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