Seems a lot of us liked our paper dolls. I remember when you could go to the five and dime (we had two, Danner's and Ben Franklin's) and buy a whole booklet for a dime. Of course, a dime was pretty hard to come by back in those days and when you were 7 or 8. We cut furniture out of old Sears and Penney's catalogs and make pretend rooms. I read a lot, too. Like YogaLady, we got library cards very young. The library had a summer reading club. If you read 10 books and gave an oral book report to the librarian you got to go on a picnic at the end of summer. I usually had read at least double that amount. We also played games. We played riddle-dee-dee, I see something you don't see. Then you would give a hint--like it begins with a "B". When we would go to Grandma J's, she'd play cards with us. Mainly "War" which can last forever--bless her heart. Summer was for bike riding--with some friends we used to ride 5 miles out into the country to my grandparents' farm. We'd go to the creek to cool off and explore the woods. This was in 7-8 grades. Winter was sledding and ice skating at Herkles pond. Usually a fire to warm us when needed and hot chocolate in thermos bottles. Gosh, sometimes it'd be fun to be young again.

Sitting in the warm sun on the beach of my favorite pond on Cape Cod Swimming in the warm water of my favorite pond on Cape Cod Bouncing my grandchildren on my knee. Since I don't have any, that is a pipe dream!

That's a good question. This is the first weekend since January that we have not had to be at a game, practice, or meet. Not even a birthday party for any friends. Whew. I like to sleep in, read, and get out somewhere by myself. Not that I really enjoy it, but I also like to get the laundry and grocery shopping done so weekdays go smoother.

Shop for clothes. Eat my friend's cooking...she always invites me for Thanksgiving and Christmas....her food is almost impossible to choke down, plus she lets her raccoons eat off of her dishes. (Not outside coons...coons in filthy cages). I don't like to pot waterlilies...but have to because I have so many of them.