OK this is some what a topic to go with what was your first job deal or of sorts
but what are some things you did as kid or as older, that just don't seem to happen any more
I know when I was a kid and till maybe mid 2000's
was I used to pick a LOT of wild blue berries, black berries, chestnuts, as seasons allowed
I can recall some summers picking a few hundred lbs of Blue berries and selling them a a kid, used to fill, there or four 5 gallon buckets every day
LONG days in the sun, letting skeeters eat, and can honestly say, even back then, I had a LOT of encounters with black bears doing the same
I can recall picking berries off bushes me on one side and a bear on the other HAHA!
late 80's chestnut tree's here took a big hit and we lost almost all of them, in the wilds
so that ended that
then about the late 90's
with so few forest fires anymore or since, it seems all the blue berry black berry, bushes all got too mature, no real new growth happening due to too much matter on the ground
and that sort of ended the large amounts of them growing wild here!
forest fires were natures way of making new things grow and feeding existing things ! they did a LOT of good, that just doesn't happen Lillie it used to !
these days, its extremely hard to find wild berries here anymore, picking a few quarts is a challenge anymore! if even possible at all!
and to be honest I miss them older times when tings were abundant, nothing much better than fresh picked berries in season if you ask me!
I don't even think many kids today even know what wild berries and nuts are anymore! and what a shame! that is!
SO< anyone else as a kid or?? had any other hobbies maybe that netted some cash Flow for you?
but what are some things you did as kid or as older, that just don't seem to happen any more
I know when I was a kid and till maybe mid 2000's
was I used to pick a LOT of wild blue berries, black berries, chestnuts, as seasons allowed
I can recall some summers picking a few hundred lbs of Blue berries and selling them a a kid, used to fill, there or four 5 gallon buckets every day
LONG days in the sun, letting skeeters eat, and can honestly say, even back then, I had a LOT of encounters with black bears doing the same
I can recall picking berries off bushes me on one side and a bear on the other HAHA!
late 80's chestnut tree's here took a big hit and we lost almost all of them, in the wilds
so that ended that
then about the late 90's
with so few forest fires anymore or since, it seems all the blue berry black berry, bushes all got too mature, no real new growth happening due to too much matter on the ground
and that sort of ended the large amounts of them growing wild here!
forest fires were natures way of making new things grow and feeding existing things ! they did a LOT of good, that just doesn't happen Lillie it used to !
these days, its extremely hard to find wild berries here anymore, picking a few quarts is a challenge anymore! if even possible at all!
and to be honest I miss them older times when tings were abundant, nothing much better than fresh picked berries in season if you ask me!
I don't even think many kids today even know what wild berries and nuts are anymore! and what a shame! that is!
SO< anyone else as a kid or?? had any other hobbies maybe that netted some cash Flow for you?