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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/28/2008 5:18:39 PM | Way to go cuddly! That's the spirit!
I don't know about you, but when I play like a kid it relieves so much stress. Reminds me to not take life so seriously and live for simpler times.
Okay, nuf adult stuff!!
Who wants to wants to play Fox and Geese????
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/28/2008 6:29:12 PM | Geez you guys, I grew up like that. I'm a farm kid. Inside of three miles there were a dozen of us within three or four years of each other. Yep, there were chores, we often did them together too. We used a couple of International Scouts, instead of a HD.
I've got climbing gear (for the tree), 3/8" cable, cable clamps, and a 18" pipe. And I know where there's a swimming hole with an oak stretching partially over it. All just waiting to make a trapeze swing. Should be able to get 20 feet off the water with a little run. When are you all arriving? :-)
I learned, from a grandfather, to build my own toys. :-) Lately that's been playing with water rockets. The biggest so far was a five gallon water bottle. Went about 50 feet in the air, and started arcing over. Straight toward the nearest road. Luckily no one was driving on that road at the time, it hit right in the middle.
Did you all know that you can launch a water rocket under water. Makes a really nice surprise for folks on the surface as it breaks through the water and flies through the air. Not as high as it would have if launched above the water, but still nice.
It's really a surprise for boaters to have a soda bottle come tumbling out of the sky into their boat too. Watch out for too much pressure though, things can explode. Strapping or duct tape might help that a bit...
Play safely, well at least sorta safely
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/28/2008 6:37:27 PM | Hey dofiagle, the mention of a swing...even over the water, lol...got my attention. I'm heading over now. Water rockets?! Now that's something I have never done. Maybe you'd be willing to teach me.
There sure are a lot of uses for duct tape. Did you ever see the Red Green show? Every episode had him doing something with duct tape. Could involve toilet paper, a toilet, a boat, a car...pretty well anything you could imagine. It was good for a laugh every week.   | |
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/28/2008 9:37:20 PM | I love to swing on the swings at the park, only you can't find many of them anymore. I love roller coasters (including ones that go upside down) and water slides.
I have a 5 year old grandson and he called me a couple days ago and asked if I wanted to come over and play with his play food (plastic food). And of course I went over and sat on the floor and tasted all his plastic concoctions he and his little brother prepared for me. We've also had nerf gun fights around the corners in his house. | |
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/29/2008 8:17:09 AM | The easiest way for me to tell you how to build water rockets is google them. That's where I got the idea for the five gallon one. The guy I got the idea from had a similar problem with a road. I wrote him and we had a great laugh about it.
While you're at it look up match rockets too.
That trapeze swing is what we used to build out over the Sacramento River, here in Northern California. The hard part was getting out on the limb with cable, cable clamps and a crescent wrench. Once you were in position you had it made, it was easy to wrap the cable and clamp it. Tie everything to you. Use strings as long as you need. Ya'll do know how to climb trees, don't ya? | |
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/29/2008 8:58:34 AM | Remember the water rockets and the match rockets. Those were a blast. The ones we made were paper match heads only stuffed into the bottom half of a ball point pen. Set it down, light it and away it went. You could hurt someone with those if you weren't careful. Those were only about a step or so away from making a zip gun from a car antenna and a 12" ruler. Course I never made any of those things when I was a kid. I was an  | |
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/29/2008 11:46:59 AM | HD ???
Zip gun???? Hmmmm - what else DIDN'T YOU do HD? LOL!!
By the way, where'd y'all take lizzielou when you took off on your lowrider the other day? She's only been seen once since then....*eyes narrowing, looking at HD* | |
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/29/2008 3:34:10 PM | HD
LOL I wasn't going to go to zip guns. LOL Or shoulder mounted (stock), air tank on back powered, breach loading potato guns. Lean into it. (No guts, no glory :-) There were the water balloon slingshots that used surgical tubing looped around your feet too. Your legs became the slingshot fork.
That itchy vine, I grew up in it. We thought it was just another bush to play in. Never have got more than a quarter sized itchy patch on my wrist. Lasts about 5 minutes. I've sawed oak in the middle of that so I know I've thrown some of it's oil around.
Sycamores are wonderful for swings. They're nice and springy. Adds to the great feeling of flying through the air with the greatest of ease. | |
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/29/2008 3:38:49 PM | Hey, this is the Labor day weekend. Is everyone going to be staid and sober?
I live in a town that has been a mining town and a lumber town. It's in the Sierra Nevada foothills. there's deep (800 feet) narrow canyons almost inside city limits. I'm going hiking. There's a couple of old mines down those canyons, and some fascinating gear laying around. | |
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/29/2008 3:47:22 PM | Hey dof, I actually have this long weekend off...a rarity for this gal! I have a first date tonight with a POFer I met at a coffee night, then am going to a bbq tomorrow. Should be fun...tee hee!!
I love to hike, but prefer the Bruce Trail to canyons. A little less height, and just as much fun.
Hope you all have a fun, and safe, long weekend.
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/29/2008 3:53:46 PM | Oh, oh! Dof I wanna go hikin!! That sounds fantastic! Cuddly you wanna come? You won't have to swim - well, uhm, you won't if we dun't run into any underwater rivers...
Ah, drat! Darn it ! I gotta stay here and build a deck, SIGH....
Holler at me next time Dof, okay? I'll go wif ya!
The area of southeastern Ohio I live in is on the western edge of the foothills of the Appalachian range which was unglaciated. It has strong river valleys, thick woods, huge forested areas, deep mines, dog leg mines and strip mines. So there are lots of old areas that were mined before the REC laws that still have high walls, deep quarry ponds, and shaft openings left to explore.
