2009-11-25, 08:01 PM
Oh, we're reminiscing now?
There was this huge freaking forest across the street from my house when I was growing up. I kind of lived in the boons but it was more like cottage country. There was a lake down the street one way, and two swamps down the street the other way. The forest was in between and houses lined the street opposite the forest.
The forest was in pretty poor condition and a lot of trees were dead so me and the neighbour kids who were all generally in the same age range as me (and we all had siblings that bridged such gaps) would go into the forest and pretend to karate chop the dead trees down. We would also hang out at the back of the swamp where there was a river and a really neat waterfall, as well as some beaver dams and stuff. It was pretty scenic.
There was also so fields directly behind the houses, and it was all hay. So we would play hide and seek in it, it got pretty intense sometimes but you could almost always hear us because it was such an open space and there was no traffic around. When the hay got bailed they left it out so we could climb around on it and hide behind it.
Winter was awesome, too, mostly, because the swamps would freeze and we could explore the little "islands" (just piece of land that were unreachable in the summer) and there was some pretty neat things to see. Come spring, when the ice was crackling and PRETTY DANGEROUS, we would take turns running across it. If anyone fell in we would spend a minute laughing before pulling them out. I remember one time we were doing it before school while waiting for the bus, and one of the kids fell in and didn't have time to go back home to change, so he had to go to school covered in swamp water. Our parents all scolded us for being dumb because it was so dangerous but it was a lot of fun and our snowsuits helped us float.
There was this huge freaking forest across the street from my house when I was growing up. I kind of lived in the boons but it was more like cottage country. There was a lake down the street one way, and two swamps down the street the other way. The forest was in between and houses lined the street opposite the forest.
The forest was in pretty poor condition and a lot of trees were dead so me and the neighbour kids who were all generally in the same age range as me (and we all had siblings that bridged such gaps) would go into the forest and pretend to karate chop the dead trees down. We would also hang out at the back of the swamp where there was a river and a really neat waterfall, as well as some beaver dams and stuff. It was pretty scenic.
There was also so fields directly behind the houses, and it was all hay. So we would play hide and seek in it, it got pretty intense sometimes but you could almost always hear us because it was such an open space and there was no traffic around. When the hay got bailed they left it out so we could climb around on it and hide behind it.
Winter was awesome, too, mostly, because the swamps would freeze and we could explore the little "islands" (just piece of land that were unreachable in the summer) and there was some pretty neat things to see. Come spring, when the ice was crackling and PRETTY DANGEROUS, we would take turns running across it. If anyone fell in we would spend a minute laughing before pulling them out. I remember one time we were doing it before school while waiting for the bus, and one of the kids fell in and didn't have time to go back home to change, so he had to go to school covered in swamp water. Our parents all scolded us for being dumb because it was so dangerous but it was a lot of fun and our snowsuits helped us float.