Daily Musings - page 16

Street hockey, but baseball.

I remember using old hubcaps for first base. And then there was that great piece of cardboard that kept sliding out from under our feet.

It's amazing we didn't break any bones, but we sure all ad our share of road-rash!! Boys and girls alike. We were all equal at the band-aid lineup before dinner.

Ah! Those were the days!

Where did you play Candyce? Did you grow up in a big city? We spray-paint the bases.

Victor.....I believe they call that "Graffitti" now a days.

Andy, I'm glad. I think I read somewhere that peroxide can be used for skunk spray.

Victorgardener, It would be fun to watch the oldsters go aginst the youngsters :)) I don't miss hangovers tho.

Graffiti, giggle, good one!

It's staying partly cloudy and cool. I think our humidity is building up for a chance to rain tomorrow.

I've been posting this picture here and there and only a few people who overlap some of my forums and will know what it is. Of course Magpye got it right off :))

I call it Charlie's World.

Billy, is that the reflection off the top of a "Gazing Ball"?

No hangover for me today. Only had a few beers.

Hey, amethistsm, the year I was 36 I was President of the Student Society. What a laugh! All these old geezer administrators used to intimidating 19 year old kids - and suddenly they had to deal with a woman who was not above ratting to their wives if they didn't play fair with the students.

It was GREAT fun. Got invited to every important dinner (gotta have a student representative!). Stole deserts from Deans (like what are they going to do???) hehehehe.

I definitely recommend going back to school as a non-trad. Also, older students seems to scoop up the majority of scholarships - at least where I was.

And ratting to their wifes if they PLAYED with the students!

Yep Andy!

I actually grew up in the country. There were all kinds of fields and woods around home, but playing in the street was more fun. Besides, there wasn't much traffic. The fields and woods we reserved for 'kick-the-can'. Anyone remember that?

No kick the can here. We played pop-up in the neighbors yard and knew a lot of games. Each had to start out with the rhymes to find out who was ''it.''

I wrote down a lot of them years ago, before I forgot all of them.

I remember kick the can, along with dodge-ball. Has anyone ever played "Golf Frisbee"? Don't laugh to hard but we play it on the lake while ice fishing.

Brrrrrr .....
nope - never heard of golf frisbee

We played dodge ball and dodge frisbee! Also, frisbee football. Not golf frisbee though - how does it fit in that little hole??

Alas . . . I read books . . . I was the most gangly, unathletic, no eye-hand co-ordination, etc. kid you ever met.

Everyone thought I should play basketball, 'cause I was so tall . . . that probably would have been hazardous to the health of the other players.

I'm the only person I know who cannot catch, hit, throw, or run and can't get a handicapped parking spot.

consequence? Well, I hardly played with kids my own after age 9. spent 10-16 basically isolated. Left home at 16 and hung out with adults who would have been appalled to know how young I was . . . hehehe

My wife is in your athletic league, Michaela. And she has even less interest than ability!

wow - how did you two hook up? My DH is much more athletic than I am - a real wilderness, Grizzly Adams kind of guy (well maybe not that extreme, but he did spend almost a decade working in the wilderness of BC for the provincial parks branch - boy, can he tell you stories!)

We are together because he was the first male I ever met that willingly read something more complex than a hamburger menu or the swim suit edition of Sports Illustrated. He is a published poet, and even has his own small publishing company: Permission Press.

He is an artist/writer first, a wilderness guy next, and a car freak, and loves music. Doesn't do sports. Neither of us watch sports either - well until Canada plays Olympic hockey or a Canadian team makes it to the Stanley Cup finals.

Michaela, I agree that men are the less-evolved sex, but they couldn't have all been that bad! Was it a real cowboy mentality in the Northwest?

Victor, Isn't there a NY nickname for the rubber ball?

I liked watching NBA games when the guys wore short, shorts! Whose idea was it to put them in those baggy knee-longs anyway? And I would watch Mohummad Ali fight. The only boxing I ever cared for - he was an artist. Other than that - sports are not my thing.

Come on Dave - I can almost walk upright!

But you're in the Midwest. Does it look like the classic evolution sketch going from west to east?

All I can see is the ground.

Dave - yes - a 'Spaldeen', slang for Spalding. That was the pink ball we always played with that lasted forever. They brought it back a few years ago but they were nothing like the original - and $2 each!!

Cat - Ali was one of my sports idols growing up.

Dave and Al - GRUNT! Fire good.

That's it! A Spaldeen. I went out with someone from the Bronx. For a long time, I thought she didn't know how to pronounce Spalding.

That's the only thing they don't mispronounce in the Bronx.

I often refer to the town I grew up in (East Haven) as a little piece of the Bronx in CT. Lots of folkks adding the "s" on to "you" to make it plural. Tree is one more than 2. Yaknow what I'm sayin?

I spoke the Queens English, thank you.

I'm trying to picture a queen speaking....

Dave, I her ya.

Seandor, I loved to read. I wasn't competetive and didn't care for sports anyway. I had more fun damming up a crick or making tepees from horseweed stems and fresh cut grass from the ditches. I still do and I still can't throw :)) I'm impressed! You and DH are a good match. My DH isn't sporty either. No games on TV here. He likes car races and woodworking.

Fire good, ROTFL. It reminds me of Saturday Night Live when Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz and Kevin Nealan played Tarzen, Tonto and Frankenstein. He was also hilarious on Pee Wee Herman. I sure miss Phil Hartman. His wife did a very bad thing.

Vintage Wine Coneflower with Phlox.

Billy, thats a lovely photo! I loved to read, still do but liked some sports. I can throw a mean softball, broke the record in distance at my school but couldn't play on a team. I'm a lefty, totally....in short: you can not catch the ball with your left AND throw with your left. You loose precious seconds which can mean a base for the other team no matter how fast you are. I tried to learn to catch with my right, ended up with a black eye and almost broke my nose. Nope, baseball/softball was not my sport! Instead I ran track, loved it.... took home a few ribbons and tied a few records. I also ice skate, have since I was 3 yrs. old, I played hockey but it's a bit too rough for me now at my age!

This message was edited Jul 22, 2007 8:52 PM

Wow, you were good!! DD is a lefty, but can use her right for some things better. My brother's daughter is a lefty also. I could run when I was young, but never went out for anything in school. I was happy running at home. I was second fastest in my class.

I had 6 older brothers....I learned to run fast at a young age. LOL

Sunset the last 2 nights has been very peaceful and beautiful.

another..

one more.

That is so beautiful! I guess our skies are pretty clean after all the rain. Nothing fancy here.

Those are so beautiful!

Thanks Ladies....I thought the colors were very nice, soothing.

I love pink and blue skies best. Then the peaches and apricots.

I'm almost ready to put on pants. It's cooling off fast here.