Eating cold watermelon with friends and seeing who could spit the seeds farther. Planting the seeds and watching for a melon to grow. Lining base ball cards on the building and frisbying a card to knock one down. Playing marbles on the dirt and collecting them. Later finding one in the dirt was cool! Berry picking.digging up potatoes after we had cut up pieces with eyes and planted them. Watching new born kittens crawling in a box over our old t shirts. Putting my feet on the coal stove after sledding down a hill in the road near our house. Moms stood watch for traffic. Running through the water when they opened the fire plug for us. Finding a stray dog and getting to keep him. Shiny prayer book and a small silver box with a hinge holding pretty rosary beads. Getting a ceder jewelry box at graduation from the local furniture store. Five and dime stores especially the pizza/ice cream soda fountain at the counter. Waiting for the Easter bunny, Santa and leprechauns. Knee socks and skinny legs I no longer have. Crenolin slips and full skirts. Learning to sew on my mom's treadle machine. Our neighbor's player piano. My Dad's model t ford. The boy next door who combed his hair like James dean. Going down sliding boards that were too hot and having someone push you high on a metal swing. Real christmas trees and scents not from a spray can. Movies without advertisements and people doing the stunts not computer generated stunts. Black composition books. Slang books..my aunt wrote"when you get married and you have twins don't come to me for safety pins." raffle blocks where you pushed the paper out of a hole you poked and it said how much your chance cost. Nice neighbors took chances and I got a radio that had a wire antena you touched to metal to make it play. Passing to the next grade with a high average because I knew the work not because I had grown a year older. You felt special. Nylons that held up with a wire over a button. Rings in plastic bubbles that came out of vending machines. Dagwood sandwiches.