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mia

(8,360 posts) Mon Sep 21, 2020, 11:08 PM Sep 2020

Childhood memories.

Catching lightning bugs was so much fun.

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Childhood memories. (Original Post) mia Sep 2020 OP

It was great, wasn't it? Bayard Sep 2020 #1

Making clover chains and watching clouds was a favorite pastime. mia Sep 2020 #2

I have fond memories of chasing and capturing lightning bugs as an adult when I was abqtommy Sep 2020 #3

Bayard

(22,048 posts)

1. It was great, wasn't it?

Reply to mia (Original post)

Tue Sep 22, 2020, 12:12 AM

Sep 2020

I only got talked into squeezing one to make a glow ring around my finger one time. Ugh.

Do kids do stuff like this anymore? Fly june bugs on a string? Make clover flower chains for a necklace? Lay back on the grass and decipher the shapes of clouds?

mia

(8,360 posts)

2. Making clover chains and watching clouds was a favorite pastime.

Reply to Bayard (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 22, 2020, 12:25 AM

Sep 2020

I never heard of flying june bugs on a string. There must be a video for that.

The kids I know now are growing up in the the city with little opportunity to experience what we knew.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

3. I have fond memories of chasing and capturing lightning bugs as an adult when I was