July 8, 201016 yr Walking up to the Ft. Mitchell Drug Shoppe with my friends to buy baseball cards, soft drinks and Big League Chew. Playing spotlight in the evenings with the neighborhood kids in the summer time. Thursday night swim meets. Building forts in the woods. Holding on to my fishing pole and tackle box with one hand while holding the handlebar of my bike with the other and riding to the one good fishing pond in the cemetery - there were 4 ponds, only one good one. Water skiing and tubing at East Fork Lake on Sunday afternoons with my family. Playing pickle and homerun derby. Hitting lightning bugs with wiffleball bats. Believing in Santa Claus. Laying in bed and talking to my little brother until we fell asleep in our bunk beds. "Camping out" with my brothers in the attic on rainy nights so we could fall asleep to the sound of rain falling on the roof. Sled riding in my aunt and uncle's back yard. Riding bikes in the church parking lot. High school...
July 8, 201016 yr Drive-In Movies Riding Bikes Nectarine Ice Balls The Turkey Bowl Building Go-carts, and Forts Camping with my family The Cannon... Boom! Both my Mom and Dad, but especially my son who would have been 18 this week.
July 10, 201016 yr The smell of my grandparents musty basement The taste of my grandma's sugar popcorn Bike riding until dark and poping wheelies Playing ball in the back lot with all the neighborhood kids Bootsie, Wow, Champ, Corkie and Pugsy, all great dogs That feeling of my parents always having my back regardless what trouble I found myself in the days when time didn't seem so precious and just chilling didn't make me feel so guilty Mom and Dad.......
July 10, 201016 yr Sitting on the front porch with my grandfather at dusk and just listening to the crickets and tree frogs. Space Ghost (NOT Coast to Coast),The Herculoids and Bugs Bunny on Saturday morning. My Dad. The smell of my grandmother's fried chicken. Drinking beer and listening to music and the sound of my best friend's laugh at MSU years before he took his own life. MLB when it was still a game. The sound of the rain on my Grandparents' roof!
July 10, 201016 yr Rock and roll Collecting bottlecaps with sports figures pictured on the inside Mercury, Gemini and Apollo The British Invasion Atari Miniskirts I really had forgotten how important the space launches were to me . They truly did bond friends and family.
July 10, 201016 yr Someone said this earlier but listening to Cawood on the radio. Use to turn down the volume and listen to him instead. Same for Jack Buck for the Cardinal games. I miss kids going out and playing instead of playing video games or the computer.
July 10, 201016 yr Essentially, not worrying about the everyday trials of life. Just being a kid, knowing you'll be fed, generally happy, and you could play until it got dark outside. I miss playing ball until it felt like your fingers and toes would fall off because of cold. I miss thinking that pro athletes were the greatest people on the planet. I miss reading a book or watching a movie and thinking it was actually real.
July 10, 201016 yr Essentially, not worrying about the everyday trials of life. Just being a kid, knowing you'll be fed, generally happy, and you could play until it got dark outside. I miss playing ball until it felt like your fingers and toes would fall off because of cold. I miss thinking that pro athletes were the greatest people on the planet. I miss reading a book or watching a movie and thinking it was actually real. Nail on the head with this one. After your out of schooling and you gotta start being grown up, it sucks :lol:.
July 10, 201016 yr Some of the things I miss from the past... Sunday doubleheaders Tin dippers and cold well water Saturday morning cartoons (looking forward to them for a week) Home movies with projector and screen Popcorn made on top of the stove What about you? Especially the first bolded and the last bolded. The water and dipper was alway sitting on a table in the kitchen at my great granpa's in Wayne Co. Best water ever, and was always so cooool when it first came up out of the well. As for stove top popcorn, there is none better not even the best movie popcorn is better than home made stove top corn.
November 11, 201213 yr I guess some of the UK basketball games today are still on tape-delay, but when I was a little fella almost all of the weeknight games weren't shown live. My Dad used to talk my Mom into letting me go to sleep at around 7:00 pm or so & then he'd wake me up at around 10:30. Game would come on at 11:30 & we would watch together. Doesn't sound like much, but for an 8 or 9-year-old that was beyond cool. Also where my passion for UK basketball began. Good times.
November 11, 201213 yr To this day I have this spot in my heart that has never been fixed due to the death of my Father in 1964 my Freshmen year at CovCath. Events like Mr. Tieman Memorial Mass today bring back some strong feelings of my missing my Father so very very much and the joy that I wished I could have had in introducing my Dad to my Em his Granddaughter.
November 11, 201213 yr Chicken and dumplins. Popcorn on the stove. Basketball/baseball games from scratch. Bottle rocket wars with the sawed off wiffle ball bat. Home run derby. Ghost man on first. Pitcher's clutch. Many, many more!!!
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