hey denny.... if you get a chance, go check the snow sculpture on the east side of Carlisle just above Lomas, it's awesome <G> Snow shark attacking a snowman.
Dana On 1/3/07, Denny Valliant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/3/07, Grogs Tuts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .... > > > Course there was the one old guy (Old Man Swanson) that would actually > > yell, "you kids stay off of my lawn". I think someone egged his house > > > Hehehe. I had Mr. Mattucci (sp?). He'd actually come out and demand > his snow back[1] when we'd use the stuff on his lawn for forts/whatnot. > > Me and the bro actually made friends with him later on. He let me do some > B&W photos of his lawn gnomes. Little zany but ok really. Was sad when > he passed. Now there's a "new" family (little ones, etc.) there... > interesting > watching the old hoods change... used to be mostly old farts, now more kids > and such. > > We used to do wall walking- most blocks were all interconnected via walls, > so it was pretty cool. Some people didn't mind kids walking by on their > back walls, some did. So we commandoed it for the ones who minded. > > Pyro ball was pretty fun. Yup, lots of playing with fire. Some great > stories > there. Laser tag was fun for a bit... hrm... couple of daisy single > actions, > one CO2 rifle- made for lopsided battles- I've still got this great image of > my > little bro doing some rambo-ish dive and rolls, which really seemed to work > better for Rambo... Thought I'd put out my best buds eye with a ricochet... > > Yeah, guess it's pretty amazing we made it, thinking back. That was > way before all the drinking and crazyness of teendome even. 'Prolly more > luck involved there. =] > > Still, I can't help but think of my (i think) American Boys Handbook. > Wrote by some scout-ish folk from across the pond, iirc. It became > instantly obvious kids of a bygone age had had immensely more fun > than us modern kiddos. Gopher traps, atalatles- some phearsome > shit, actually. Awesome. Just awesome (like PBS!). > > Heh. Back in the day, when I was young - I'm not a kid anymore > but some days... =] ...mix tapes... ...now I'm an M.C. > Memories don't live like people do... /random mix > > Aw well. Back to work. =] > > [1] one guess as to how we gave it back =] > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:223541 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
