1982: REMEMBERING SLEDDING AND TADPOLE CATCHING AT KUSER FARM

I am sending a PDF copy of this post to my best friend Don Slabicki to include in the family scrapbook and remind his family of life as we lived it in the 1940's. Every visitor to this blog has a place that will remain in their memory for life.....the place where you and your friends spent those innocent childhood years. Over the years, I have chronicled the adventures of Tom Glover and Don Slabicki, recalling our Tom Sawyer-Huckleberry Finn adolescent years catching tadpoles, making slappys (slingshots), gathering green wild cherrys for our pea shooters, building model airplanes in the Glover basement, roller skating in Don's basement where we found the best and smoothest concrete around. (There were no paved sidewalks out in the sticks where we lived), traveling to the Hamilton Township Dumps on Patterson Avenue looking for old baby carriage wheels for our home built "chuggy," using the tools from Pop Slabicki's basement tool bench.

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Anonymous said...

How about when those tadpoles got legs but still had the tail? There was a certain wonder that was revealed to us bit by bit by those childhood hobbies. That was like when I learned that all of those "Garter" snakes were not the same and one bit lots more than the others. Behold, that is when I learned the difference between a Copperhead and a Garter! My neighbors we none to fond of my backyard cages, coops and other things that contained my little zoo.

Ed Millerick

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Tom Glover said...

Great story, Ed. I remember keeping those tadpoles until they got big and fat and turning them back to the pond. Remember how we were told the dragonflies would sew our lips if we got too close to them. I collected 1 garter snake for about a week, but my mom tipped the box and let him or her go.

Tom Glover

Tuesday, December 20, 2011