Comments on: BFtP — The Box http://quilldancer.com/2009/06/13/bftp-the-box/ Mon, 07 May 2012 13:43:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Quilly http://quilldancer.com/2009/06/13/bftp-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-57900 Quilly Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:37:47 +0000 http://quilldancer.com/?p=2505#comment-57900 Church Lady -- I don't want to think about trying to fit my behind on a lunch tray -- though if I had put them to use sledding instead of toting food, maybe my behind would still fit ..... Church Lady — I don’t want to think about trying to fit my behind on a lunch tray — though if I had put them to use sledding instead of toting food, maybe my behind would still fit …..

]]> By: Quilly http://quilldancer.com/2009/06/13/bftp-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-57899 Quilly Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:36:22 +0000 http://quilldancer.com/?p=2505#comment-57899 Tony -- that's because you had a real childhood! Tony — that’s because you had a real childhood!

]]> By: Church Lady http://quilldancer.com/2009/06/13/bftp-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-57848 Church Lady Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:13:30 +0000 http://quilldancer.com/?p=2505#comment-57848 Yes, trash bags! I remember using a trash bag to sled on. And lunch trays too, that is when we were small enough to fit our little behinds on them! I don't want to even think about snow right now. Great story. <abbr><em>Church Lady’s last blog post..<a href="http://livinglifeinpa.blogspot.com/2009/06/aloha-30.html" rel="nofollow">Aloha 30</a></abbr></em> Yes, trash bags! I remember using a trash bag to sled on. And lunch trays too, that is when we were small enough to fit our little behinds on them! I don’t want to even think about snow right now. Great story.

Church Lady’s last blog post..Aloha 30

]]> By: Anthony North http://quilldancer.com/2009/06/13/bftp-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-57838 Anthony North Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:30:45 +0000 http://quilldancer.com/?p=2505#comment-57838 I'm loving these posts. They bring back so many great and painful memories. <abbr><em>Anthony North’s last blog post..<a href="http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/ferocious-more/" rel="nofollow">FEROCIOUS & MORE</a></abbr></em> I’m loving these posts. They bring back so many great and painful memories.

Anthony North’s last blog post..FEROCIOUS & MORE

]]> By: Quilly http://quilldancer.com/2009/06/13/bftp-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-57837 Quilly Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:16:42 +0000 http://quilldancer.com/?p=2505#comment-57837 Barbara, I grew up in snow, but I never learned to love it and I was not one of those talented people. It is no accident that I live in sunny climes! Barbara, I grew up in snow, but I never learned to love it and I was not one of those talented people. It is no accident that I live in sunny climes!

]]> By: Quilly http://quilldancer.com/2009/06/13/bftp-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-57836 Quilly Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:15:42 +0000 http://quilldancer.com/?p=2505#comment-57836 We never had soap box racers. THAT would have been so cool! We never had soap box racers. THAT would have been so cool!

]]> By: Barbara H. http://quilldancer.com/2009/06/13/bftp-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-57830 Barbara H. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:42:09 +0000 http://quilldancer.com/?p=2505#comment-57830 Being raised in TX, I had no experience with snow until I was about 13. We were so excited to finally have snow that we raced outside an started o play in it -- and discovered to our amazement that that stuff HURT our gloveless hands. We had never needed gloves before.I was so disappointed that my idyllic notion on snow was marred. I did learn to love it when we moved to SC and actually did have snow occasionally. I was amazed at the talented people in college who had grown up with snow and did amazing snow sculptures. I never knew that was why the front of sleds curled up, so they wouldn't dig into the snow. Makes sense! <abbr><em>Barbara H.’s last blog post..<a href="http://barbarah.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/flag-day-2/" rel="nofollow">Flag Day</a></abbr></em> Being raised in TX, I had no experience with snow until I was about 13. We were so excited to finally have snow that we raced outside an started o play in it — and discovered to our amazement that that stuff HURT our gloveless hands. We had never needed gloves before.I was so disappointed that my idyllic notion on snow was marred. I did learn to love it when we moved to SC and actually did have snow occasionally. I was amazed at the talented people in college who had grown up with snow and did amazing snow sculptures.

I never knew that was why the front of sleds curled up, so they wouldn’t dig into the snow. Makes sense!

