Summer on Scott Street

I have been meaning to blog about this since I started my blog but I always had so much other stuff to say. (Probably boring stuff to you!) Kel beat me to the punch and blogged about it several months ago. Since summer is coming to an end I thought I better hurry up and get this post in.

My parents couldn't have picked a better place to live and raise my sister and I. We lived on a dead-end street with approximately 40 children in the neighborhood. Finding a playmate was never hard. Summer time was the best on the street.

When we were younger we would play hide-and-go-seek until midnight. We would roller skate in the street, cheer lead, and ride our bikes but not without stopping at the fire hydrant to get a fill up on "Grease Lightening" gas. We caught lightening bugs and would pull out their lights and wore them as rings. (Poor little fella's) We would have lemonade stands where we would have our customer stay and drink their lemonade so that they could return the cup and we would use it for the next customer. We would play house with our dolls and sometimes could even talk the boys into playing with us and be our husbands. We would paint rocks and then go around the neighborhood trying to sell them. (Not sure if we ever sold any) And if we ever got thirsty or hungry we would go rap on Weez's door and ask for food. Each summer we held auditions for "Annie" and was going to put on a huge play that the whole neighborhood could come watch. However, we never made it to production. In early August we would follow the mailman around seeing if he had our teacher assignments with him.

As we grew older we played kick-ball, zone dodge ball, and four square. We would write "I heart whoever the boy was at the time" on the light pole in silver pens. Then there were the crushes on Brandon, Sean, Thomas, and Gary. (I tell you he not home!) When we turned 16 we would go cruising with each other in our cars. We would have slumber parties and stay up all night long.

We spent time together as families eating dinner together or go on outings together. We would do our school shopping together and get lost in the store and have to have our mothers paged.

We spun webs so closely that as adults we were in each others weddings and at the hospital for the births of each others children. We were more than neighbors on our street. We were and still to this day are family.