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Memories

I was six or maybe seven.  Our school was out for the summer.  What was one of the first things my brother and sister and I did?   Was it sit in front of the television and watch or favorite tv programs the rest of the day?  Or maybe we ran to a friends house to play.  No, we did neither of those.   My brother and sister were now old enough to go pick strawberries.  We lived in “the boonies” as I affectionately call them.  Our nearest neighbors were about a quarter of a mile away.  We had open fields ripe with strawberries.  So we all went out with containers to pick those plump, succulent red morsels of goodness.  As I recall, we didn’t bring many berries home.  Maybe enough for a pie, but we sure ate enough of that ripe, red fruit.  In fact, it became a tradition.  We did it every summer for many other years.   Today, I was looking at pictures I wanted to save and back up.  I had to smile at some of t...