I have 6 grandkids and one on the way....I am 52 and make no bones about
it....we don't have armadillos in Michigan....we do have lots of groundhogs,
though, and we do have snakes....milk snakes look just like coral snakes and
are kind of fun to play with as long as you don't drop them into the hot
dishwater...(don't ask me how I know this....) Right now I have to keep the
kids out of the woods, though, because the red fox have a litter and i don't
want them to move away....most eerie animal voices of the night when they
yip and yell at the moon....
"felton" wrote in message
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:10:59 GMT, "katysails"
wrote:

Yeah...the good old days....kids today are really boring.....no
initiative....I take my grandkids out and teach them bad things like
building forts out of junk from the barn and climbing trees and sticking
the
hose down the groundhog hole.....Protective Servioces will probably cart
me
away one day....

Grandkids? You can't be old enough for grandkids. Don't you have any
armadillos to chase? That used to be fun. Maybe it still would
be...I'll have to be on the lookout, although I was never really sure
what to do with them once I caught them. The pursuit was fun, in a
Lord of the Flies sort of way. We used to go snake hunting a lot..to
catch them. Now I have really gotten too old to remember what the
appeal was of catching snakes.





"felton" wrote in message
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:40:10 GMT, "katysails"
wrote:

My brother used to throw aerosol cans into our 55 gallon trash burner
when
we were kids....split it down the sides and flattened it....was quite
the
sight....and he didn't have to go to Purdue to accomplish it....

Growing up in a relatively small town in the middle of nowhere, there
used to be a lot of things done to break the boredom that would now be
on the national news. Amateur bomb making, death defying pranks and
the like. Times have changed, though.

Come to think of it, it wasn't all that uncommon to see folks with
missing fingers when I was growing up... One of the side effects of
that "go outside and play" theory of child raising.



"felton" wrote in message
news On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:23:48 GMT, "Scout"
wrote:

While searching for a charcoal starter-chimney, I stumbled upon
this
unique
method of getting the grill ready in a hurry.
Don't miss the picture.
Scout
http://home.att.net/~purduejacksonville/grill.html

Yowee. Looks exciting...to watch from afar

Reminds me a little of the old joke. A new skydiver was making his
first jump. He pulls the first ripcord...nothing happens. He tries
the reserve chute...nothing happens.

As he is falling towards Earth, he sees someone else on the way up.
As they pass, he asks, "excuse me, you do you know anything about
parachutes?" The other guy replies, "sorry, no, do you know
anything
about propane stoves?"

Hey, I said it was an old joke.