Hide and Seek; Playhouse in the woods; baseball played with a rubber ball and stick; Ante Over; Dolls, dishes & dollhouse; Old Maid; Monopoly; Checkers; and a lot of pretend, imaginative games we made up.
Bear around the corner, dare base, Kittie in the corner,pitch with daddy, marbles,mumbly peg. Naomi remember the log cabin we built with daddy’s old fence rails? It was out by our Lark Park. We built it up to about 50 or 6o inches high, then we couldn’t get into it! What a dissapointment that was. We didn’t know how to cut a door into it. Another one of our great ideas gone to pot. In the summer when the plums started to get ripe out in Lark Park,( a grove of plum trees down a little from the garden fence, and between the out house and little chicken house) We were so anxious to eat the plums, We would gather up all the nice undamaged ones that fell to the ground, put them in a glass jar, dig a hole, bury the jar, and wait for a couple of days, dig up the jar, test the plums to see if they were ripe, if they were we ate them, if not we reburied them. and checked again in a few days, Our Lark Park was where we conducted all our make believe county fairs, and we would pretend to show our 4-h stuff there. I think we even had a lemonade stand there and mom had to come out to our fair and buy stuff. Poor Mom.
I am so thankful that you remember all that stuff, Lolly. I remember we had Lark Park and I remember burying the plums…but I don’t remember the other things. There is so much I don’t remember and wish I could.
It might be possiable that it was Lloyd and I who built the log house, if you don’t remember Naomi. I wonder what Daddy thought of the mess we made of his old fence rails, He didn’t say anything to us!
Is Ante Over the one we played by throwing the ball over grandmas’s house then running around it and getting tagged? What were the rules of that? Or were there any? It was a great excuse to run around in the rain with cousins. Somebody explain that game to me.
Naomi Vetter says
Hide and Seek; Playhouse in the woods; baseball played with a rubber ball and stick; Ante Over; Dolls, dishes & dollhouse; Old Maid; Monopoly; Checkers; and a lot of pretend, imaginative games we made up.
Aunt Lolly says
Bear around the corner, dare base, Kittie in the corner,pitch with daddy, marbles,mumbly peg. Naomi remember the log cabin we built with daddy’s old fence rails? It was out by our Lark Park. We built it up to about 50 or 6o inches high, then we couldn’t get into it! What a dissapointment that was. We didn’t know how to cut a door into it. Another one of our great ideas gone to pot. In the summer when the plums started to get ripe out in Lark Park,( a grove of plum trees down a little from the garden fence, and between the out house and little chicken house) We were so anxious to eat the plums, We would gather up all the nice undamaged ones that fell to the ground, put them in a glass jar, dig a hole, bury the jar, and wait for a couple of days, dig up the jar, test the plums to see if they were ripe, if they were we ate them, if not we reburied them. and checked again in a few days, Our Lark Park was where we conducted all our make believe county fairs, and we would pretend to show our 4-h stuff there. I think we even had a lemonade stand there and mom had to come out to our fair and buy stuff. Poor Mom.
Naomi Vetter says
I am so thankful that you remember all that stuff, Lolly. I remember we had Lark Park and I remember burying the plums…but I don’t remember the other things. There is so much I don’t remember and wish I could.
Aunt Lolly says
It might be possiable that it was Lloyd and I who built the log house, if you don’t remember Naomi. I wonder what Daddy thought of the mess we made of his old fence rails, He didn’t say anything to us!
greer says
I was just curious so I looked up some of the games you mentioned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumblety-peg
http://improvencyclopedia.org/games/Kitty_in_the_Corner.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darebase
I remember grandma playing this game with us sometimes:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button,_Who's_Got_the_Button%3F
greer says
dad gumit… Greer didnt say that I did! Julie ( I guess he’s been using my computer again!)
Mary Jane Piazza says
Is Ante Over the one we played by throwing the ball over grandmas’s house then running around it and getting tagged? What were the rules of that? Or were there any? It was a great excuse to run around in the rain with cousins. Somebody explain that game to me.