Did anyone ever play with "helicopter" seeds?

Any time now!! We had a VERY windy day today and this afternoon my yard was full of them! So they should be dropping very soon, have fun!

I personally don't have kids, but I know what you mean about all the wackos out there. I do remember when I was a kid going to the creek for tadpoles and crawfish. I always loved hide and seek and hopscotch. I remember one year on Easter we were all out in the yard after our easter egg hunt, with our hard boiled eggs. We had eaten all we could so we took our leftovers and played baseball with them. That was a hoot. I used to have one of the small swimming pools with the hard plastic sides that set up with a liner inside. I took the hard plastic side off and placed it on my hillside for a slide. I had the whole community of children at my house on my makeshift slide. We were out from daylight til dark back then and at dark we would be out catching lightning bugs in a jar. Those were the days. Nowadays, if your kids are out, they can't get out of eyesight, due to all the violence going on. It is really sad how our world has changed. No more hiking around the countryside unsupervised. It makes me want to cry, to hear all the violence and evil that is happening to our children nowadays.

They surely don't! Remember playing hopscotch outside? You probably don't remember skates with keys but skating down the sidewalk was fun. Playing marbles, tag, hide and seek, baseball in the back alley, all those wonderful outside games! Or just hiking down to a creek and catching frogs! It's too bad we keep our kids inside so much these days but with all the whackos that we let run around, we're all paranoid. And lazy, of course, it's much easier to sit them down in front of a tv or computer than actually playing with them or supervising them.

Thanks for sharing that. It's wonderful to be able to remember those things and sometimes relive them!

We drove through New York when I was a teen, it was so beautiful and so many trees!