When Grandma Was A Little Girl-#10

Story #10 - Hide and Seek on Starry Nights

I grew up in a little town called Tularosa in southern New Mexico. Tularosa means City of Roses. The population of that town was just under 4,000! It was not too far a drive to go into the foothills or the mountains. The mountains got the rain and we got the ‘dust!’ We would joke and say we got a 12-in rain today! The drops were 12-inches apart! Ha! Ha! Ha! But at night when you looked up at the stars they were so beautiful. It was like you could reach up and pick them out of the sky! My bothers and I would lie down on the grass and look up at the sky. It was very common to see shooting stars. The Milky Way was so bright and so beautiful! The sunsets were just as gorgeous. The sun would make the sky turn the wispy clouds orange!

One of our favorite past times at night was to play ‘Hide and Seek.’ We had a low wall and trees and shrubs to hide behind. I always hated being ‘it’ because I had such a hard time finding my brothers and any friends we had over. We had a neat porch with pillars. Usually the porch post was ‘home base.’ I hated to wander too far from the porch because they could outrun me and usually tag ‘home.’ Then I would be stuck being ‘it’ all over again. But the times I wasn’t ‘it’ I had fun hiding and not being found and making it to ‘home’. Another game we like to play was Red Rover. We played a lot of games to entertain ourselves.