Friday Fun…Blink!...It’s Gone

My childhood Summers were play play play play with the neighborhood kids, most days out all day, home for meals, back out to play, then home when the street lights came on.  Great memories!

Hello Kathy - my childhood summers of the sixties and seventies have been chronicled in numerous ways.  However, I remember younger days in summer school (with quite a few memorable field trips as well as extraordinary learning experiences) and swimming lessons.  

Our summer days were wonderful. Chores first, then we'd escape to where ever - ride our bikes to the park which was about 5 or so miles away and go swimming or walking in the woods or playing with friends. We'd go up to a different neighborhood and play with the kids there or we'd go in the woods or down to the pond behind our house or we'd make something in the garage or we'd color or we'd....  What we did not do was bury our face in computers or handheld devices because there was no such thing at the time. How wonderful!

I remember going back to school when I was a kid, it was always exciting to see my friends again, but that only lasted for about a week or two, haha.

Good morning Kathy. I spent my summers in a cottage in a river. We had a boat, canoe and other water toys. When it was time to come home, my mother would blow whistle on the pier or it was sundown. No computers, internet or bluetooth or color TV. Imagine that!!!!! Enjoy your day.

I think maybe summer could be split up 2 weeks in June, 2 weeks in August and then more learning. We are far behind the world and need to teach not program our kids.

Good morning Kathy,

Its hard to believe the kids are going back to school already! Our schools begin August 15th so Hudson and Beckett are thinking of what they need, Growing up we played outdoors all day long and only came in for dinner! We rode our bikes, played in the creek surrounding our house, played baseball, kickball with all the neighborhood kids, played hide and seek after dinner, went on vacation to a lake or Canada to fish and swim! No electronic devices we used our imagination!

Good morning, Kathy. These days, I blink and entire year has gone by (not just a summer)! The best thing I remember about summers is my stack of books from the library and long lazy days reading.

I recently asked the younger grandson if he was anxious to start school and he acknowledged that he was.

Happy Friday Kathy and I know that summers are shorten for kids, we use to start school the day after Labor Day.

I never did get into the routine of school. I couldn't stand it. Summers were my favorite time of the year because I got a break from the routine. Now fall is my favorite time. I love watching the summer transition, and I get a bit of a rest from the summer watering chore. I have a large veggie garden and 11 hanging baskets 13 flower baskets. Maybe I will share some pictures before the summer is over. 

It is nice to have many summertime memories.

One of my favorites was visits to our vacation home at Duck, NC. The property ran from the sound to the ocean.

Yes Kathy, Blink and summer vanishes faster than ice cream on a hot day, and suddenly it's back-to-school season! Didn’t summer just kick off?

They came on our local news last night and said summer was ending...I looked at wife and said Summer is not even half over...let alone ending.  She laughed and said they are talking about school.  I retorted and right there is why these kids are so confused...the start of school has nothing to do with summer, fall, winter, and spring.

And then she walked off!!  

Kathy school does not start up again around here until just before Labor Day.  So our kids still have almost a month left.

When I was in school summer vacation was 3 months.  I loved every minute of it, but was also excited to return to the classroom on the second week of September.  BUT, classrooms weren't air-conditioned back then. In the United Kingdom, elementary students get approximately 6 weeks off in summer.  I've often wondered if the U.S. lags behind in education, because of the amount of time students have off.

CONGRATULATIONS Kathy, on having this blog FEATURED in the Old Farts Clubgroup!  

I loved going to school and looked forward to it every summer, ironically in those days it was after the Labor Day Weekend, Endre

Heading out to play with the neighborhood kids and, except for lunch, not returning home until after dark.

Flashlight tag, playing in mud, riding bikes...drive-in movies with homemade popcorn is a special memory for me.

Hi Kathy:

Yep, believe it or not back to school is right around the corner - August 12 for the grands in LA but not until August 21 in Carlsbad.

I remember longer summers with school starting up the day after Labor Day. Lots of playing outdoors until it got dark, and several summers when I went to a YMCA camp on Chesapeake Bay. The equestrian bug hit sometime around 3rd grade so there was plenty of horseback riding, including our own horses for a number of years til I went off to college.

Jeff