Your sweetest summertime memory

This afternoon when my sister and I were sitting on the back porch and looking at the yard through sweltering heat waves (my family lives in Texas), we began reminiscing about our best childhood memories.

Mine was of being about 10 years old and out of school for the summer. Being at my grandmother's house in small-town central Texas. Spending all day long playing and swimming and running wild with my sisters and cousins, who were the best and most creative playmates in the world. We played from sunup to sundown, and when it got to be almost dark my grandmother would gather us all up at a picnic table in her backyard and slice into an icy cold watermelon and let us eat that (and spit seeds at each other and make faces wearing huge watermelon rind teeth). Then she and our parents or aunts would spray us down with a garden hose to take care of sticky hands, and we'd play our final game of the night, which was catching fireflies.

Anyone else have sweet summertime memories?

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Originally Posted by birdgirl73

This afternoon when my sister and I were sitting on the back porch and looking at the yard through sweltering heat waves (my family lives in Texas), we began reminiscing about our best childhood memories.

Mine was of being about 10 years old and out of school for the summer. Being at my grandmother's house in small-town central Texas. Spending all day long playing and swimming and running wild with my sisters and cousins, who were the best and most creative playmates in the world. We played from sunup to sundown, and when it got to be almost dark my grandmother would gather us all up at a picnic table in her backyard and slice into an icy cold watermelon and let us eat that (and spit seeds at each other and make faces wearing huge watermelon rind teeth). Then she and our parents or aunts would spray us down with a garden hose to take care of sticky hands, and we'd play our final game of the night, which was catching fireflies.

Anyone else have sweet summertime memories?

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hangining out with the female water polo players in the pool when I was a water polo player in high school.


boiiiiiing!!!!

SCHWIIIIIIINGGGGGG!!!!!!

I got serious CHEVY!

"like a ROCK, I was standing arrow straight"

When I was 13 I spent the summer at my cousins an lost my virginity! That was the best summer ever! I haven't had that much sex in one summer since.

nasty....did you lose your virginity to your cousin? pervert.

Best summer ever has to be the summer Stewart and I worked in Eddy's Restaurant down in Llangennith. 'Gennith is pretty popular amongst surfers, and it's got a camping ground and caravan park as well as the restaurant. The assistant chef was also a dealer and so we spent the summer working the day in Eddy's, chilling out in the camping ground with friends, then going home and smoking in the barn/garage.

Mum never kept her car in the garage (converted from an old barn, so it was easily big enough for three cars), so we put boxes all round the bottom of the garage door to keep draughts out. She also kept a long wooden bench in there anyway, and we brought in two garden chairs and an old stool for a table.

Despite the fact that the barn itself was ancient the roof had all it's tiles intact, so rain couldn't get in. We put old sofa cushions on the garden chairs, and threw towels over the backs. We had a really big old saucepan which was missing a handle, and dug a shallow hole in the dirt floor and sunk the saucepan into it part way, and used it to hold a fire every night - my mum has a log burning stove, so there was no shortage of wood to use. We also bought loads of pillar candles and set them up round the place for more light. We just used to play stupid kids games like I-spy and charades, and it was actually pretty cool - we entertained ourselves every night without TV, DVDs, music or the computer and had a fucking amazing summer. That's my best summer ever.

Too many. But you people have some nice stories.

I cant remember, my good life's been blocked by a glob of shit for so long I cant even see in the past these bad times to find a good memory. Thats why I started smoking in the first place and it has helped me quite a bit.

Okay, the second time around, I can pick one. The field, underneath the powerlines, cut out through a forest, where I had sex with my girlfriend from high school.

Also, that time I got tendinitis when I was swinging a tire-checker bat in this new-age "speed ball" game I/We made up, with a tennis ball.

In reply to Orangeman: Yeah Man I know where you are coming from with that one. Sometimes when I am being negative I'm like that. Try to stay positive though, bad times are what make you stronger and often make you a better person.
A favourite summertime memory is me and my sister gettin a picnic from my mum and going for little walks and watching the steam trains. that used to run near our house as there was a historic railway line near us. I was 10 when I realised that steam trains were not the only trains.

suzie.....................she would come down and live with her father during summer break. suzie..............love lost

Too many to list at one, but one of my fav times of the year was the 4th of july. The entire town came out to the fair grounds. You could walk around and meet up with your friends you haven't seen since school let out and catch up on things and get into mischief. Gotta love being a kid in summer. Now it doesn't mean much of shit. Especially since it's been hot enough for the beach since like Feb and I work 5 days a week.

when i was 15 my friends family invited me camping
i had never really done stuff like that
i didnt want to go at first.but they kept bugging
we drove for six or seven hours i was pissed off
then we reached our destination YOSEMITE VALLEY/HOUSEKEEPING CAMP
oh shit, my ghetto ass was stunned.love at first sight
besides being the most beautiful spot ive ever seen i met a girl
she was gorgeous and we clicked right away
we walked to all the waterfalls and cool spots and just talked and macked
i felt ready to die at 15.then her brothers seen us and we ended up fighting
i whooped her brother and she got hurt and then we went back to la
and i never seen that hyna again.but i remember her kisses

was only near the end of summer, but ti's the closest i got....

going out everyday, mowing yards with my brother, calling it quits at 3 or 4, picking up an oz and a fwe other things, living in the apartment out back and partying all night.. waking up and repeating.... for months straight basicly.. some of the funnest times in my life were in that apartment...

oh hell yeah, i love summer. some of my best memories include the summer between my junior and senior year of highschool. i had a good job, my own car and a girlfriend that i was crazy about. we would spend all of our time together swimming in the river or going to the drive in....good times.

another is a a few years ago i was living in the town i went to college in those were great summers. working, drinking and barbecuing. going kayaking and going the beach on lake erie. good times.

The summers when I was a kid- we would meet up with my cousins and grandparents and rent a cottage on Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondacks for a month.

There were 4 of us all within 3 years of each other and our parents trusted us with boats from a really young age... between our 2 families we brought the most motley collection of watercraft to the lake... a sunfish, couple canoes, a hobie cat, my cousin's tinky little 6 foot sailing dinghy, and a beat up grumman with a 9 horse outboard... all our parents cared was that we came home for lunch and a headcount, lol... you haven't seen anything until you have seen a kid waterskiing behind a hobie cat (thats a 16 foot sailing catamaran, fast as shit) that is heeled over on one hull, with a skinny 12 year old at the helm...

I miss those days. Life has such a way of catching up to you, doesn't it?

it seems like summer just brings out the horniness in everyone I have a great hookup story for everyone of them

best summer memory, well theres alot, but my favorite was gettin rlly rlly drunk 1 night, ended up fallin asleep on a bench while my 2 friends were sitting on a bench next to me so i felt safe enough to fall asleeep,then i woke up at 5 in the mornin, with my gf sitting next to me and she handed me a spliff and 5g and told me she loved me, well it was probably the best hangover mornin ever :)

ahhhh... flashback

probably the last year i went to summer camp. i was 13 and i came so very close to losing my virginity with a girl there. we both snuck out and met at about 3 a.m. i got a fire goin, and made it to third base, when a counselor who walked off to take a leak found us. i was sooooo pissed off. i havent seen the girl since that summer. best summer memory ive got.