More Summer Memories

                                              Summer time for me as a kid was spent listening to the radio most of the time. Families we hadn't seen for a longtime would come visit us, we would go to either "Cedar Point or Kings Island" Theme parks when dad was on vacation.  Bailing hay in July, helping grandpa out, watching old home movies on the side of the barn on the 4th of July with grandpa running the projector.  That day wouldn't be complete without sharing a watermelon.  My grandpa always could pick them.  My sister has that knack too
                                             In those days, my Grandpa Havens had three vehicles that stick out in my mind.  Where as my dad is a Ford Person, my Grandpa Havens was a Chevy man.  My dad and grandfather always kidded each other , anyway.  My grandpa had a Chevy Malibu, Little Luv Truck and an old 1972 Chevy pick-up truck with a cup on the back which he pulled his 1976 Star Craft 21 foot boat.
                                           To complete his old '72' truck, he replaced the large steering wheel with a smaller Camaro steering wheel.  He was so proud of that.
                                           Every summer, my Grandpa Havens would go up to Lake Erie to a place called "Port Clinton".  There he would relax a bit and get in a little fishing off of the lake.  I remember my sisters, my brother and I going with him one year to spend a couple days the summer of 1978.
                                          My sister brought her tape recorder and a tape she had recorded songs off of the radio and I brought my trusty little radio, my Grandpa Havens gave me.   Back then we could ride in the bed of the truck because it had a cap on it and so that's what we did.
                                          I was reminded of that day listening to my car radio.  Its funny how songs can take one back to a time in ones childhood like that but it did and it was sure nice.  I hope that this brings you happy memories too SCHIZZ, LOVE YOU SO MUCH!

Very similar to my grandpa's old "72" truck, without the cap

   These are the songs I remember hearing on the way up to the lake, riding in grandpa's old 1972 Chevy Pick-up