Come to think of it, we did have to go through the Woods en route via our 1/4 mile driveway.
I may complain about elements from time to time but had pretty much a great childhood. Country home, land, work, rope 20′ away to speed down to the creek. Cherry bombs and black snakes, making hay forts at the dairy down the road.
The worst one can say of it is that it allowed an eight year-old girl to have a varied and unique outdoor experience with fewer opportunities to be hurt or killed than in the wild, wild west. But that’s where I was and as a voracious reader Annie Oakley was right there with me.
Now after 40 years another person has bought our old house and is actually putting in a driveway. The dairy is shut down and so is their vineyard (for the driveway). One of “the kids” is an Olympic gold medal coach. So things go on the previously local farms.
What did I learn? I have always known some pretty good and interesting people and still keep in touch with a few from grade school, high school and college even though I moved away at age ten.
Also, my sister and I could have trimmed our weekly lawn mowing hours by a few if we put in a fence and had just a few pet goats! Ah, well, one only learns about goats later in life.
Cheers! Dee
Cooking with Dee 