What was your favorite childhood activity or activities in the Spring?. Mine were flying kites and riding my bike,

[debm55]

And you?

[Lochloosa]

1. Shooting my brothers with BBguns

Throwing Lawn Darts at them. The real ones. Etc.

[debm55]

6. Oh you , They could have been hurt.

[Lochloosa]

17. Who said they weren't?

[TommieMommy]

2. Riding my bike or climbing trees

[debm55]

7. Thank you very much, TommieMommy. It's been a long time since I climbed a tree.

[MiHale]

3. Playing tennis, baseball, bike riding...

setting small fires, working in the garden, helping my grandma make noodles.

[debm55]

8. Great activities, Thank you MiHale for sharing with us.

[applegrove]

4. Soccer in the back yard. I was a goalie and loved it.

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And then there was to cottage.

[debm55]

12. Thank you very much for sharing with us, applegrove.

[displacedvermoter]

5. Baseball

[debm55]

13. Thank you very much, displacedvermoter. The girls would set up our own "league" with the plastic balls and bats.

[displacedvermoter]

21. Wiffle ball was always a lot of fun!

[debm55]

23. Yes, I liked playing wiffle ball with my briends.Thank you displacedvermoter.

[LisaM]

9. Riding my bike and playing in what we called "the field".

There was a huge field behind our house (now all developed) that ran up to a woods. It had a stone bed (where we would occasionally find fossils), a little hill that ran down to twin ponds that sometimes connected after it rained and where we would build rafts, and the shell of an old barn where we could make forts. We also played Lost in Space in the barn, though that was mostly because we had friends who liked the show, and sometimes we played what we called "olden days". There were four sets of sisters all the same ages - so me and my three friend and our four sisters, all two years younger.

Some combination of us was out in that field almost all day every day.

[debm55]

14. Great post. LisaM. Thank you very much for sharing with us.

[Endlessmike56]

10. Fishing

[debm55]

16. Thank you very much, Endlessmike56 for sharing with us. I remember trout season began on April 15. What did you fish for

[Wicked Blue]

11. Hopscotch

and looking for spring wildflowers in the nearby woods

[debm55]

15. Thank you very much, Wicked Blue for sharing with us. As a child, I loved playing Hopscotch.

[Harker]

18. Flying kites and jumping in lakes...

were what I was told to do, but I was more interested in hiking and playing baseball .

[debm55]

24. Thank you very much for sharing with us, Harker.

[Mad_Dem_X]

19. Riding my bike around the neighborhood

with my friends.

[debm55]

25. Yes, in the spring and summer it was riding my bike almost every day. Thank you Mad_Dem_X

[Prairie_Seagull]

20. Swimming in faster running waterways.

Yep water baby for my life.

[debm55]

27. My son started swimming at 6 months in 8 feet of water. He stopped swimming at about 17 years. This was an indoor pool

Loved watching him as a 2 year old diving off of the diving board. TY Prairie Seagull for bringing back those memories.

[surrealAmerican]

22. climbing trees, riding bikes ...

... and planting a garden. I didn't much like the weeding and later garden activities, but planting was fun.

[debm55]

28. Thank you very much for sharing with us, surrealAmerican. Your Spring activities sound very much like mine. I started my

seedlings in the seed planters in the garage. Still a little too cold to plant outside.

[rsdsharp]

26. Baseball.

Of course, there was that time Lance Christiansen hit me in the head with a bat, but every hobby has it’s down sides.

[debm55]

29. Did you have to go to the hospital???? Thank you very much rsdsharp for sharing with us.

[rsdsharp]

30. No hospital. The guys picked me up and took me into the grade school building.

Mrs. Sogard (the fourth grade teacher who had also taught my older brother and sister) called my mother. It went like this:

Mrs. Sogard: Mrs. Sharp? This is Genevieve B. Sogard. Bobby’s been hit in the head with a bat.

Mom (sounding like Schwartz’s mother regarding the f word): WHAT?WHAT? ^%#~*+%#}]|>€!!!

Mrs.,Sogard: Would you like me to drive him home?

Mom(somewhat calmer): Yes, please ( or words to that effect).


So GBS loaded me into her Caddy, and drove me home. Mom put me in bed and called the doctor, who came by-and-by, and pronounced that I had a fractured skull, and to keep me quiet in a dark room.

I guess it worked. That was 61 years ago, and I’m still here.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

31. I had three

Hopscotch, playing 7UP against the rear wall of my house and riding my bike down back alleys and through the cemetery/ GOOD TIMES!