The plants clean the water. If you use the right balance of plants and maintain them you have crystal clear water. Aka you can see if an alligator is.... Mike n - as kids, we swam in ponds more so than public pools. My grandparents had a farm with 3 ponds, but one was full of snakes and turtles, so we avoided that one. It was shallow anyway. The best one was spring fed. I dont think i ever found the bottom of it. we fished in it too. In fact, it had too many fish, so they never grew. wed knock down wasp nests and use the larvae for bait, catch small perch and keep them in a live bait box, then granddad would set trot lines across the arkansas river and bait them with the fish we caught. Hed catch 150-200 pounds of catfish and fill his freezer. He had some pretty good size frogs there too. Frog legs were good eating for breakfast with gravy and biscuits, and eggs and fried potatoes. My grandmother had a nice fancy house with a nice Jenaire stove, but she made granddad put in a wood burning cook stove she cooked off of in the winter. It really added flavor to food. Oh, those days are gone. Now we have burger king and mcdonalds and chilis and ... Randy Cook Ahhh the good ole stories our kids will never be able to tell their kids.....Sounded similar to my childhood, I love it. I have swam in a public pool once while taking a scuba diving course, it was and will be the only time I have ever done so. Laurent God what I would give to live this way now. I had an awesome childhood at state parks where we were into rustic camping and family time. We lived for the 2 days my Dad had off work so we would camp out and play card and dice games all night. I feel sorry for the bland life these kids have now. They have no adventure or imagination. I pray the world starts over and all electric is gone. I am young and still would enjoy reading by candle. How sad machines took over most of the jobs and lives of what these kids will never know. Too bad we can not go backwards instead when life was grand. Mike n - Our famliy had plenty of dysfunction due to emotional and abuse issues, but we also learned to work at an early age and enjoyed a whole bunch of nature. I loved driving the tractor and plowing and sowing and fertilizing and milking a silly old milk cow, my grandmother taught me how to do that. Learned to separate cream and fat from the milk, churn butter, a typically female role, but i wanted to learn how to do it. didnt care who was supposed to do it. We camped out, fished, hunted for dove, quail, pheasant and duck. Never liked the taste of duck. Dont forget turnkey, much different taste than Butterball Turkeys. Dont eat meat anymore. I try to stay with fish. Stopped at a cat fish restaurant the other day. After i finished i noticed the sign said, Farm raised cat fish. I didnt eat too much of it because it didnt seem to taste a whole lot like cat fish. I found out why. Maybe someday i can have some catfish that is not farm raised. I think im funny. S - Yea i remember swimming in my parents dams on the farm with the horses, yes we have snakes, spiders, eels etc but life is meant to be lived and they dont lie in wait to attack you! Generally speaking you stay away from them & they stay away from you. Horses were a good deterrent too, sad my kids cant grow up like this as we dont have the farm anymore Sandy - Love it, pretty much how I grew up Mike - As a child life was simple. i had great grand parents, who were country people. Granddad feared nothing. He built homes and barnes from scrap using us as helpers. We learned how to live lean and we still did everything we wanted to to, well, most things. Granddad swam with us and he and the sons in laws loved handfishing. I carried the catch in the water, while they fished. Admittedly, it scared the hell out of me watching them catch fish with their hands. We had an old nag horse, she hated us kids, but was gently enough not to hurt us. she knew we feared her, so she tolerated us. besides, that gallon of oates was an easy swap for her. We learned how hogs and sheep and cattle were neutered, the kids, were always part of the growth and change pertaining to animals. We gathered eggs enjoyed good well water in western Oklahoma. Its like it came out of the ground, cold, ice cold. good memories, with fears, but with learning and opportunity. Gregory - Great nostalgia fondly remembered that makes me wanna puke on new technologies hurriedly seeking to scrub our memories clean of raw ingenuity many of us warmly embrace as cherished memories. B - Life has certainly evolved in a different direction. I grew up in the Caribbean in the 50s and 60s. Life was pretty clear cut and simple. Not so now. Better, worse. Hard to say. V - What a great memory, I can taste your food, smell your grass, and feel your water. Sounds so wonderful to live in such a time Ann - Those days arent gone unless we choose to loose them. The world around us is very different. But the old opportunities are still available to us. F - Those days dont need to be gone... You know how. Bring them back. Make it into a tradition and pass it on... Thats what good times and lessons are for... You can do it... H - This sounds like an awesome childhood and slightly like mine except we had ducks in our pond so we didnt swim in it, more than a few times haha M. - That was worth reading you should write those memories are precious
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 12:18:48 +0000
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