Do you remember? Yeah, I do..

Cindy wrote this cute little blog titled, "Do you Remember?" I laughed my butt off. When I was reminded of her Uncles terrible behavior, I laughed and wished I could have been the person I am now, back then. I would have given them hell. I was just way too nice back then. Anyway, here is what I remember...

• *Sleepovers at Grandma and Grandpa Kaster's with all the older cousins. We would stay up laughing and talking and Grandma would yell at us to go to sleep.
• *Going to Grandma's and watching Willie Wonka on HBO with Mike like a million times that summer.
• *When Tisha was little and dropped a can of Dr Pepper in Grandma Kasters kitchen, then handing her the can to open for her. The soda hit the ceiling...it was crazy.
• *Holding cousin Jeff down and putting make-up on him
• *The cousins eating jars of dill pickles at Grandma and Grandpa..and sometimes following it up with Ice Cream.
• *Grandma's laundry pile being about as bad as Cousin Cindy's is now...the difference was that Grandma had 6 people living in the house at that time...Cindy has two...lol.
• *My Pop trying to start a new lawn mower...refusing to believe me that you had to hold a lever down to start it...even though it was written on a label on the handle bar...he swore it was a faulty mower.
• *Christmas when Grandma had to yell at the Uncles because they were playing with their nieces and nephews toys and wouldn't give us our turn.
• *The shaving cream fight I sort of accidentally started in Grandma's kitchen. How do things snowball so fast at our family get togethers?
• *Trying to sit under the table while the adults played cards on holidays
• *Grandpa tricking me into helping him dig potatoes
• *Raiding grandma's Strawberry batch
• *Grandpa putting red fingernail polish onthe claws of Grandma's white cat one Halloween...he also put red lipstick around its mouth like it had real lips....Grandma wasn't happy....I thought it was great.
• *Cousins yelling, "OH NO, Allen is coming!" Then watching them try to hide. My Pop used to pick on everyone. I just said, You don't have to live with him...ignore him, he goes away.
• *Our Uncles...Especially my Pop, holding you so couldn't move at all, then refusing to let you go until you said the magic phrase. "Uncle Peanut Butter, please let me go." You had to say it in a nice calm, sweet manner and could not be struggling when you said it, otherwise they would make you say it over and over again until you said it in a nice manner. This is the reason my Father is called "Uncle Peanut Butter" instead of Uncle Allen. Cousin Jeremy started that and everyone started to follow suit. Kelsie now calls my Mother "Aunt Jelly." They go together.
• *Uncle Jim's 4th of July party where My Pop and our Uncles built a homemade cannon using M-80's a steel pipe and a piece of a small tree that they cut down and formed into a BIG bullet. You know, when they shot that sucker off...straight up in the air...it when so high you couldn't see it. Mom had made us go in the house...but seriously, those guys were like big kids.
• *Our Uncles lighting off fire works and throwing pop bottle rockets. One went nutty and hit my Mother in the arm, burning her. Talk about pissed off. The guys high tailed it out of there fast. She still doesn't trust those idiots with fireworks.
• *When a tiny firecracker when off in Mikes hand and he ran in the house yelling, "I'm paralyzed, I'm paralyzed!" then hid behind the recliner.
• *When Billy was really little and stripped naked in Grandma's little baby pool in the front yard.
• *Grandpa and Uncle Jim putting a "Honk if you are horny" bumper sticker on Aunt Vickies car. They laughed their butts off as she pulled out of the driveway and headed home. I got blamed for it...and they knew I would, I think that was why they were laughing so hard.
• *Grandma sending us to Parrish's grocery for stuff and then letting us pick out candy as a reward. We went there a lot.
• *Visiting Grandpa at Campbell Soup when he worked on a Sunday and we brought him his dinner. They would tease us and lock the freezer door after we entered during our little tour of the plant. We were not in there very long but it sure freaked me out. Especially when Dad was carrying me and I was in shorts with no shoes on.
• *being tickled until you were sure you would die or pee your pants.
• *Dad and Uncle Randy remodeling our bathroom. Dad pulled the sink off the wall without shutting the water off first because, being a plumber, he knew you should be able to do that. There should have been a little give in the pipes. I guess they didn't want to spend the extra money for an extra inch of give....the water was shooting straight up hitting the ceiling and Dad yelled for Randy to cover up the pipes while he shut off the water. There was dry wall piled on the basement door...and Randy couldn't hold his hands over those pipes long. The hot water got a little too hot...lol, Man, the race was on that day. lol
• *I helped Tisha climb a tree and then refused to help her down. I had to take a picture of her crying up in that tree first. I think I have that picture somewhere...man that was mean.
• *We went fishing a lot...I mean A LOT...we'd sucker our Uncles or Dad into baiting the hooks for us. Once at the river, the adults set us up with a good spot and they disappeared up the river for a while. Mike caught a catfish that swallowed his hook and we couldn't get it out. Mike took a rock and started chopping up that catfish to get his hook out so he could keep fishing. It was so gross...and I remember being shocked that he had the nerve to do that.
• *I seem to remember Mike doing a lot of funny stuff. He was always our comedy relief, I guess. I still love watching him lipsync "She's like the Wind" shirtless, to Tom, his pal who was wearing my Mothers old prom dress at the time. It was a holiday and we had promised not to show everyone the footage we shot. That lasted a whole half hour. lol
• *I once told my little sister that her boobs were going to curve under her arms and that she would have to walk with her arms sticking out to her sides.....she started to cry and asked Mom if it was true. I got in a little trouble...but I also told her she was adopted....aw, good times.
• *Sliding down the stairs on your butt.....it was a lot of fun until you started to go to fast or picked up a splinter.
• *The now famous SPOONS card game that got a little out of hand. At one point one of the spoons went flying to the floor and people were diving for it....it was wrestle mania....and that was the end of the fun, the Aunts and Grandma put an end to that fast.
• *County Fairs and Randy winning me stuffed animals. He was a great Uncle.
• **My Pop actually read directions once! I heard him talking about how he wanted to hurry and read the instructions to installing an air conditioner before I woke up from the little nap I was taking on the sofa...too late, I heard the whole conversation.
• **My Mom's truely Polish moment with the porch door....ah, it brings tears to my eyes, just the sheer memory of that moment...lol.
• **Skeeter putting a soaking wet, cold, wash cloth in my sneaker and running out the door, laughing. I knew that girl was up to something, she usually is.
• **Dad scaring Danielle ( his great neice, yeah, he has started on a new generation) so badly that she bolted and ran head first into a propane grill.
• **Playing hide and seek with the cousins...whenever Jesse hid Shannon, we could never find her. Once she was curled up in Uncle Garys suitcase that was laying on the floor.
• **When Uncle Randy won the trip to Disney and brought me back a Mickey Mouse pillow.
• **When Mom was at work and there was an ice storm so school was cancelled...Grandma made Grandpa pick us up and bring up to their house. Right after he turned on to their street off of Clay street, the car which was barley moning did a 360 degree spin. It was so funny.
• **Raking Great Grandpa Lade's yard and afterward being stuffed with cookies and soda pop. He smoked his pipe while we discussed the last episode of the Dukes of Hazard...his favorite TV show.
• ** More to come...check back again.