I remember.

As I sit here typing, little doves are cooing outside my window. I love the sweet, gentle sound they make. It reminds me of my childhood when I was free to roam around my little hometown with no fear of crime or worry about the world of grownups. To be small enough to cut through peoples yards on my way to my friends houses without a problem of "what the hell you doing in---." Finding a dime on the ground and gleefully going to Brownstones to buy two candy bars. Getting my first bike at nine and having the world (well, the whole town)at my fingertips much faster than on foot. Any number of adventures my friend Richard and I had that I know were so much fun. Swimming pool in the summer when the temp reached one hundred or better. And always in the background----the little doves cooed.


It seems so long ago and all gone now. But I hope there are little children running free and making sweet memories to recall later in life. I hope they can hear the doves cooing. I hope they pay attention to them.

 

awwwwwhhhhhhhh....so beautifully written........as always, you are a master with writing.......

I get the same feelings when hearing the mourning doves.......and certain things just time travel me back to another magical world and time.....one that I wish will always be....

 

got some doves here too...they like to make those damn noises right when im trying to sleep...makes me want to shoot them in the face

 

(To post two)Thank you sweetheart. I wish all children could have wonderful childhoods.

 

And thanks for the sentiment bbad.

 

sometimes i wonder what ill be like if i get old...i cant imagine getting more curmudgeony than i already am

 

I thought maybe I would be too---but I think I have resisted being so. At least I hope so.

 

Two candy bars for a dime! That's down right subversive! errrrr I mean historical! I had a Dairy Queen between home and the candy store. lol

 

They taste good also.

 

I'm sure there are kids making good memories everywhere

For us, childhood is long gone, but kids now still love to do the things we did, although sadly with less freedom to roam. Climb that tree, splash in the sea, eat some ice cream.....

 

now there's something i miss


my grandparents always treated me a little better than my siblings and cousins..probably because i was the youngest on that side of the family

i miss going to the dairy queen with them...they would always pick me up when they were going there

 

Some of the youngins won't understand, but before the world was so full of entertainment, my gramma and grampa and me would drive 50-60 miles to see vast fields of California poppies with blue lupines thrusting their heads above the poppies. Big day out.

 

I recall many afternoons me and my kid brother spent with my grandparents playing ludo. It was a big thing. Hard to imagine now.

 

I remember 'Lets Pretend 'on Saturday mornings. "plunk your magic twanger FROGEEE!" And we were off on some adventure.

 

When I stayed with Mom's parents we had lots of entertainment, Granddad was a stationmaster for the KATY RR and if I got bored hanging out there the first Dr. Pepper bottling plant was next door to the depot and across from our house was the rodeo grounds winter home of the Madison Square Garden Rodeo. Saturdays we had the Lone Ranger, Amos and Andy and other great radio shows to listen to.

 

It all makes you wonder if kids today aren't overwhelmed by too much media..and media that's too graphic. At one time we had to use our imagination to see a dragon. Now you can go see 'The Hobbit'. And my feeling is that maybe we're the poorer for that in the end.

 

I like that Scratcho.

I don't remember the sounds of doves... but I do remember running around w no fear throughout town w my friends when we were very young.... cutting through people's yards- everyone cut through people's yards and all the kids knew each other and played together in the neighborhood and no one got cranky bout kids in their yards. And I also remember.... penny candy! Stopping after school @ an old school pharmacy right on Main St and going to the counter and picking out penny candy...and candy for 5 cents every day... all the kids went there after school.

 

Ahh,,memories,,

I must have been high when I posted this.

Thought it was funneh,,

Sorry to mess up a nice thread. I deleted it.

I'll have to reign in my stand-up routine.

Birds? I feed them, every day. We put raw sunflower seed kernels out on the back porch in little piles, every day. Now we have around 20 birds visiting our porch daily, including regular house sparrows, red-heads, yellow heads, a couple of mourning doves, a few hummingbirds, and periodically now, a family of hawks looking for prey visits the neighborhood. Then all the little birds tend to hide out in the bushes, or scatter here and there.

I like watching the mating dances we get to see on the back fence, and the dads or moms feeding their big, fluffy babies.

That reminds me. I was "fluffy bud" on another site, in a galaxy far, far away and long ago.

Memories,,

 

I just paid a dollar for a chocolate bar that used to cost 10 cents. i.e. I could have bought 10 bars for the price of one

Fuck inflation it’s a goddamn conspiracy


Hotwater

 

Yep, go to a convenience store and buy a regular candy bar and you pay $1... Somehow that still always annoys me cause it wasn't that many years ago that they used to be half that much.