I survived my Childhood

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 For today, just trying to not cry, complain and moan…

Some folks would wonder why I am still here. Some of the things I remember, I came from a good family. My sister Shirley and I were the late children. There were 4 boys and 3 girls; 3 boys and 2 girls lived to adulthood. 

I always loved the outdoors. I smoked rabbit tobacco at 4/5years old. I accidently set a huge straw field.  No fire department, the whole community of High Shoals showed up to fight the fire. I got a good 'whupping.'

My dad pastored a country church then. Shirley taught me to ride a bike, jump rope and play hop-scotch. Dad taught me to make a rabbit trap and I caught many for mom to cook, before we moved.

We moved to the City of Burlington, there I saw squirrels walking on power lines and it amazed me boys didn’t hunt them. LOL. I attended my first years of Public School. Back then (40/50s) the Bible was very prominent. Much of our required memory work was from the Bible, mostly memorizing  Psalms. There was always prayer and reciting the pledge to the Flag.

First grade and 4th grade

I do not fuss about prayer in school now, although I think allowing a silent moment for personal worship would be good. Probably 99%+ of students THEN were from Christian related families.

Then to Albemarle, where I met my first longtime friend, Vondale. Even in the 4^th grade he was a working guy, he had a paper route, I learned a lot from him and his family. Of course he did lead me astray. He taught me how to challenge other boys to BB wars with our BB rifles, and no one ever lost an eye thank the Lord.  Once out on his Uncle's farm we had the chance to run out about a quarter mile and let his cousin shoot at us with his 22 caliber hunting rifle, using short shells of course.  They were guaranteed to shoot a half mile.  They said it couldn’t hurt much and we figured we could see them coming. LOL Yes, that is true, we did not get hit. 

We scaled rock walls in a quarry, cooked eggs on flat rocks, swimmed and drank from rivers and creeks.

I also saw my first TV and got my own dog. Before we moved to Valdese.

I did a few more crazy things; much of which is the reason why I say it is a wonder I’ve lived about 86 years. ;-).

 

Nite Shipslog

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Now don’t even try to tell me you didn’t do crazy stuff as a youngster……

Thank you for being here…  Life is supposed to be better for me (on the road) even with a few pains…. LOL  Thanks for all the comments, love you guys.