January 31, 2015
We used to ride the work horses. We (Ardith and Barbara Lowe, my best friends and neighbors from down the road and I) would take them back in the field and pretend that we were married to famous cowboys. Ardith was Mrs. Roy Rogers, Barb was Mrs. Tim Holt and I was Mrs. Gene Autry. What fun we would have.
We had Pal, who was a paint horse that we rode. He would try to get you off by scraping up against a building or something. It was quite effective. We usually didn't want to ride then.
I sometimes went swimming at Wamplers Lake with my friends, Ardith and Barbara Lowe. We also went to see the cowboy movies on Saturday afternoons at the Family Theater on South Main street in downtown Adrian.
After my brother, Charles bought a car, I would go roller skating at Sand Lake skating rink with him on Sunday afternoons. On the way home from skating, we would listen to the radio to such programs as “The Squeaking Door”, and “The Shadow”. We sometimes went on Saturday nights also. It was a lot of fun.
In the winter time:
We would go sledding down the big hill in our back field.. There was a pond at the bottom of that hill that we ice skated on. I never was very good at ice skating due to my weak ankles. The ice skates that I used were my brothers old ones. They didn't fit that good and had lower sides than a ladies skate would have, so that didn't help much. Also Charles had skis. I tried going down the small hill just behind our house on the skis, but I wasn't too good at that either. I wasn't very brave on the skis.
It was fun to lie in the snow and make angels.
Fox and Geese – was a game we played in the front yard. First, a large circle was trampled in the snow. Then spokes were stomped to fashion a wagon wheel. Next, a fox was picked . The remaining players were the geese. The geese ran around the wheel and the fox tried to tag a goose. The goose that was tagged became the fox and the game started over again.