52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History: Sounds

Week 9: Sounds. Describe any sounds that take you back to your childhood. These could be familiar songs, jingles, children playing, or something entirely different.

This challenge runs from Saturday, February 26, 2011 through Friday, March 4, 2011.

The sounds of my childhood…..

  1. The “Sesame Street” theme song
  2. Frogs croaking in the nearby swamp in the evenings
  3. The wheels of my brothers’ Big Wheels turning on the dirt road
  4. Our many dogs barking when anyone passed by our home
  5. The tick-tock of my Papa’s clock collection.  His apartment was alive with music when the hour struck.
  6. My Grandpa Ed playing the harmonica for us kids
  7. The buzzing of my parents’ many saws and tools
  8. My Grandma Donna singing “The Three Little Fishies” by Kay Kyser to us kids.  “and he swam and he swam right over the dam!”
  9. The sound of the angry geese hissing at me in our backyard.  I was stuck on my swingset a number of times because I was so frightened of their hissing.
  10. 80’s music blasting from my stereo.
  11. My little brothers playing with GI Joes and matchbox cars and Legos – and all of the needed sound effects that went along with their play.
  12. Fire crackling in our wood stove.
  13. The drizzle of the Washington rain.
  14. “La, la, la, la, la, la”.  Yes, I watched “Smurfs”.  I may have even owned a Smurf lunchbox at one point in time.
  15. The woodpeckers making holes in the forest behind our home.
  16. The seagulls talking to one another down by the beach.

52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History by Amy Coffin is a series of weekly blogging prompts (one for each week of 2011) that invite genealogists and others to record memories and insights about their own lives for future descendants. You do not have to be a blogger to participate. If you do not have a genealogy blog, write down your memories on your computer, or simply record them on paper and keep them with your files.

My previous posts in this series:
New Year’s Memories
Winter Memories
Cars
Home
Technology

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