Games we played

I'm doing good, how have you been? My mom is doing good, the grandbaby is doing good too. Would you believe she will be 2 in January, isn't it something the way time goes by. She still has the heaht defects but so far its not causing her any difficulties, the docs are just keeping a close eye on her. Shhe is growing and doing what she is supposed too. Take care, as always its nice seeing you.

Hello Polly. How are you doing? Your mom and that grandbaby ok too? Yes in those days we actually had to interact with our friends and family. I was pretty good at jacks too. Did you do the hula hoop. That I could never get the hang of.

I never could do that darn hula hoop neither.

We spent hours playing it. It really took some skill. I wouldn't do very good these days. My hands don't do very will these days. I had difficulty picking up the skewers I spilled

I've seen them recently, but don't know where

Hello riyasam. I'm glad that I put a smile on your face. We don't always realize that we share so much with other countries.

The sticks are of different colors and pointed on both ends. One is black. You hold the sticks to the floor and let them fall. You then try to pick each one up with out moving any of the others. If you can get the black one you can use it to pick up the others. The person with the most sticks is the winner.

You started each round by picking up 1 jack at a time then it was two jacks and so forth. Then after you got through that full round you started doing fancy ways of picking up the jacks.

My folks would play that game with us when we got to be too annoying. It kept us busy when we were quit small.

Always good to have games that occupy the mind so as to quiet the mouth! lol! Don't yet have kids but between my husband and I, I am sure we'll produce some rambunctious children!

We played out side a lot too. I lived with my grandparents and had cousins right next door. In the summer we would stat out playing one type of movie and before we got very far would be into another type. We played a lot of Wagon Train (a popular tv show at that time) and Tarzan. We had a big pasture to roam around in. We also had some of those big cement tiles that they put under roads and played tag on them. But at night we would play things like pick-up sticks, jacks, mother may I, button button, and hide the thimble. We also played war and rummy. We also played a lot marbles. Now it's computer games of some sort.

I remember Wagon Train! Clint Eastwood was quite the hunk--still is! I also remember watching Sky King, Rip Cord, that Lloyd Bridges show where he was a diver and we all had to watch Lawrence Welk, Bonanza and Don Ameche's Circus. But we all watched together!