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Across the Fence:  do you remember your first TriKe?  |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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 Posted - Sep 01 2008 : 5:48:42 PM
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isn't this a cutie .. and a far cry from the 'klunkers' we rode in the 40's and 50's! i don't remember the color .. but i do remember the style and JOY of my first tricycle (which i shared with my sister) .. i also remember her first GREEN SCHWINN two-wheeler .. which i was still too small for! i even have a 1940's tricycle sittin' in my garden here at the farm!
i jus' got the above one for sofia for her birthday .. it 'collapses' so it can be easily transported if you want to go to the park or take it on vacation! it has a cute little basket and helmet too.
we didn't wear 'helmets' back then either .. but i do believe that is very wise. surprizingly we don't have a helmet law here in kentucky .. but the death rate from motorcycle accidents is higher than in most states with helmet laws. i know there is a petition out there trying to get a helmet law enacted here in kentucky .. you better believe hank and i signed it (now .. ef'fen there are any gurlfenz reading this and it bunches your britches .. you are welcome to say so .. jus' don't be 'mean-spirited' about it!!!) that is MY belief. we have a neighbor who's son was in an accident last year and is irreparably brain damaged because he landed on his head (the doctors said he would have been so much better off if he'd been wearing a helmet). and just the past couple weeks a young man and a young woman both died LOCALLY in motorcycle accidents .. neither were wearing helmets.)
A SECOND THOUGHT: now gurlfrenz .. i gotta' warn ya' .. i'm feeling a little 'itchy on the trigger' cuz' it seems lately that when someone kindly speaks their opinion on some things .. they get zinged by a few farmgirls.
if you read my postings .. you know that i'm a 'nice guy' .. and that i love uplifting, positive, happy postings .. i also LOVE interesting, intelligent conversations too .. on ANY subject. i will give MY opinions from time to time (as above about Helmet Laws) .. and if you have a differing view (lordy .. this all just started out to be a picture of the cute little trike i got for my grand-daughter .. but sadly .. i had to read and re-read and re-re-read it again and again ... to make sure i had not overtly been too outspoken in the way i expressed my personal belief. now that, to me, is a sad thing!
anyhoooooooo ... isn't this fancy little trike FUN! xoxo
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Sep 01 2008 : 6:28:15 PM
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I remember the first trikes at our house when I was little (they were shared by me, my sister and brother..we are very close in age)....there were two...one without a seat and one without handlebars....pretty tricky but we rode them all over anyhow!!!! I wonder where they came from?
I think my kids are the only ones in town who wear bike helmets on a regular basis! Where we lived before there was a helmet law and kids actually tease my kids about wearing helmets here. BUT...they have learned to be thick skinned about that or not ride their bikes at all..since if their Mama finds out they even rode one block without a helmet on they will be grounded from using their bikes for a week. They don't even try it ...not worth it to them! My oldest son, who raced mountain bikes when he was in high school, had a friend who was only saved from brain injury by a helmet and that sold me...they may not be cool or cute...but helmets are important.
That is a cute trike you got your grandbaby Frannie!!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Sep 01 2008 : 6:32:48 PM
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oh jenny .. i wonder where they are NOW!!! wouldn't it be fun to still have them!
and i love that the more 'popular' things that kids are into today .. have 'theme' helmets .. like Hannah Montana .. i saw disney princess ones .. i bet there are even John Deere helmets out there! I got one with butterflies on it for Sofia.
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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Firemama
True Blue Farmgirl
1731 Posts
Amanda
Medical Lake
WA
USA
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Posted - Sep 01 2008 : 6:38:04 PM
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I remember my first Hot wheel trike, it was a Cabbage Patch model, pink and lavender babbby!! My brother had a Knightrider one, we named it Kit he was a speed demon on that thing!
Mama to 2
FarmGirl# 20
People can only make you feel inferior with your permission, and you dont have my permission......
http://myfarmdreams.blogspot.com/
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Sep 01 2008 : 6:43:19 PM
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i remember when our grandson James was jus' learnin' to scoot around on a little baby-bike (not even a peddle one) .. he knew even then that HELMETS were a necessity .. i saw him scooting around in the kitchen with the COLANDAR upside down on his head! lordy! i wish i'd had a camera! teach 'em young i say! xo
wowzer .. pink and lavendar Cabbage Patch! wonder where THAT one is today? xo
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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melanie47601
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Melanie
Boonville
IN
USA
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StitchinWitch
True Blue Farmgirl
2272 Posts
Judith
Galt
CA
USA
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Posted - Sep 02 2008 : 12:45:23 AM
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Christmas 1946 - A little red tricycle; they were all metal back then. I was out riding it that afternoon and the neighborhood bully took the handlebars off and ran off with them. Dad fashioned me new ones out of a piece of pipe.
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elphie0503
True Blue Farmgirl
500 Posts
Samantha
Gilmer
Texas
USA
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Posted - Sep 02 2008 : 03:24:15 AM
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I had the Daisy Duke big wheel...and I thought that I was the stuff, lemme tell ya! Every picture of me during my 3rd-4th year of life I am on the big wheel!! I was hot stuff!!!
Samantha
www.elphie0503.blogspot.com
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort~~Albright
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Tracey
True Blue Farmgirl
766 Posts
Tracey
State of Confusion
USA
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Posted - Sep 02 2008 : 08:02:06 AM
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Oh, yes...I remember my first trike! It was red, and I got in trouble for riding it down the street one day. My mother was so mad, lol! It was early and no one was up, so I just went for a ride 
Desperate Horsewife, raising funds for the Mustang Makeover!
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