Earliest memories

[pdub]

Nowadays there's only one doll for me.

[ousdahl]

Now this....this is a weird thread.

For real.

My second earliest memory is when this thread was innocently enough about a toddler laughing in an orchard

[pdub]

Now this....this is a weird thread.

That's not an early memory.
Unless you're like the dude in Memento.

[ousdahl]

Nowadays there's only one doll for me.

[pdub]

Box says this side up.

[ousdahl]

I’m just glad you didn’t ban me for posting her real life name.

[twocoach]

Once my son was at an apple orchard and he tripped over a bunch of apples and was just sitting there laughing and that's when I knew it was time to hit the road.

Once we lived on and were caretakers for some property that had been donated to Johns Hopkins University. It was an old farmhouse that has now been turned into an event location: http://www.swanharborfarm.org/

The nearly mile long driveway was lined with apple trees and in the fall, deer would wander the stretch pigging out on apples. I took my dog in the car with me to go get the mail at the mailbox and while slowly rolling down the drive with the windows open to check out the deer, he jumped out the window to chase a deer and blew out his knee ligaments and broke some ribs.

[ousdahl]

Did you guys know that Phish’s “Farmhouse” is the same chord changes to Bob Marley’s “no woman no cry?”

This thread bringing up all sorts of memories.

[pdub]

Once at Howl at the Moon at PNL a couple buddies and I put down 100 bucks for the pianos/band to play the entire Dark Side, no interruptions.

[twocoach]

My grandpa took me to an apple orchard. Must’ve been fall, cuz there were apples all over the ground that toddler me kept tripping and falling over, but I thought it was hilarious.

Yours?

I remember talking my parents into buying me some Flintstones Colorforms at our neighbors garage sale. I was probably three. That's one of the few memories of that house I have at all. I don't think I could actually describe our own house but I remember that garage sale.

Ha, found them. Too funny. Haven't thought about that in ages. http://www.collecttoys.net/Colorforms/flintstones.php

[ousdahl]

Whoa, Flintstones.


dunno if anyone can top a memory earlier than the Stone Age.

[pdub]

I dunno.
Your mom lived in a sorority house we nicknamed Jurassic Park.

[ousdahl]

I remember seeing Jurassic Park in theaters like 8 years old, walking out and saying, “dad, they don’t need to make any more movies, cuz that is without a doubt the greatest movie ever.”

Then I asked if we could go back to the theater and see it again the next day.

That might count as an early memory, except that I still feel the same way today.

[ousdahl]

Ousdahl’s autobiography:

Apples
Raptors
.com
.net
.kcrim

Man, what an incredible life.

[pdub]

Jimmy Stewart woulda seen your life and just jumped off the bridge.

[pdub]

I went to see Jurassic Park and there was a kid with us who lost his shit when the goat leg hit the window.

He cried and cried and had to be escorted out of the theater.
Then my son asked if we could go back to see it the next day and I said, "you know we can't, my day is every other Wednesday."

[ousdahl]

I’m just glad you finally came and got me outta the orchard.

[ousdahl]

I remember after Jurassic Park, I told my dad I wanted to be a carnivore from now on, just like the cool dinos.

I ate nothing but meat for like 3 meals, got a stomachache, and went back to apples.

[pdub]

"just like the cool dinos"

Brachiosaurus burn.

[ousdahl]

Yeah, the only cool thing they did was sneeze on that annoying veggie chick.