My Dash: Week 9

As I mentioned last week, there was a park 2 streets down from us and it backed up to woods and fields.  I just checked it on google earth and there are no fields behind it now.  The land has been developed. That park was a central place for us as kids. We went to the "Park Program" there every summer and made crafts or played games. That's where I learned to make boondoggle bracelets and that is where we found out (from older kids) about walking down the creek to "Baby Niagara". It evolved a lot over the years, but we went to the park regularly, even when I was a senior in high school. We also used it as a way of crossing to the Dairy Barn without having to go along the main road.  We were convinced that the Dairy Barn had the best ice cream (soft) in the world.  AND it was the most ice cream for your money. We would look for loose change in the couch and on the shelf by the washing machine to try to scrounge up the 50 cents needed for a small cone. To us it was huge.  Prices went up over the years and it has changed ownership many times.  It's a great place, but I imagine it would be hard to make money on a little country road. We always try to visit it when we are in town.