After getting a load of gravel in for the driveway and around the front of the house, I got to remembering(asI often do). I've told Miranda about when Mike and I were kids and how Mom always had a project on the go(usually landscaping-or flood control).
Mike and I had a choice, when school was out for the summer. We could work everyday for three hours-for twenty-five cents an hour...or(wait for it...)OR we could work everyday for three hours for free. It was our choice.
Our friends knew that if they were foolish enough to drop by, they too would be enlisted or maybe conscripted is a better word.
I remember on more than one occasion one of our friends would sneak up the driveway ninja style too peek and see if it was safe to enter the yard.
I bought my first boat with money I earned in Mrs. Brown's top-soil pits. It was an inflatable and cost forty-two dollars and came from, you guessed it, Canadian tire. Mike if you read this do you remember the old EM-GEE 4 ?
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Hey - you got paid? Times sure did change for you younger sibs. I don't remember getting paid for babysitting and helping with laundry and such!
paid yes, but i think the entire summer , paid us about $10. , but there was very valuable lessions learned
mike
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