Willie I remember walking down to the Patton's with my Delk & Leffew cousins. We built stilts and tried walking around the yard with them. I had no luck so I stuck to poking 2 holes in a big can and drawing a rope through and then walking on the cans.. Milly WARD Piros My Mind is Like Lightning.... One Brilliant Flash and poofffffffffffffffffff ! It's Gone.......

Milly and Willie, What a memory of walking with tin cans and a string. I had the grandchildren doing that this weekend in the 7 inches of new snow we got. They had a ball. The larger coffee cans worked well, we also flattened grocery boxes for sleds, they worked better and went faster than the ones they bought from the store. After playing out in the snow for three hours, we came in and took soup cans and string and made telephones while the milk was heating for hot chocolate. Needless to say it was a good weekend. Patty ----- Original Message ----- From: <MPiros1120@aol.com> To: <tnfentre@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [TNFENTRE] Parents of Bobby, Boyd, and Haskell Patton > Willie > > I remember walking down to the Patton's with my Delk & Leffew cousins. We > built stilts and tried walking around the yard with them. I had no luck so I > stuck to poking 2 holes in a big can and drawing a rope through and then walking > on the cans.. > > Milly WARD Piros > > My Mind is Like Lightning.... > One Brilliant Flash and poofffffffffffffffffff ! It's Gone....... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Has anyone ever heard stilts called Tom Walkers? My father-in-law from Arkansas called stilts Tom Walkers. Like a lot of things, Arkansas is very different. Don

More good memories, Patty! Willie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill and Patty" <ktfsandj@tznet.com> To: <tnfentre@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:01 AM Subject: Re: [TNFENTRE] Parents of Bobby, Boyd, and Haskell Patton > Milly and Willie, > > What a memory of walking with tin cans and a string. I had the > grandchildren doing that this weekend in the 7 inches of new snow we got. > They had a ball. The larger coffee cans worked well, we also flattened > grocery boxes for sleds, they worked better and went faster than the ones > they bought from the store. After playing out in the snow for three > hours, > we came in and took soup cans and string and made telephones while the > milk > was heating for hot chocolate. > > Needless to say it was a good weekend. > > Patty > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <MPiros1120@aol.com> > To: <tnfentre@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:38 PM > Subject: Re: [TNFENTRE] Parents of Bobby, Boyd, and Haskell Patton > > >> Willie >> >> I remember walking down to the Patton's with my Delk & Leffew cousins. We >> built stilts and tried walking around the yard with them. I had no luck >> so > I >> stuck to poking 2 holes in a big can and drawing a rope through and then > walking >> on the cans.. >> >> Milly WARD Piros >> >> My Mind is Like Lightning.... >> One Brilliant Flash and poofffffffffffffffffff ! It's Gone....... >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Ahhh! Such pleasant memories for me, Milly. I've made those stilts, and walked on cans. After we moved to a house on the "Big Pike" (Highway 28), we would stomp on the side of beer cans we found along the road, and the cans would stick to our feet. We then used them to "skate" (slide) on the pavement. Another favorite pastime was making a "click 'n' wheel" which we pushed around a lot for fun. The click was a piece of bailing wire about 3 feet long with a little cup bent in the lower end and it was folded for strength where we held it. We used the "click" to push a small iron wheel (the band off a wagon wheel hub). It's so sad that the modern generation has to have the latest edition of gameboy or the fanciest playstation, and it becomes their entertainment and their social life. No wonder we have problems with children relating to each other and to their parents, grandparents, and teachers. Willie ----- Original Message ----- From: <MPiros1120@aol.com> To: <tnfentre@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [TNFENTRE] Parents of Bobby, Boyd, and Haskell Patton > Willie > > I remember walking down to the Patton's with my Delk & Leffew cousins. We > built stilts and tried walking around the yard with them. I had no luck so > I > stuck to poking 2 holes in a big can and drawing a rope through and then > walking > on the cans.. > > Milly WARD Piros > > My Mind is Like Lightning.... > One Brilliant Flash and poofffffffffffffffffff ! It's Gone....... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

--- "Willie R. Beaty" <wbeaty@twlakes.net> wrote: > It's so sad that the modern generation has to have > the latest edition of > gameboy or the fanciest playstation, and it becomes > their entertainment and > their social life. No wonder we have problems with > children relating to each > other and to their parents, grandparents, and > teachers. > > Willie My two grandsons that live near me, ages 3 & almost 7, have more toys, of all types, than every kid in my elementary school did (mid 1950s). We weren't "poor", in my way of thinking, we just knew how to play more creatively. Ernie Hurst Ernie Hurst ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com