Barbara H.’s last blog post..Flag Day

]]> By: Melli http://quilldancer.com/2009/06/13/bftp-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-57827 Melli Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:17:35 +0000 http://quilldancer.com/?p=2505#comment-57827 Fortunately WE had Deale hill ... it was a humongous hill at Deale High School in Washington DC... It ended at a steep embankment that went up to the highway. NO way you were makin' it UP that embankment -- and if ya did you were gonna flip over backwards and come back down anyway. BUT... getting to Deale hill required parental help as in being driven... but we had a couple of streets in the neighborhood that got closed off too -- but they were waaaay back in the neighborhood... so they just ran into other small side streets. Really quite safe -- probably even by TODAY's standards! However... no one closed off streets for our Soap Box racers! And IF they had breaks they were the DELUXE model! Few of us had deluxe models! <abbr><em>Melli’s last blog post..<a href="http://prevailinginsanity.blogspot.com/2009/06/down-home-on-farm.html" rel="nofollow">Summer Stock Sunday ... & Down Home On The Farm!</a></abbr></em> Fortunately WE had Deale hill … it was a humongous hill at Deale High School in Washington DC… It ended at a steep embankment that went up to the highway. NO way you were makin’ it UP that embankment — and if ya did you were gonna flip over backwards and come back down anyway. BUT… getting to Deale hill required parental help as in being driven… but we had a couple of streets in the neighborhood that got closed off too — but they were waaaay back in the neighborhood… so they just ran into other small side streets. Really quite safe — probably even by TODAY’s standards! However… no one closed off streets for our Soap Box racers! And IF they had breaks they were the DELUXE model! Few of us had deluxe models!

Melli’s last blog post..Summer Stock Sunday … & Down Home On The Farm!

]]> By: Quilly http://quilldancer.com/2009/06/13/bftp-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-57826 Quilly Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:35:14 +0000 http://quilldancer.com/?p=2505#comment-57826 I am more than on the mend -- I feel good! Life once again has promise! I am more than on the mend — I feel good! Life once again has promise!

]]> By: Quilly http://quilldancer.com/2009/06/13/bftp-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-57825 Quilly Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:34:33 +0000 http://quilldancer.com/?p=2505#comment-57825 Dr. John, thank you for supporting my point -- the grownups wanted us dead! Dr. John, thank you for supporting my point — the grownups wanted us dead!

]]> By: Quilly http://quilldancer.com/2009/06/13/bftp-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-57824 Quilly Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:33:53 +0000 http://quilldancer.com/?p=2505#comment-57824 Nessa -- that she was. Nessa — that she was.

]]> By: Quilly http://quilldancer.com/2009/06/13/bftp-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-57823 Quilly Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:33:39 +0000 http://quilldancer.com/?p=2505#comment-57823 Thom -- yes, and sometimes where we went, wasn't always the safest place to go! Thom — yes, and sometimes where we went, wasn’t always the safest place to go!

]]> By: Thumbelina http://quilldancer.com/2009/06/13/bftp-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-57818 Thumbelina Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:12:20 +0000 http://quilldancer.com/?p=2505#comment-57818 Hiya Quilly. I finally crawled out from under the Algarve rock and got back on the blog. I love the stories you tell and I feel the pain, smell the smells.... unfortunately. My eye just caught the title of the post below - I'll go catch up a bit. But if you have been sick as it seems you have, please know I wish you well and hope you are on the mend. xoxox <abbr><em>Thumbelina’s last blog post..<a href="http://bedlam1.blogspot.com/2009/06/it-was-faaaaaaabulous-dahling.html" rel="nofollow">It was faaaaaaabulous dahling</a></abbr></em> Hiya Quilly.
I finally crawled out from under the Algarve rock and got back on the blog. I love the stories you tell and I feel the pain, smell the smells…. unfortunately.

My eye just caught the title of the post below – I’ll go catch up a bit. But if you have been sick as it seems you have, please know I wish you well and hope you are on the mend. xoxox

Thumbelina’s last blog post..It was faaaaaaabulous dahling

]]> By: Dr. John http://quilldancer.com/2009/06/13/bftp-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-57817 Dr. John Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:04:28 +0000 http://quilldancer.com/?p=2505#comment-57817 After all it was an adult that invented those aluminum saucers that you couldn't control either. <abbr><em>Dr. John’s last blog post..<a href="http://fortresslinna.blogspot.com/2009/06/nd-sunday-after-pentecost.html" rel="nofollow">@nd Sunday After Pentecost</a></abbr></em> After all it was an adult that invented those aluminum saucers that you couldn’t control either.

Dr. John’s last blog post..@nd Sunday After Pentecost

]]> By: Nessa http://quilldancer.com/2009/06/13/bftp-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-57815 Nessa Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:58:22 +0000 http://quilldancer.com/?p=2505#comment-57815 Gram sounds like a terrific grandmother, full of the important things in life. <abbr><em>Nessa’s last blog post..<a href="http://vanessavkilmer.com/2009/06/13/over-and-well-done/" rel="nofollow">Over and Well Done</a></abbr></em> Gram sounds like a terrific grandmother, full of the important things in life.

Nessa’s last blog post..Over and Well Done

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