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<blockquote data-quote="KTMom91" data-source="post: 407544" data-attributes="member: 4040"><p>Going to Nana's in the South Valley was always relaxing. She had the best sycamore trees, huge old things that kept the back yard amazingly cool. We would sit on the porch and snap beans, or eat watermelon and spit the seeds on the lawn. Nana liked to color, so she would clear the dining room table and we pulled out our color books and crayons and would color or play card games inside during the afternoon. Did a lot of reading, too. Nana had been a second grade teacher, and had lots of cool things leftover from her classroom days for us to play with.</p><p></p><p>It was different when we went up to Granny's (dad's mom). My grandparents owned a Ben Franklin (back before they were craft stores) in a tiny town outside of Redding. My brother and I pretty had the run of the place, office and stockroom included, but we were never to go behind the registers so as not to bother the ladies who worked them. After examining everything in the store, playing with the adding machine (where you pushed the buttons you wanted, then pulled the lever to make it print), and double checking to see if any new books had come in, we made our evening selection of penny candies, writing everything down so they could reorder, and head home for dinner. After dinner, we brought out either Yahtzee of Scrabble, spread out the candy, and played for hours. My dad's parents were both devout insomniacs, as was/am I and my dad, so Mom and Bro crashed early while the rest of us continued playing and listening to late night TV...HEEEEEEEERE"S JOHNNY!</p><p></p><p>At home, we swam mornings and evenings, staying in during the afternoon to prevent horrendous sunburn and either reading, doing puzzles, or playing Scrabble or Yahtzee mostly. My mom also had ideas for projects; one year we collected rocks and then glued them together and painted them to look like animals. Another year we made salt dough Christmas ornaments. I usually went to summer school; it was more fun and less on the academic scale at the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KTMom91, post: 407544, member: 4040"] Going to Nana's in the South Valley was always relaxing. She had the best sycamore trees, huge old things that kept the back yard amazingly cool. We would sit on the porch and snap beans, or eat watermelon and spit the seeds on the lawn. Nana liked to color, so she would clear the dining room table and we pulled out our color books and crayons and would color or play card games inside during the afternoon. Did a lot of reading, too. Nana had been a second grade teacher, and had lots of cool things leftover from her classroom days for us to play with. It was different when we went up to Granny's (dad's mom). My grandparents owned a Ben Franklin (back before they were craft stores) in a tiny town outside of Redding. My brother and I pretty had the run of the place, office and stockroom included, but we were never to go behind the registers so as not to bother the ladies who worked them. After examining everything in the store, playing with the adding machine (where you pushed the buttons you wanted, then pulled the lever to make it print), and double checking to see if any new books had come in, we made our evening selection of penny candies, writing everything down so they could reorder, and head home for dinner. After dinner, we brought out either Yahtzee of Scrabble, spread out the candy, and played for hours. My dad's parents were both devout insomniacs, as was/am I and my dad, so Mom and Bro crashed early while the rest of us continued playing and listening to late night TV...HEEEEEEEERE"S JOHNNY! At home, we swam mornings and evenings, staying in during the afternoon to prevent horrendous sunburn and either reading, doing puzzles, or playing Scrabble or Yahtzee mostly. My mom also had ideas for projects; one year we collected rocks and then glued them together and painted them to look like animals. Another year we made salt dough Christmas ornaments. I usually went to summer school; it was more fun and less on the academic scale at the time. [/QUOTE]
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