What did you do in the summer when you were growing up?
- Changes in the wind said...
- I love to roller skate and no we had no rinks just a cement basketball court.
- Jan said...
- A lot of roller skating and a lot of reading
- Birdie said...
- My grandparents didn't believe in leaving money to their children
and grandchildren in a will so they gave money to everyone. One time
they gave $10,000 so my parents decided to put in a pool. And that is
where I spent my summers! It was awesome. My grandma died first and when
my grandpa died he didn't have more than a few hundred dollars to his
name.
- cube said...
- Because I grew up in NYC, I did lots of reading with weekend
trips to the park for running, and riding our bikes down a sinisterly
steep hill at Riverside Park and avoiding a concrete water faucet, etc..
Once I turned 11, we moved to Florida and got a pool. It was hard for
my mom to get us out of it even to eat. Often, we'd have sandwiches at
pool's edge for lunch and tempestual fits over not wanting to come in
for dinner.
Reading, running and swimming... that about covers it.
- Brig said...
- Water skied, camped, read a lot, sewed, swam in a neighbors pool,
spent time with my granny, and hoed weeds in bean fields for my dad, a
lot of bean fields, every summer.
- Lisa said...
- Mostly I played in the backyard with the neighborhood kids. There
was a gang of about 15 of us who were the same age. When we weren't
playing hide and seek or kick the can, we'd go to the rec center to swim
or play volleyball or kickball. Or we'd just ride our bikes or skate on
the sidewalks. Occasionally we'd be allowed to go to the skating rink
or to the bowling alley. Then on Friday nights somebodies mother would
load everyone up in her car and take us to the drive-in theater. If it
sounds like Leave-it-to-Beaver-land, it was. Too bad we didn't
appreciate it as such when we were young.
- Arkansas Patti said...
- I spent the summers in Ohio in a bathing suit and in Key West on pony back. Can't ever remember being bored.
- Elephant's Child said...
- Reading, swimming, cycling...
- Barb said...
- I daydreamed, read, rode bike, and went swimming in the public town pool. I was a latchkey kid.
- Tammie Lee said...
- often we would go to the beach for 5 days and stay in a cabana,
then home on Mon. and Tues. to wash clothes and get ready to do it
again. perhaps all that good fun is why I am always dealing with skin
cancer and pre-skin cancers...... What did you do?
I love to roller skate and no we had no rinks just a cement basketball court.
ReplyDeleteA lot of roller skating and a lot of reading
ReplyDeleteMy grandparents didn't believe in leaving money to their children and grandchildren in a will so they gave money to everyone. One time they gave $10,000 so my parents decided to put in a pool. And that is where I spent my summers! It was awesome. My grandma died first and when my grandpa died he didn't have more than a few hundred dollars to his name.
ReplyDeleteBecause I grew up in NYC, I did lots of reading with weekend trips to the park for running, and riding our bikes down a sinisterly steep hill at Riverside Park and avoiding a concrete water faucet, etc.. Once I turned 11, we moved to Florida and got a pool. It was hard for my mom to get us out of it even to eat. Often, we'd have sandwiches at pool's edge for lunch and tempestual fits over not wanting to come in for dinner.
ReplyDeleteReading, running and swimming... that about covers it.
Water skied, camped, read a lot, sewed, swam in a neighbors pool, spent time with my granny, and hoed weeds in bean fields for my dad, a lot of bean fields, every summer.
ReplyDeleteMostly I played in the backyard with the neighborhood kids. There was a gang of about 15 of us who were the same age. When we weren't playing hide and seek or kick the can, we'd go to the rec center to swim or play volleyball or kickball. Or we'd just ride our bikes or skate on the sidewalks. Occasionally we'd be allowed to go to the skating rink or to the bowling alley. Then on Friday nights somebodies mother would load everyone up in her car and take us to the drive-in theater. If it sounds like Leave-it-to-Beaver-land, it was. Too bad we didn't appreciate it as such when we were young.
ReplyDeleteI spent the summers in Ohio in a bathing suit and in Key West on pony back. Can't ever remember being bored.
ReplyDeleteReading, swimming, cycling...
ReplyDeleteI daydreamed, read, rode bike, and went swimming in the public town pool. I was a latchkey kid.
ReplyDeleteoften we would go to the beach for 5 days and stay in a cabana, then home on Mon. and Tues. to wash clothes and get ready to do it again. perhaps all that good fun is why I am always dealing with skin cancer and pre-skin cancers...... What did you do?
ReplyDeleteLots of reading. Going to Lake Sinclair with the fam.
ReplyDeleteSwim.
ReplyDeleteTried to avoid being hit or screamed at.
ReplyDeleteOh, boy! I did so many things...this would turn into a "Gone with the Wind" if I listed them all! :)
ReplyDeletePlayed tennis - badly - and enjoyed camping, climbing and boating.
ReplyDeleteUp at dawn, walk down to the beach, stay all day and come home as the sun was going down. From about age eight. It was a small town where everyone knew everyone else just about, so I was safe and home was five minutes walk away. When I wasn't at the beach I was reading, sometimes up in a tree reading.
ReplyDeleteLove this idea. You got some cool comments. I read, rode my bike, played with my friends, played Gin rummy, went to the lake to go swimming and sometimes even went to my aunts camp in Maine where we could walk on the rocks and look for sea creatures at low tide.
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