Diesel, We always called marbles Immies. We'd say let's go play immies. Anybody else play immies? Dot ooo---This Email Scanned for Virus---ooo by ooo--- Norton Anti-Virus---ooo ----- Original Message ----- From: <DieselDis@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 6:13 AM Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories] Re: Ice > In a message dated 11/7/02 12:15:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, > Up2Nutrix@aol.com writes: > > > I see plenty of kids playing hopscotch out here in Colorado -- at least I > > see > > plenty of chalked hopscotch games on people's driveways, and occasionally I > > > > see the kids using them. Last May when I was in Michigan, I got several > > pictures of my friend's eight-year-old granddaughter playing hopscotch in > > her > > grandma's driveway, with her four-year-old sister trying to copy her. It > > brought back a bunch of wonderful memories. > > > > Doris > > Doris, > The kid's around here also play hopscotch. " I wonder where that word > came from"? I never see kid's jumping rope any more. Probably to much work > for today's kid's. Most are just happy setting in front of the TV. The big > back yard sport's when I was a kid was, Flipping baseball card's, stick ball, > and playing land with our pocket knife. You had to flip your knife in the > circle, and if it didn't stick, you lost your turn. If it stuck, then you cut > a straight line going by the way it landed in the circle, and you took the > biggest side in the circle, and that was your land. Then the other guy would > through into your land, and try to win it back. You kept going until one of > you had all the land. And of coarse there were marbles. > Diesel > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >