Sat in a field by myself at dusk in a country town in West Virginia catching those lightening bugs in a jar with a lid that had holes poked in it for air. Captured enough to try to light up a room. Took them home tried to light the room but the lightening bugs weren't cooperating. My grandmother made me release them back to nature. Took my evening bath with the good old clean smelling ivory soap went to bed then prepared to repeat the next day. Was a fascinating time. I've never forgotten it.

AAAAHH! I REMEMBER THOSE EXACT THINGS! WARM FEELINGS! THANKS FOR SHARING! IM REALLY MISS THE SIMPLE TIMES

this was my life, we lived in the country. i was so lucky. my son had a bit of it, but it was getting more dangerous. now i won't let my grandson in the back yard alone. we HAVE to get back to those days...

AAAAHH! I REMEMBER THOSE EXACT THINGS! WARM FEELINGS! THANKS FOR SHARING! IM REALLY MISS THE SIMPLE TIMES

Did you, or your son ever run into one of them invisible until you hit it electric fences in the woods.
I lived on a ranch for a little whiie that had cows and horses. The perimeter had the fences hidden in the woods at property lines.
You could not see them things, and they got me everytime until I learned their locations.

what times they were!

Don't forget riding in the bed of a pickup truck from field to field to buck bails or to the barnyard to cut and ring pigs.