I remember the summer I spent the entire time playing FFXI and made me realize that I had a video game issue.  =P  Not sure if that's a "fond" one, though, haha.

My birthday's always been at the beginning of summer.  When I was younger I took swimming lessons, even though I'm a terribly slow swimmer, hate getting water in my face, and was convinced I would drown for the longest time, lol.

I went to diabetic summer camp a lot, too.  I was the "problem camper" that they could never help me keep my bloodsugars under control.  Most of the other boys were ridiculous cruel, too. 

I did Boy Scout Camp, too.  Those were always good.  I kept busy, lol.  After I got Eagle Scout I went 1 or 2 more times.  One of them I just sat around all day and played Euchre with Mr. Biggs (one of the dads) and whoever else would join.  I swear I played like 50 games a day for an entire week, lol.  I helped out the younger scouts, too, but mostly I just played "senior scout" and watched over the wee ones.  The first few years I did it my dad always went, too.  Those were good times, as well.

God bless,
~Scott

My purple bike with the glittery purple banana seat. I rode it all over the neighborhood. Sometimes I used clothespins to attach playing cards to the spokes so I'd sound as cool as I looked. We had a very large area we were allowed to ride in and our curfew was "when it starts to get dark." Then, after playing hard in the humid Corpus Christi summer heat, walking into the air conditioned house felt so good!

What you called doodlebugs we called "topitos". We would get a small twig or a piece of straw from a broom and twirl it in thier sand pit until they came out. The topitos looked like tiny dinosaurs (ankylosaurus) to us. In the summer we would play hide-and-go seek, camp out in our backyards and tell ghost stories. We would also build clubhouses and call them "forts" and have slingshot wars using chinaberries. Boy did those green suckers sting! We also played tops and marbles. Gosh, this brought back memories!