Croquet, anyone?

This morning, while surfing the internet for 

outdoor furniture, I come across this:

An old fashioned Croquet set.

The memories came flooding back and now

I must have a set for the new home.

I always wanted to get a good set for my babies

while they were growing up and there were a few

Christmas' that it actually made it to the list

but never to the purchase point.

This morning many childhood memories came

flooding back from our own Croquet games on

Dursette Lane in Golden Meadow.

C had gotten the set from I think Veronica,

who is her nannie. I don't remember if it was 

Christmas or her birthday and I don't think

it was in "fashion" that such year as the Collins

family never had enough cash to follow fashion.

I don't remember any of the other kids we played with

having a set. Us younger Collins'

had a cement hole in our back yard that we called

our swimming pool and we had a Croquet set.

And we didn't only just have it, we played it.

We played it often and we played it correctly.

I don't remember how many years it was popular being

set up in the front yard but I remember the stand

just like the one in the picture and I remember

our metal mouse holes were pretty bent up and

our balls had a few cracks in them when we finally

picked them up for good.

I can still remember the set up of the game and the hole idea

and I remember many, many hours and days of playing

that said game.

Now, I want a set. I want Bean to know the game of 

Croquet and I want us to take it out at get-togethers

and play a good game of Croquet here on

Village Drive.