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Friday, December 16, 2011

Memories of Christmas

My first memories of Christmas I can't personally remember but they were in Lake Forest Park a suburb of Seattle, Washington, and the year was 1950. I was 2 years old and and was waddling around the Christmas tree and I have a DVD(originally 16 mm movies taken by my Dad) of myself in Black and white talking to my Grandad while he explained how to play with tinker toys made of wood. The online ways to buy Tinker Toys are below. Also, as I grew older I played with Erector Sets made of metal by the time I was 3 to 5 years of age. I put some of the Erector set online addresses here too. However, you have to supervise kids unless they are very co-ordinated while they are building things so they don't poke themselves in the eyes or other kids in the eye with wood pieces or metal pieces. However, remember the native Americans in Alaska used to give their kids knives at 2 or 3 years of age because they needed to become proficient very young to be able to hunt and to cut meat to eat. Even myself when my Mom and Dad gave me a jacknife at age 5 the first thing I did was to test to see if it was sharp on my right thumb. I still have a scar across my right thumbprint from that experiment. However, I don't remember repeating that mistake even at 5. I was also given my father's .22 rifle by my grandmother when I was 8 in 1956. My father had started hunting with it when he was 6 and his younger brother 4 had a .22 pistol and his older brother had a small shotgun at age 9. They went out alone in Coos Bay, Oregon then in 1922 to hunt doves and quail for dinner. But they were so young that they brought back Robins instead. But their Mom dutifully cooked the Robins without saying anything so they wouldn't feel bad back then in 1922.

Also, when my own son was born in 1974, by Christmas I gave my own son a Tinkertoy set like my Grandfather had given me in 1950. I made a flying saucer out of the tinkertoys that I could spin on a longer piece of tinkertoy. I have a great picture of him smiling and holding the saucer made of tinkertoys while wearing a sweater with my cowboy knee high boots on that I used to ride my motorcycle off road back then to protect my legs from bushes, trees or falling under the motorcycle during a crash there on the remote dirt and rock back roads around Mt. Shasta . He and I rode all over the place on my motorcycle back then. He usually rode on the tank in front of me so I could better protect him because he was only 3. When he was 3 I was only 29 and still getting used to being married and being a father. I had my come to Jesus moment when I took him cross country skiing in a Gerry Carrier on my back when I fell down and he flew about 10 or 20 feet out of the Gerry Carrier and into the snow and started crying even though he wasn't hurt. I realized that I had to grow up unlike my friends who were mostly all still single and being crazy in all sorts of ways. Later, when my wife and I separated I raised him by myself and had to grow up even more. Now, he's 37 and has been married twice himself and is a nurse.

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