Hoping you all had a great weekend and are ready to start the brand new week. There is a holiday today we should all hate instead of celebrating and reason being it is “NATIONAL PARKING METER DAY.” Two gentlemen Holger George Thuesen and Gerald A. Hale designed the first working parking meter in 1935. They both were engineering professors at Oklahoma State and started the original work in 1933. The first installed parking meter was in Oklahoma City on July 16, 1935. Put your dime in and be back in time.
I missed some great holidays that were celebrated on Sunday, so if you don’t mind I’m going to list a few and poke some fun.
BE A DORK DAY – Aren’t we all at times, I find myself becoming one more and more each day. You can ask Roe on that one.
GUMMY WORM DAY – I love any type of gummy candy, worms, people, snails, fish regular flavor or sour. We had a kind of gummy candy back growing up you had the red half-dollars, licorice pipes even a box of Juicy Fruits could have been considered a gummy type candy.
WOODIE WAGON DAY – What kid did not have a wagon growing up? I may not have had a woodie one but I know I had one of those red wagons that lasted me years as a kid. That wagon was anything you wanted it to be, a fort, troop transport, racing car it was all up to your imagination.
Finally “COW APPRECIATION DAY” say thank you to all those cows for that wonderful drink called milk and don’t forget the cheese. It is also “NATIONAL ICE CREAM DAY”, so run down to your local ice cream shop and order your favorite to enjoy. Have a great day Guys and Dolls.
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Joe, do you remember getting permission from the neighbors to "water" their lawn on summer evenings? That brought the "night crawlers" up to escape the "flood" though it didn't take much. Believe it or not, there was quite an art to this. You had to softly "stalk" the critters and if one heavy step would send them back underground. Also, if the direct beam of the flashlight hit one, poof; if was, like Kermit said in the Muppet Movie, "Gone With the Schwinn". So, you had to be careful and spot them at the edge of the flashlight beam and then trap one with a "pinch" of the fingers right at the "collar". Real excitement was getting a "double header" or two at once. It seems that the "collar" of the worm was where they did "it" and you would find two in "deep embrace". Essentially there were two types of worms. The common "earthworm" was much smaller and better for trout and those larger crawlers were more for catfish and bass. We would then bicycle up "The Pike" and down Whitehead Road to the pond and the Assumpink Creek that fed it (Whitehead's) fishing along the "Sweetbriar" section. Of course we could have just bought worms at "Kozloski's" Brunswick Sports but heck half the fun was in "worming". At 12, I bought my first boat, an old wood skiff and somewhere picked up a "Muncie Mighty-Mite half horse motor for it. Ahhhhh, the days before fancy entertainment eh?
Get well ... Skip
We kept the boat at an old hermits place. You may remember the Stefanski family? The brother, a bachelor, had a small 2 room place on the creek. A real outdoor/woodsman he lived off the swamps back there, trapping and hunting. For some reason he took a liking to us and taught us to shoot and trap minnies and "set a line". We were so lucky.
Skip nothing like looking for night crawlers to go fishing. If none Brunswick Sporting Goods was the answer.
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