Very calm today. I keep sticking my head out the window and taking deep breathes in. My window is wide open and I'm listening to the sound of cars passing on the street and some birds are singing in the trees out back. The air feels cool, but refreshing.
I wish there wasn't any snow, I really want it to be spring. I feel like going on a nice walk or playing baseball and basketball in the park ... I want to go to Port Dalhousie and grab an ice cream cone then walk down the pier and feed the ducks ...
I'm remembering days where grandpa Reid would take me to the park and push me on the swing ... he'd sing Let's Go Fly A Kite as I swung higher and higher.
I remember sitting by the pond that grandpa made. It had 2 waterfalls and 3 different sections. There was a bridge to cross and a little island with a house for the various creatures that lived in the pond. Long grasses and fragrant flowers grew on the hill that acted as a sort of background. There was a bench where Dar and I used to sit and she read snips from the Frog and Toad books. Then I'd laugh because she'd squeel when a frog hopped pass and nearly land in her glass of lemonade.
I remember the campfires we'd have outback gram's old. I'd be sticky from eating so many roasted marshmallows and grammy would bring out a damp cloth to wash me up, only to have me run and do it again.
I remember sitting out in the gazebo that grandpa built, eating cake and then running down the path to Dar's house and jumping into the pool. Then I'd swim around for hours until my entire self turned into a prune. Then Jackie and I made forts on the porch with towls and sheets.
I remember dad taking me over to the baseball field and pitching to me, only to have me whack it over his head and the back fence. Ha ha ha I was his slugger all right.
I remember walking with mom and Jen down to Buzby's corner store to buy bags of penny candy and bottles of coke. We'd go up to John and Nancy's and play with the cats then past the park where there was a statue of a man ... I wonder who he was.
I remember dragging my cassette player outside and dancing around the porch singing Paula Abdul. Then playing Power Rangers with a couple of the neighborhood girls and then running over to the pond beside the railway tracks to catch tad poles or hold secret meetings at our fort, ha ha ha the fort that had our secret weapons incase anyone tried to invade us.
OH ... I remember my walks to church with Taylor and grandma Barclay. Or how I would always sneak into grammy B's purse and grab handfuls of scotch mints and eat them during Sunday school.
I remember walking Shenda and Fergy with grandpa Barclay and how he would whistle Scottish tunes that we had just heard on the record player.
Ha ha ha ... I rememeber grandma Barclay making me toast houses and scooping me up huge ice cream cones ... or letting me help her make empire biscuits
I remember watching Auntie Annabelle teach Taylor how to play the chanter (a piece of the bagpipes) and then I snatched it up and started playing, just that my hands were to small to hit the keys ...
HA HA HA HA ... or when taylor and I slept at grandma B's and would fight over who got to sleep with the Nessie toy or who got which bed ... and on New Years we'd fight over who got to bang the biggest pot and pan ...
I remember Christmas parties at grandma B's .... where everyone would be playing Yahtzee and it would smell so good ...
Okay I am going to stop now because this is hurting my head ... what you just witnessed was what I have been going through. Having large amounts of memories come into my head ... as you saw near the end I was writing shorter descriptions because too much was flowing at once ... I only typed up a few of the things that popped in my head ... but yea