Cell phones weren't used back in the day

I have to go back 65-70 years to remember when I was a little kid. Things were much different in those days.

I remember that my mother worked all day while my father was away in the war. Grandmother took care of us till mother came home.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back before the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. No cell phones, unthinkable! The only way your mother could get you home was to stick her head out the back door and holler for you. You'd better be within earshot too!

We did not even have television back then, only the radio, and no video games at all. Portable phones had not been invented. We invented walkie-talkies with two tin cans strung together with a long string from the bottom of the can.

We had friends. We went outside and found them. We played marbles and collected the large pretty colored ones. We fell out of trees putting up a clubhouse, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us.

I was five years old in 1940 and had plenty of accidents and my parents did not go off and sue everyone whose yard or house where I got hurt. I fell off of a slide, nearly cut my head off on a close line and cracked a knee while jumping from the swings on the playground next door to our house. Each and every time my mother just kissed my hurt to make it well and said, "Please be more careful next time."

Golly, I was even paddled by my teacher and sent home with a note to my mother about it for my misbehavior! Heaven help the teacher who would do such a thing now-a-days.

Spring has sprung

This past Saturday, spring arrived on arguably the most beautiful day we have had this year. Warm and sunny weather greeted the many visitors to the Sebring International Raceway for the 12 Hours of Sebring.

There were several Lake Placid American Legionnaires who had not planned on such a beautiful day to go up to the Fort McCoy VFW. It was a real blessing to have such great weather go to the Ocala facility. Frankie Bach, a local musician, who entertains at many local clubs, went along with the group. On this visit Frankie took the tips he had received for the past three months from the American Legion, totaling almost $70, and donated it to the veterans to help buy some picnic tables and outdoor furniture.

Oh man! Not again

As you read this I am likely lying on a cold stainless steel table with my behind exposed to one of the most undesired procedures people must endure in keeping healthy, a colonoscopy. I had this exam about five years ago and have only vague memories of what happened. I remember putting on a gown, open in the back of course, lying down and nothing again until I was in the car with the PW and wanting something to eat, preferably a big Burger King sandwich. The toughest part of this exam is the preparation the day before going without any food since breakfast Wednesday morning.

I am going to again be very hungry in a few hours.