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This came to mind, this trip down Memory Lane (not in any order):

Here are some kid games we played back with Heck was a pup.

“Here I come down to Sugar Loaf Town. What’s your trade? Lemonade! Bet to work and work all day!” The person that is “it” mimes the work they do, and the others must guess what they are doing.

Shinny. It’s a boys’ game, akin to the game of hockey. Choose up sides. Each player has a tobacco stick. The puck is a tin can. Before it is over everyone has sore shins!

Spin the bottle. It’s a boy and girls’ game-usually played at a girl’s house. (I liked this one.) Everyone sits in a circle. If it’s the boys turn, he spins the bottle. If it stops, pointing at a girl, he gets to kiss the girl then give her the bottle. (All the girls got kissed-pretty and not so pretty.) She spins, and If it stops on a boy, she gets to kiss the boy…smack dab on the lips! Wow! At a girl’s house there were usually more girls present. That was good.

And now, just the things and stuff from here on in:

My old friend down at the Rochester Bait shop, Possum, would probably know this: A lesser-known cowboy movie actor by the name of Wayne Morris was a Marine fighter pilot in World War II. He flew Grumman Wildcats.

There were mill stones, before Christ, in Asia Minor, for grinding grain into flour. Some weighed up to 25 tons. They were made from quartz.

Do you remember Double Cola? It was only made and bottled in Greensburg, Kentucky.

The skateboard came about in California in 1940 when surfers could find no big waves.

If a southern boy liked a girl, he would say I’m “struck” on you. A northern boy would say I’m “stuck” on you.

It is interesting how tv influences our thinking. I never knew the actor Bruce Dern, but I disliked him after he killed John Wayne in a movie. However, when I saw him later, as a kind judge in a movie, I liked him. One of my very favorite actors was Robert Mitchum. He was a man’s-man and ruggedly handsome-also a superb actor. However, I heard a woman say she couldn’t stand him after she saw him play a young man’s part in a movie when he was old.

I’ll stop. Remember, if you’ve got a foot hung in the stirrup and the gate at the same time, it’ll make you holler “woe” …a lot.

Kindest regards and God be with you.