What Kept Us Kids Off the Streets

Making a Horta by crawling around on the floor under a blanket (usually Ed did this, but I remember doing it too) and then "consuming" whatever dog happened to wander by.  

I remember "making ice cream" by turning a bike upside down turning the pedals by hand, and (I think) throwing wads of grass and clumps of dirt into the spokes of the wheel.  

This also brings up a memory of a great book we had with recipes for mud pies, grass soup, etc. Does anyone else remember it?  

I remember in the backyard at our house some, but more often in the back yard at Sharon Pirtle's house (who lived across the street in Houston), Jane and Sharon and I made "mudpies" and various concoctions, usually "food" items, and served them to each other on old plates that Sharon's parents had back there for working with plants and stuff. My most remarkable creation was actually a lobster made out of mud on a plate. It was so cool I didn't want to get rid of it. I think today (if it was still around) it would be classified as "folk art."  

Ghost in the Graveyard!!!  

Jane and I used to play Charlie's Angels with Sharon. I was Chris (the Cheryl Ladd character), Jane was Kelly (the Jacklyn Smith character), and Sharon was Sam (the Kate Jackson character). I don't remember many of the scenarios we played out, but usually they involved going undercover to find a killer who was picking off beautiful girls in a beauty pageant/fashion show/roller derby (sometimes we played on roller skates), and usually there was something threatening scrawled in lipstick across a mirror at some point during the story.