When we were young (I don't know how we survived the years of our youth to get to the age we are now) we used to ride our horses straight down over the spoil banks to the ponds like the scene from "Man From Snowy River".
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/29/2008 4:02:26 PM | Hey Niki....Wasn't me!! I didn't kidnap Lizzie! I plead the 5th! Wait...or is that drink the 5th??? I'm so confused.
What else "Didn't I Do"?? Well...A lot of stuff. All I can say is I grew up in Jersey and spent a year living with my grandmother and going to school in N. Philly. It's amazing what a 6 or 7 year old could learn on the streets of Philly in the late 50's. | |
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/29/2008 4:09:25 PM | | Hey Dof....If you weren't going to go into zip guns then I guess frag grenades made from the nice round cast iron chain link fence post caps are definitely out of the question? Dang those were fun times! Potato guns and water balloon slingshots were kids stuff. Wait....I was a kid when I learned to make those other things. | |
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/29/2008 4:22:07 PM | *peers intently at HD* uh huh, so where is she, HUH? she hasn't been back to the swimmin' hole for days now...
Did you leave her at the DQ in the crawl tubes???? | |
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/29/2008 4:23:47 PM | FRAG grenades???? *slides slowly around the big sycamore and slides down the otter slide to the swimmin' hole*
uhm, (calling from the beaver lodge in the middle of the swimmin' hole) i'll see if lizzie's hiding out here! | |
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/29/2008 4:43:07 PM | We had over 20 kids on our street when I was growing up. We didn't do the violent things that HD suggests, but were big into yard games: kick the can, freeze tag, run fish run, and of course baseball, football, basketball, and soccer.
We had a woods behind the house and played out there building forts and hiding from each other. We held neighborhood carnivals, and art shows. There were a few older girls and they must have thought we needed culture! We did what this newest generation doesn't do...we played! We were kids. Sure we watched TV, the three channels we got. But there were no computers, no cell phones for texting, no Xbox, etc. We played outside rain, sleet, and snow. And now, I'm *coughing* 50 and I still like to play!!
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/29/2008 6:37:23 PM | Here's some text I got from an old certificate. Shouldn't be hard to put it on a good background and print it
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THE SOCIETY OF CHILDLIKE GROWNUPS
By this certificate, know ye that
THE BEARER OF THIS CERTIFICATE IS A LIFETIME MEMBER IN GOOD STANDING
IN THE SOCIETY OF CHILDLIKE GROWNUPS
AND IS HEREBY ENTITLED TO:
Walk in the rain, JUMP in mud puddles, collect pretty stones, smell flowers, blow bubbles, ooOoOoO; stop along the way, build sandcastles, watch the moon and stars come out, say HELLO to everyone, go barefoot, go on adventures, sing and dance anywhere, anytime, read children's books, act silly, take bubble baths, get new sneakers, hold hands & hug & kiss, fly kites, laugh and cry out loud, wander around, wonder (???) about stuff, Feel SCARED & sad ;-( & mad & Happy, say yes and no and the magic words, ask lots of questions, ride bicycles, draw and paint and color, fall down and get up again, talk with animals, look at the sky, trust the universe, STAY UP LATE, Climb trees, take naps, do nothing, daydream, buy fast food with toys in it (happy meals!!) play under the covers, have pillow fights, learn new stuff, get excited about EVERYTHING, be a clown, listen to music, find out how things work, make up new rules, tell stories, save the world, make friends
FURTHERMORE, the above named member is officially authorized to frequent amusement parks, beaches, meadows, mountaintops, sand boxes, swimming pools, forests, playgrounds, picnic areas, summer camps, birthday parties, happy meal vendors (great toys!!), circuses, bakeries, ice cream parlors, theaters, aquariums, zoos, museums, planetariums, big piles of rocks, and especially toy stores.
Remember our Society of Childlike Grownups Motto:
IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO HAVE A HAPPY CHILDHOOD! | |
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/29/2008 6:59:18 PM | I've got some interesting rules for jacks and marbles around here somewhere. I'll post them when I find them. The jacks rules are with and without a ball.
HD I've got powder burn scars from blasting powder. Didn't stop me just became a little more respectful. My step dad had a metal lathe and a really nice scrap iron pile. 1 1/2" tractor axle makes wonderful canon barrels. There were lots of 3/4' bearings around.
There was once a crossbow made from a railroad tie and a leaf spring. 3/8" continuous strand cable for the string. It was mounted on the three point hitch on the back of a tractor. A fence stretcher and a 50 ton hydraulic jack****d it, and it'd throw a 3/4" dia by 8 in rod about 250 yards and once, into walnut tree....oops. Those were our cash crop. It disappeared after that. :-) | |
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| Who Still Likes to Play Like a Kid?
Posted: 8/29/2008 9:47:50 PM | got into a sandbox on a spiritual retreat with a 6'3" terror. he drew a line in the sand and tried to take over the whole box. retaliation was clearly in order, so we sprayed him with hose water until he was soaking wet! then i gave dance lessons to all in attendance and we got those paddles with the strings and balls and walked around playing with those for awhile, followed by hoola hoops!!!
a bystander told me we looked like "mental patients" (cough, spit) and then signed himself up for the next retreat! it was a blast. we regrouped the following weekend at my house and blew bubbles in our milk, ate twinkies and giggled. we ranged in age from 25-55 at that time. i think i will have another one of those parties soon.
the fun thing with adopting my teens at age 50, was i got to teach them all these neat tricks. when my eldest came back from sex ed in high school with a box of condoms, somewhat bewildered, i taught her to make water balloons. we had a blast. her tension was relieved and later we talked about the more serious issues. | |
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