Oh God,flashbacks......
*Walking across the train tracks to the local Cafe' with a written note from mom to buy her a pack of "Blackcat" smokes for 58 cents.
* Sitting in front of the black and white TV watching the news of JFK's assassination.
*Taking my BB gun and heading over to the 7 grain elevators to hunt sparrows and pigeons (and the odd wild cat).
*Our first color TV and watching the new car ads featuring the 70's Duster 340 and the Hemi Cuda.
*Moving to a small farm. Catching the school bus on the dirty dusty roads in the summer and getting to take the (Ski-Doo)Silver Bullet 340 to school in the winter.
* Learning how to trap rats and weasels on my first (so called) trap line.
*The country party phone line, one long two short rings. Talking to friends on a land line with all the neighbors listening.
*Having the Steven 58 12ga shotgun and cooey 22 in the front closet to take care of the magpies and coyotes that came into the yard.
Oh life was so much easier and real then.
Excellent thread. Thanks for the memories.
