Gloomy Woods

October 1978 is the date on the slide.

Looks like a scary forest to me.
Dad's part looks kind of scary to me too. I can't say I remember him wearing his hair that way.

I do remember those cool hats though.
You can tell they are new because you can still see the ball on top of Brett's hat.

These fell apart quickly because when you got on the bus the other kids would swat at them.
Sometimes the kid in the seat behind you would pull out a strand or two before you could catch him.
I think we ended up cutting them off ourselves.

Camp Grandkid 2010

Friday night Mom and Dad hosted a camp out for the grand-kids.
I initially said that the boys and I would camp out too but it turned out that Friday was one of the hottest days of the year.
So sleeping in a tent did not sound to fun to me.
We just stayed until after midnight and then went home.

The front yard that was nothing but grass when I was growing up was the forest for the camp out Friday night.

Here are the other cast of characters.














This was to be the girls tent. Was is the word for it.

Very nice camp grounds.

We did some fishing and the mosquitoes did most of the biting.

Though a few people caught some fish.


Dad took us to his peach tree and we ate some peaches and took a bag full home.

We sang some songs with Paige doing the leading.


It was nice to sit around an open fire while the state was under a heat advisory.
That is how we roll!



I heard that this was the way the night ended.
Brett slept in a tent next to the fire while everyone else went inside.

He should try deodorant sometime.

Goobers

My Brother Brett and I in 1982.

I think we were just being goofy. It couldn't be for school because the slide says August 1982 on it and school didn't start until September.
Good old days when you actually got the summer off.

Nice to see my first car too, a Datsun B210.

Yes those were our daily glasses.
We were not trying to be Steve Urkel that was the style of the day.
We were cool.