Children. The little people that drive big people crazy. They yell and scream for no reason. They can find fun playing with the most inappropriate and useless items. If you hide it, they will find it. If told not to, they will do it. If unavailable they will produce it. These little people can make and find fun where others see nothing. Oh to be that age again. Carefree and unencumbered by life's trials and tribulations.
I remember a house that we lived in at 4 mile. It was wonderful. We had a huge tree for climbing, and swinging on. There was a big field out back, that was great for sledding in the winter, and for hiding in the summer. No one locked their doors. You were welcome at any ones house anytime. Everyone knew everyone and we all rode the bus together during the school year. It was like a small community all in itself.
There was wildlife everywhere. Bambi and friends walked through the yard all throughout the year. Dad really hated them in the summer when the garden was in. No matter what we put up to curb the deer, they just kept coming and eating all the good veggies, and trampling everything else. He actually shot a deer one year, and Char told me this morning, that the one thing she remembered about it, was it hanging in the shed with blood in its nose. Not sure if we realized it was about to be dinner for the next few months. It fed us well that winter.
We used to have a big bear trap in our yard at least once a year. The Fish and Wildlife people came and set the trap by the garden and would come a week later and check it, or come and remove the trap when they caught the bear. I remember the night we heard the horrible clang from out back of the house. We all ran to the window, which was open due to the warm weather. There it was. A bear. To us, being young and still fairly innocent and small, it was HUGE. This big bear groaning and swaying inside what looked like a big culvert with gates on each end. WE HAD CAUGHT US A BEAR.
We were not allowed to go see it. Mom and Dad were afraid that it might get loose and then we would be 2 instead of 3 little girls. Not sure which one of us it would have gone for. It was really cool when the parks people showed up to take the trap away, we got to look at the bear up close and personal. They are really scary up close. They look like big furry teddy bears till you get near. None of the ones they took away, were huge, but they sure look that way when your 10. They took them up into the mountains far away from where they were caught and released. Off to run with Bambi and Thumper in the forest.
Those days living in that house seem so many years ago. It was a simple time. We did not have tons of money, but always had good food, clothes and a home that was full of love. We fought like cats and dogs, but then what family doesn't. Our fun was being together and doing things that made us laugh. Singing in the car, sledding down the hill in the winter, climbing the tree for apples that were as big as a cantalope, and just loving life. Oh to be part of that again. Then we moved. Life began again in another house. It was all different then. Then "HE" came along. The fourth child. The "BROTHER".
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