re: Do you feel like your kids are getting the short end of the stick?

quote:

---

Walking or biking to the nearest woods to squirrel hunt after school. Building a fort in the woods

---

i grew up in the back on covington country club across from the pailett woods. back then there was nothing but woods all the way to the river, and all the way to highway 22

we duck hunted the marsh, deer/squirrel hunted the woods, and rode bikes all thru those woods, camped out all weekend/etc. we'd disappear on friday after school and only come back to check in

when they started building beau chene, we would sneak in after dark and steal materials to build our fort. we set the posts in concrete, used treated timbers and lumber, etc...all the good stuff we could carry off. i would bet anyone that at least the structural frame is still there in the woods, 40 years later