re: What do you consider to be the "good ole days"?

4-9th grade '90's-00's. Middle school summers were like the sandlot for us. In junior high I began seriously hunting and fishing. Run ins with the law were harmless.

We killed/caught everything we could. We lived on 4 wheelers 24/7. I first picked up a bow. We used to swim the mandeville harbor in the summer to catch white trout at the end of the wall on the state park side. We took my buddies 14 ft with an old tiller to the 4 mile hump and trolled the causeway for specks, used to go every morning of the summer and tore them up. Musta caught bass out of every neighborhood in mandeville/covington. Spent winters in Delacroix venice and madisonville slaughtering ducks and petal mississippi tryna kill Bambi.

And this was also the time when girls were more of a pleasant mystery instead of a PITA.

I always try to put myself in those times, it's weird what can do it, a smell, time if year, a sight and I get a rush like I'm there again sneaking out my buddies house at 12 years old to go roll houses and stuff. Damn I had a good childhood