Staying Cool????

[Tammie]

I don't know about where you are located...but here in Wisconsin we are having quite the heat wave...temps in the 90's and the humidity is just oppressive! I'm drinking lots of water with ice and lemon in it, it's cool and refreshing.
As a kids, my brother and I thought it was fun to put on our bathings suits and spray each other with the hose to try and stay cool. Or fill a bucket with water and sit our little bottoms in it to soak! I lived out in the country where there weren't swimming pools to go visiting. So we made do with our garden hose!
How about you, what did you do as a kid to stay cool?!!
Tammie

[Deed]

Same here Tammie, going to be in the 90's today, but so far the humidity has been staying down this last week. Almost makes it bareable. LOL

As kids we played in the hose and for a time we had a small above ground pool. We didn't use a bucket to sit in but a galvanized tub! There also was a public pool by my aunt's house and we went there a lot too. Cost was 35¢, 10¢ to swim for the entire day and 25¢ for a basket to put your clothes in which you got back when you turned the key in. Then there was the ice cream man! You should have seen us run whenever he showed up at my aunt's or grandma's house. LOL the memories.................

[Tammie]

Now it sounds like you had some great ways to stay cool Dee!! The ice-cream truck sounds awesome, I could only dream of something like that in the country where I lived. Our fun cool treats were sucking on ice-cubes out of the freezer! LOL

[ellise]

I grew up in the city and the pool wasn't far from our home so we would walk there. .50¢ for a locker and swim all day.

We also had a pool in the back yard until Daddy filled it in because sis went too close to it one day! we had a slip & slide, my sister and I wore that thing out. not to mention the waterhose.

When we would go to Grandma's we would all walk do to the pond or the rock quarry and go swimming, Swing off the rope and splash into the water we had so much fun.

[Tammie]

Lucky you Ellise~ having the slip and slide I mean! I'm jealous!! I always wanted one of those...thought they just looked so darned fun.

[Admin]

Ah summer time as a child. Running thru the sprinkler, going to the lake, running around all day in our swimsuits.

Going up town to get a popscicle,...those were the days.

[Tammie]

Ahhh, Carolyn, you had to mention popsicles!!!
I am thinking of how I used to love the root beer float ones...they were like root beer tasting on the outside and had vanilla ice cream in the middle....'member???
Or those orange push ups? Loved those too!!
Now I'm hungry....

[lucie]

When I was a little girl, we had no pool...my mom would fill a large metal bucket and I would sit in it. lol...I would also run through the sprinkler...and a little older I would go to the city pool with my friends--that was so much fun!

I was also very lucky that starting age 5 we would go up north in a small cabin my father had built and there was a river there--we would go swimming every summer week-end. It was great! I stopped going every week-end when I was 19 because I would work during summers, but still all my adult life, any chance I had I would go up north to swim in that river....

[Tammie]

sounds like lovely memories Lucie, and a great way to stay cool. I bet that river water was fresh and "cold"!!!!!
Tammie