Summertime in Delphos was the best....

Summertime always meant brand new Keds tennis shoes, sun burns, mosquito bites, and corn on the cob. Swimming was at the top of the list. Getting together with my dads folks there would be plenty of homemade potato salad and hand churned ice cream. We ate tomatoes off the vine and drank plenty of cool aide. Some how I never seemed to be able to dodge poison ivy and usually spent a week or 2 battling it but plenty of cantaloupe and watermelon seemed to help. We had plenty of flat tires on our bikes but dad was the best inner tube patcher in the world and he would come home from work and have us up and running in no time. Hula hoops were boring and they usually didn't hold my attention very long. Now slingshots were cool and I could hit pretty much anything I aimed at. My birthday was near the 4th of July so that was just another reason I liked summer. And then there was the fair. Cotton candy, candied apples, taffy, rides, french fries, games that you couldn't win and rides that made you sick. Yup, summertime in Delphos, Ohio. There has never been nothing quite like it. I forgot to mention the VanDel. It is the drive in between Delphos and Van Wert and as far as I know it is still in operation. Best drive in in the world.

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