Well..We weren't! In 1967 I was 8 years old and had a 50 customer paper route on the Camp LeJeune Marine base, my brother Timothy and I also cut lawns with a Mast Foos Push Reel Lawn mower by working side by side to push it! Timothy who was 7 at the time, would get on one handle, and I the other just to push this monster. We actually made more $ during the summer months doing odd jobs, than Poppa made in the Marine Corpse, gospel truth. 1967-> We were also walking the one mile to the Knox Marine Corps training pools to go swimming every weekend by ourselves or to the Little river inlet, while Poppa was stationed at Camp Lejeune... At 7 & 8 years old we were also climbing huge oaks to get to the mistletoe. We then placed enough to fill penny bags with and sold them for a nickle apiece from in front of the commissary, and guess what, the parents encouraged us to get them more... Momma had a very strict law, ifn it's nice outside, you stay outside, rarely were we allowed inside to set and mope around, and she pulled the TV out each night after supper for us to watch the two shows we each had turn picking! She practiced that with each of her 8 young ones! Ifn it's nice out, ya stay out!
I still keep my feathers numbered for such occasions.
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ReplyDeleteIn 1967 I was 8 years old and had a 50 customer paper route on the Camp LeJeune Marine base, my brother Timothy and I also cut lawns with a Mast Foos Push Reel Lawn mower by working side by side to push it!
Timothy who was 7 at the time, would get on one handle, and I the other just to push this monster. We actually made more $ during the summer months doing odd jobs, than Poppa made in the Marine Corpse, gospel truth. 1967->
We were also walking the one mile to the Knox Marine Corps training pools to go swimming every weekend by ourselves or to the Little river inlet, while Poppa was stationed at Camp Lejeune...
At 7 & 8 years old we were also climbing huge oaks to get to the mistletoe. We then placed enough to fill penny bags with and sold them for a nickle apiece from in front of the commissary, and guess what, the parents encouraged us to get them more...
Momma had a very strict law, ifn it's nice outside, you stay outside, rarely were we allowed inside to set and mope around, and she pulled the TV out each night after supper for us to watch the two shows we each had turn picking!
She practiced that with each of her 8 young ones! Ifn it's nice out, ya stay out!
Wish everyone was raised like that today! Do you ever get back up this way?
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