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Life is good
Pappy:
You know I think we all worry about our kids to much now days,we use to do that same kind of thing when I was 8/9 much less 15/16.I just don't know why that is.I use to go hunting
with a 22 or shot gun when I was 11 or 12 by myself and mom never seemed to think much about
it.It was just what we did. ???
Pappy
GregB:
Yeah Pappy, I was hunting squirrels by myself also when I was 11-12 years old. Seems like a lot of things have changed since then. I used to roam for miles not even thinking about what farmers property I might be crossing over. Now most of those fields and woods are filled with subdivisions. Farmers are more sensitive about who is crossing their property and with good reason.
We grew up in a time without home computers, without satelite tv, and all the games kids play today. We had to search for something interesting to do and that usually led outside. Kids of today are entertained more indoors...with my two boys as guilty of that as most others I guess. My oldest son's friend left the lights on his car at my house yesterday and ran the battery down. He didn't know how to get his hood up, and neither of them had ever been involved in using jumper cables.
Yes, "Life is Good"...but much too easy. Of course, my dad plowed with mules and walked five miles one way to school! :)
DBernier:
Hey Greg, I'll bet your Dad was like mine, 5 miles, both ways up hill. ::) Ahhhhh the good old days.
Dick
mullet:
Yea Pappy,I used to deliver my newspapers on a bike,weekdays in the afternoon and weekends in the morning.Always had my 22 or my bow and went hunting afterwards.nobody thought anything about seeing me with a gun.The old man that ran the store would let us cash in coke bottles for shotgun shells .He knew we couldn't afford a whole box.
Now days if you saw a kid riding the same streets I did with a gun ,somebody would be calling the SWAT team.
GregB:
Dick, I don't remember him telling it was uphill both ways, but I think he had to cross a creek using a rope tied between two trees! ;D
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