I really would have liked that. Your childhood seems like it was pretty nice, at least on the "living close to nature" front!
I am just sad that I/we didn't make more of those memories. I am an introvert at heart so I wasn't as active and social that I would have liked, looking back. It was a butt-load more than a kid growing up in the city, but, you know.
There was a time when we had our cousins from the city over basically every weekend (I had 10 pairs of Uncles/Aunts with 2 to 3 kids each, who were scattered over basically the whole of Germany, and only my Family and my mothers oldest sisters family lived in a (the same) Village, so we were a convenient vacation location for our extended family
My father was a Farmer, so we always had pigs, cows, chickens, etc. End of Summer was grass cutting time and a few weeks later hay storing. It was always an event for us kids, driving the tractors (which we were trained on since, like 6 or so), loading they hay first to the wagons and then up into the compartment under the roof of the barn. Helping other Farmer and the big Farmer with their harvest (waking up at 3 to 4 and harvest turnips ;D ) The big Farmer either paid us kids cash or in turnips for our own animals)
standing hours behind this fucking asshole and cut the turnips up
We explored the woods, swam in the dozen of lakes that were in bicycle range in the summer. played on the ice on them in the winter, built treehouses, dug holes in the ground and slapped boards above it and called it a secret base...
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over 20 years later, most of them in a tiny apartment in a city, doing shitty jobs...
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Sorry, I didn't want to dive so deep...