NOW AND THEN

What a difference a few months can make! This is the Norwood Boat Launch, on the TOP is how it looked this winter and on the BOTTOM how it looked on May 6th - wild, eh?



Same kind of deal with these photos - interesting to say the least, eh?

This particular creek holds special memories for me as this is where many of us Knapps Station kids gathered, made rafts and explored the "mighty" Knapps river (make that a stream). Our rafts were easy enough to carry over dry areas and plop down into another creek or stream running nearby and OMG the fun we had playing all sorts of games and of course getting wet and covered in mud as we dragged and splashed through these streams.

Our biggest mission was to catch bullfrogs and yes, of course we ate frog legs and today you pay a goodly sum for this yummy food and we just whack'em and took'em home, fried up and ate'em. Real class act!

Needless to say parents were not too happy to see us coming home caked in mud, wet and smelly but hey, that's why we had bathtubs, right? Kids today have no idea how much fun you can have outside or the games and adventures you can dream up -- you can do almost as much as your imagination allows and man, we had some wild imaginations!

Come on, you can't tell me just looking at these photos and reading about my childhood memories hasn't stirred up your own. Fun to recall them, isn't it? And to think, you can drive to these place today and just remember what it was like during your childhood. Sadly some places have changed and the only thing you have is a mental picture of how it use to look but that's still a good memory to have and to share.

So get out there and see the outside world, relive your childhood --oh shit, don't start building rafts or splashing in mud holes -- damn, that would have your kids placing you in some mental hospital. Kids today just don't have our sense of humor or sense of adventure, they are too busy with computers and video games and loud music -- hell, they'll be deaf by 30 and bigger than a house because they have elected to sit on their arses all day, every day. So be it, we got our memories and we're gonna share and enjoy them, right?

You all have a great day -- warmer weather is just around the corner!