thankyoujesus

[susandennis]

For the clouds. This morning was supposed to be a fryer and, instead, we have wonderful beautiful heavenly clouds. This will make the whole day cooler than threatened. I am unimaginably grateful.

I have a short list today which is nice...
1. add my latest read to my book page
2. quick trip to the library to pick up the next one
3. a bit of sewing/mending
4. laundry (betty's been begging for more)

That's really it. I have a quick bit of work that needs to be done but it will only take about an inning of today's game to polish that off. More may come in from my one client who sometimes checks in on weekends but even she probably won't have much until Monday.

This feels like the first time in a long time that I've looked down the nose of a free weekend. Cool.



I remember hot Summer nights in North Carolina - after dinner we'd go outside and gather up our friends and play a game called Kick the Can. I remember it was always with a large can (probably the equivalent of today's 2 liter bottle) that had held Welchade grape drink. One person would kick the can and everyone would scatter and I have no idea what happened after that. But we played it a lot...

We had lots of kids in the neighborhood - Babsie lived 2 doors down and Ted lived 2 doors down the other way and Stephen was next door. They were all my age. Carol and Lou lived across the street and Ellen lived across the other one (we lived on a corner). And then there was my brother and my sister. And various hangersoners. So we had a fairly good crowd available at all times.

Anyone else ever play Kick the Can? What happened after you kicked?

I finally looked it up... Man, this sounds complicated!!

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[joyoflj.livejournal.com]

We played kick the can and somehow made bases like baseballs to run around. To tag people out you had to FIRST kick the can then run after a person to tag them with your hand.

We also played duck, duck, goose but not many know of this game. Did you ever play that.

And PICKLE! Remember playing that?

[susandennis]

I think you may be right about the hand tagging base running thing of Kick the Can... Excellent...

I learned of duck, duck, goose about 10 years ago. And now I can't remember how. Short term memory loss :)

And nope on Pickle.

[jawnbc]

We played Kick the Can all summer. "tap tap tap I see Kathleen behind the red Chevrolet!" (we played in a parking lot).

I lived in fear of having my hand kicked while tapping.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I also remember playing Kick the Can as a child but couldn't remember any of the details.

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

I've never played Kick The Can. All of us kids would play just about everything else though. I had to go in when the street lights came on and used to feel sooooo left out when I could hear the other kids still out playing.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

I should go look it up -- but we had one person protecting the can, and trying to tag everyone else who was a) hiding and b) trying to kick the can. Once you were tagged, you became a fellow defender of the can. Until everyone was caught, or someone had kicked the can.