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Hey, Rick, that sounds like the old joke/truism that on Christmas morning, the living room will be filled with the latest & greatest toys for the children of the family. And what will the children be playing with? The big boxes that all those toys came in!
My brother and I still remember the fun we had when Mom & Dad bought a new fridge, and let us play with the box. We set it up in the guest room, and turned it into a house/spaceship. Finally, after about 3 weeks, we’d killed it, so it went out with the trash. But those 3 weeks were some of the best we ever had!
But the absolute best time was the Saturday afternoon when there was a storm and a blackout, and when it was over, we all walked down the path behind the house, through the fields to the little creek which was usually a trickle, but after that storm was about a foot & a half deep. Splashing around, under the weeping willow tree, with the lovely post-storm smell of ozone in the air, and watching the sun set, was absolute paradise, and it didn’t cost a cent. Today, the whole area is one big subdivision. Joni Mitchell was right. You really don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.
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