I spent a lot of time outside. Playing with the twins next door, badminton, I love the smell of sunshine on my skin, we went to nearby lake and beaches in the summer-Wauconda beach, Crystal Lake, smells of suntan lotion, stink of mosquito spray from the truck that fogged out neighborhoods each summer twice a week... What on earth did we inhale back then? I remember liking my arm to taste it-horrible! Probably poison for me. Getting a tomato out of the garden, eating it (never thought of washing it off) and then coming in side to ask my dad for some salt (he tells the story, not in my personal memory bank) I asked him for some salt. He asked me what for. I said because I just ate a tomato.
Long hedges of pink peonies, smelling so fabulous and full of ants (I discovered when I brought some in for mom and put them in a vase on the kitchen table0 and lilacs-large vases full of fragrance and more ants. Lightening bugs.
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