I promise to do a better job of proofing my contributions, or perhaps just need to do it a little earlier in the day! Hopefully you all read with such lightning speed, that you breeze right over my errors!
Thought I'd wax nostalgic today. I regret that we created far too few traditions with our own kids, as I remember many of ours fondly. Among those is the 4th of July picnic at the Elkhorn park. I'm sure it was chosen because of location, but I never understood why we couldn't picnic at a park with a pool. In spite of this shortcoming, we always had fun lighting snakes on the old tennis courts and playing with each other. But the most fun for me was when the progressive town of Elkhorn got a bowling alley which was airconditioned and open on July 4. Several of us were deemed old enough to walk across town and spend the afternoon in climate controlled comfort. This was a huge treat as none of our homes or cars had AC at that time. As I recall, we were almost the only ones in there at that time of day and bowling may have been as cheap as 3 games for $1.
As evening rolled around, we gathered at the Stamp or Bull farm to pool our fireworks and eat watermelon. Grandpa Bull, CB not Ervin, would exhibit his patriotism by bringing the biggest watermelon and the biggest Roman candles he could buy, or so it seemed to me as a child.
If I remember right, the Warrens were not present for any of this. I think perhaps you all spent the day with the Warrens at someones lake house. Is that correct?
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