Never A Dull Moment

There was no boredom in the days of my childhood; one word that was seldom heard was “I'm bored”, could it be that there was never time enough to do all the things that was fun and needful to life.

Children in my childhood days did not have TV, electric toys, video games, computers, or even small toys like today. There may have been some like a cap gun, marvels, jacks, small wind up toy of some kind or maybe a small doll for the girls. Mostly the toys that we had were hand made by our parents or we learned how to make our own toys and games. There was such toys as the sling shot, the acorn shooter the wheel and guide, whistles or buzzer (flat thin peace of wood on a staring, swung around over the head).

The small children like hide and seek, tag, cowboys and Indians, guessing games, storing telling and many other, entertaining things.

The larger children like running contests, horseback riding, swimming the creek, catching fish, turtles and crawfish. hunting in the woods and fields for game, running a trap line early in the morning. Other things they liked to do was look for nuts and berries and explore all the other things the woods had to offer like the small caves, running springs many kinds of trees and small plants, we learned the name of most of them.

No time to be boarded, we were free to go anywhere on the farm with out permission as long as our work
was done. but needed permission to go off the farm to a neighbors or friends house.
We always enjoyed working the horses and mules the farm animals was fun too, taking care of some of the
baby animals watching them run and play.

Saturday afternoon and Sundays were wonderful times to go visiting cousins and neighbors, some time meeting at the country stores or in town. The town squire was a great place to meet and visit, sometime we would go home with some of the kinfolk or they would come home with us.

Night fall would most usually catch us running and playing and having fun even after a day of work, life on the farm was always a time of activity, never a dull moment.

_Carlis B. Wilson