Simple pleasures as a young child?

[Rivers End]

What were some of those simple pleasures as child.  Let's see. . A pin wheel spinning in the wind. . Blowing noises through a blade of green grass? Catching lightning bugs in a jar. . Flying a balsa wood airplane bought at the local dime store. . Returning pop bottles at the local ma and pa grocer to get a few cents of change to buy baseball cards, wax lips, candy cigerettes, wax soda bottles with juice, a chunk bar, etc etc.  Running after the good humor man in his little white truck with a quarter in your hand to buy a popcicle. . Climbing a tree. . Building a tree fort. . tumbling down a hill. . sleding down that hill. . Fizzies in your cup of water. . Peanut Butter and Jammy sanwiches with a glass of Koolade!

[Rivers End]

Hey Ron, If you can, move this item to another area, I messed up..this is under TV shows and needs to be moved??? Thank you sir!

[baldguy]

I used to (and occasionally still do) enjoy just lying in the grass, parting it until I see dirt, and watching the busy world beneath. Ants, spiders, and other tiny life busy living.

[Ronald]

We had a huge tree in the back of the garden where I had a big tree-house. I spent a lot of time there. Another of the tree was my imaginary cockpit of a Lockheed Neptune (my favorite plane). I flew there numbers of hours wearing my life vest from an old cessna which I found between some garbage. And I liked walking in the house with a mirror. Holding it horizentally at my hip. If you look in the mirror while you walking you'll get a funny experience.

[Rivers End]

Speaking of cockpits,  remember as a child this park had an actual F1- jet there for kids to play on. All the insides were taken out and you could crawl through the whole fusualage. That was a pretty neat toy!

[baldguy]

The Gravette, Arkansas city park has a P-80 Shooting Star! I've got a new digital camera on the way from Tiger Direct, I'll shoot and upload a pic soon.

[ziggy2k8]

Running through a sprinkler on a hot summer day.

[wooden slingshot]

What were some of those simple pleasures as child.   Let's see.  .  A pin wheel spinning in the wind.  .  Blowing noises through a blade of green grass? Catching lightning bugs in a jar.  .  Flying a balsa wood airplane bought at the local dime store.  .  Returning pop bottles at the local ma and pa grocer to get a few cents of change to buy baseball cards, wax lips, candy cigerettes, wax soda bottles with juice, a chunk bar, etc etc.   Running after the good humor man in his little white truck with a quarter in your hand to buy a popcicle.  .  Climbing a tree.  .  Building a tree fort.  .  tumbling down a hill.  .  sleding down that hill.  .  Fizzies in your cup of water.  .  Peanut Butter and Jammy sanwiches with a glass of Koolade!

Great topic.  It seems that a lot of what I remember was physical.  Riding bikes.  Snowball fights.  Whiffle ball.  Sprinking salt on watermelon (ah, those pre-hypertension days!).  Peanuts in Coke.  Plinking at cans.  Picking away at the cork on the inside of a bottle cap to reveal a message.  The summer carnival.  That feeling of anticipation and heightened sensory awareness that came with the last couple of days of school. 

[Ronald]

Sprinking salt on watermelon? Never heard of that. Is is nice or does it give some kind of effect?

[Rivers End]

Oh yeah! Salt on watermellon! I remember that. It just gives a salt/sweet combination of taste. Try it Ronald!