Did we ever live at the lake? I remember the first summer it seemed we would just walk down to the lake in the morning. Dad would do a little fly frogging for our morning frog legs and eggs these are the first memories of CT , lake peacoat or whatever. Was the lake a navy camp sight it sure seemed to be ours and ours alone hardly anyone around ,and what ever happened to that sweet little boat? It looks like it was about a 12'Lound . Did anyone else go on dad's late night nite crawler hunts before the fishing trips. How about the crawdads that was fun. The snakes, the turtles, the salamanders, the lighting bugs, the bloodworms, the minows, the sea horses, the lobsters, the jelly fish, the blue crabs(caught with chickin necks)the snappers, the fishing trips, the rock wall, the lawn, my own room,t he dungeon where Robert slept with the worm farm and had all kinds of neat stuff to sodder, the den (the dungeon after dad fixed it up)the ping pong, that huge snapping turtle and the Unbridled Freedom to go go go and see the world thanks dad for those Connecticut summers they were the best days of my childhood. Adem
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Are you talking about the house right after Dad & mom got married? It seems I remember some kind of body of water being very close by. I was too young to remember much else. Most of my memories of that house are of my Wonder Woman Underoos and this really nice older lady that lived across the street.
Yes DANA!!
I remember you being Wonder Woman and the lady across the street was named Claire. She babysat and always bought the most crappy crap kid heaven food you can imagine. The body of water closest to us then was the Atlantic Ocean a few blocks away. THe body of water Adem is referring to is Lake Pequot, named after the Indian tribe. The lake we went to with y'all would have been man made lake on the base or one we called Blueberry lake. remember Dad chugging the buttermilk? that always made me squeamish too.
FIRST lets set the record straight... if you're in a fix and you need to solve a problem at hand without consulting the manual or having the required tools... Adem is the man, I'm an academic for goodness sake! Adem is by pedigree and real world training - the true MacGyver. I got the riddle on a technicality.
As for the Lake and summer fun in general... Oh Yeah. Lake / Camp Pequot was fantastic and we did stay there at least one summer.. Dad had one of the military cabins out there and he hired some woman with kids to be our babysitter in the day time when he was at work. Oddly enough I remembered one of her daughters confided in me that she was bald - and that she wore a wig. It didn't really register then but she must have had leukimia (spelling?).
Do you remember Dad told us that the troll from the billy goat gruff lived under one of the foot bridges? Do you remember the old bike with fat tires and fenders that rattled that I got and then painted flourescent Orange? Oh good times... and all that bass fishing Dad loved it. He loved the night crawlers and the torpedo lure with the little propellers that churned as you trolled behind that lovely little boat. I think he must have loved those times as much as we did.
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