Nice.
My 1st grade walk was across a 5 lane highway. Gas Station on the other side. Old place with a cooler. I do remember wearing a bright yellow rain coat and hat on stormy days.
Some days just stick with you. I was 5 and the only kid in class that could count to 100. I would come home and was allowed an ice cream treat.
Tonka trucks came out as I had a sand place for me to play.
Parents were working. Life was good
Hemingway would have been proud.
Did you have rubbers? For your shoes that is. ..
To think childhood and favorite toys. You favored Tonka trucks. My sister wanted a Chatty Cathy doll. My cousin wanted magic tricks. Me.. I wanted an oven range, refrigerator, and sink during the time we lived in the country (earliest childhood) There was a tall, broad full leafed tree under which I sat up ‘house’ and every flavored mud pie a young girl might make was formed and baked under the sun. There was never lack of imagination. :-) However, the same cannot be said about judgment, remembering time old eggs (rotten) were used in the pie. Barf city!