's dad was deceased before we were born. My Dad's mother was a pure D Bitch. She loved my sister but hated all her daughters-in-law and hated me because it was too active. She did spend time with us and we walked all over Austin but she only took me along when she had no choice.

[crackertoes]

AOR Radio Stations that had a cool Program Director

Yeah, 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

[grouchy]

Hearing Tommy Lot play the trumpet at the beginning of every Cowboy home game.

[millergrovesue]

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.

[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.