Originally Posted by mim
I was also brought up in the country and small village -- we played something called mumbely peg and "war" -- a circle in the dirt and using a jackknife cut the circle into smaller and smaaller pieces -- the last one left was the winner. There were still lightening bugs when my boys were young to catch and try to read under the covers.
I think that with no long field grass left, they aren't surviving. sad !!!
I agree about the lightning bugs. It's all the development taking over the fields. They have no where to breed anymore. We played freeze tag, Mother May I?, Simon Says, hopscotch, Jacks, climbed trees, and caught tadpoles at "The Big Ditch" which was really a stream until they paved the thing. Then, no more tadpoles or fish or turtles to catch.