I miss being a kid and having three blissful months of summer vacation. The thing I probably miss most is the pool at my Grandma and Grandpa T's house. We had so many good times in that pool. Probably many of the cousins learned to swim there. The things I miss most:
- The blue life saver with the itchy yellow rope
- The "toilet seat" --you know what I mean.
- Playing volley ball and having the patio chairs fall into the pool
- The alligator egg diving game
- Grandma throwing popsicles off the porch to us down below
- The Fischer-Price house boat (see above photo)
- Rob pushing Kimber in the pool on Sundays
C'mon Theurers, what do you miss?
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I miss dressing up with Grandma's jewelry (you gotta love her clip on earrings!) and especially the furs (that shawl with the fox head always scared me).
I miss the smell of the pool room. I know it still smells the same, but I haven't had a reason to go down there.
I loved your pool memories! Especially the "toilet seat"--Em, are you confessing that you used to pee in the pool?
And Rob owes me something pretty for all the times he pushed me in the pool. I think that fates smiled on me when he fell in the pool in Vegas one Easter. It was v. funny.
I miss the smell of the pool room, too! I never peed in the pool, guys. I swear. Anyway, Grandma was never too happy with me and Rob for wearing the furs. I loved the rock with the magic dust. I also miss either Jon or Rob (I can't remember which) wearing Grandpa's old football cup for a darth vader mask. Good times!
I love this stuff! The football cup and the red football helmet--classic! What about the genie lamp in the bar area? I miss the shawls, too. What about that sweet leopard coat?
I love all of Em's recollections. It brings it all back. I would add a couple things. Every holiday, particularly the 4th of July, we'd barbeque and Grandma would make her "patio beans" which I never cared for but the grown-ups seemed to love for some strange reason.
I loved the two-inch-thick hamburgers that Grandma would make using her hamburger mold. There was no way anyone could look at one of those bad boys and say "Where's the beef" as in the old Wendy's commercials.
I remember teasing Emily mercilessly with chants of "Emily bemily boo. Was a little....".
I also loved the smell of the pool room and riding around the basement on that weird unicycle contraption.
Golf ball hunting and chipping around the backyard with Grandpa's old clubs.
The food brings back tons of memories too. Grandma's ultra-thin sugar cookies, the other sugar cookies with frosting, her rolls, the chocolate licorice that she always said was "stale" even when it was opened 5 seconds ago. That strange corn puff stuff with carmel on it. I could go on and on.
I'm sure there's plenty I'm forgetting but that's all for now.
Matt
I love all these memories. I can't believe how many things I've forgotten. Piling into the shower to get warm after swimming. The weird lever to open/close the pool. The hollow frog to hide Easter eggs under. That thing with the knife on one side and the fork on the other. Tippecanoe. The Laybrinth marble game. The old pinball machine. Grandma asking if you want a cold drink. "Yoohoo!/Coming!" when you arrive. "Be Good" when you leave.
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