Memory Lane (revised)

During my childhood summer days I would spend every waking moment with my dear friend Lee. He was the old man who lived just down the street from me that would know matter what take time out of his day to watch over so and me me the ropes. As I grew up, he was a person I really looked up too. Each morning I would wake up around 6 am, get dressed and run down the street to his house. By the time I got there he would have most of the things out that we would be using for the day. The first thing we would do is get tiller to the field. Where I can remember riding on the front for hours during the mornings. As I got older and taller, then it was I working the ground. Being able to do someone of the hard work, myself seem to make it just a little bit more enjoyable. After we would work the ground, we would begin to make our rows. Using hand tools and shovels we'd work till all the rows were nice and neat. By this time it was either noon or a little past and time to head back to the house for some lunch. His wife always had a good home cooked meal on the table waiting for us. After we would finish the meal we would help clean up, and then it was time to head back to the Fields. We would then start with the long process of seeding the ground. We also did this by hand. A few seeds at a time we would plant for the rest of the day.  As we were just about finished for the day his wife would always bring us something cold to drink. The hot sun beating down on us all day would surely always take its toll on us. Now that all the work was completed, it was always time to relax and have a bit of fun. There was always something to do after the work was done. Some days we would go out into the woods and do a little rabbit hunting. That was always fun. I remember when I shot my first rabbit. I still have its foot in a box. Other days we would go fishing, which was never good, because I could never catch anything, still to this day I do not catch anything when I fish. One other thing we would do is take the boat out on the river and just float for the rest of the day. Those were some of the best days.