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We have binoculars, maps, "The Roadside Geology of Montana", rock and
mineral field guide, shovel, pail, screen, magnifying glass, rock pick, (
can you guess what we do a lot of?) and once, for about half a block,
the neighbors cat. I think I'll add a dictionary.
My dh always has a fishing rod in his truck.

There's a little book called "Names on the Face Of Montana". It gives a
brief history of place names. It's great in the car when you drive
through "Two Dot" and wonder just how the hell it got a name like that.
It's been in our car for the last year or so. I don't know if they exist
for all the states.

Deb L

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In a message dated 5/9/02 1:51:14 PM, ddzimlew@... writes:

<< There's a little book called "Names on the Face Of Montana". It gives a
brief history of place names. It's great in the car when you drive
through "Two Dot" and wonder just how the hell it got a name like that.
It's been in our car for the last year or so. I don't know if they exist
for all the states. >>

New Mexico Place Names is our state's version. It's WONDERFUL.

Sandra

Dana Matt

--- ddzimlew@... wrote:
> We have binoculars, maps, "The Roadside Geology of
> Montana",

We have this one!!


> There's a little book called "Names on the Face Of
> Montana".

Gotta get this one!!

:)
Thanks for the idea, Deb!
Dana
Montana Mama

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I'm getting so many great ideas here!We were very much walking,
scootering, and biking people when we lived in Alameda, and we're still
getting used to being 30 miles from any town over over 1000 people (and 6
miles from any town at all). So our car is fuller... we have:

2 mitts, a softball, and a baseball
2 tennis rackets
2 racket ball rackets
Soccer ball
Gym bag with swimsuits, walkman, racquetball balls
Handheld electronic Yahtzee game
Backseat Bingo Game (the best happy meal toy ever)
Lots of comics, mostly Archies, and misc. other books
A couple of water bottles
Jacket and sweatshirt
Maps of Woodland and Davis and of Fremont
Yolo County phone book (pretty small, covers Woodland and Davis, the big
towns closest to us)

I'm still getting used to having such a sports-oriented kid. It snuck up
on me...

Dar

Dana Matt

phone books! I don't keep them in my car, but we have
every one for Montana, and some for Idaho, too...Of
course, there aren't that many ;), but you just never
know when you need to look up a phone # from another
city!
Dana
Montana Mama
--- freeform@... wrote:
> I'm getting so many great ideas here!We were very
> much walking,
> scootering, and biking people when we lived in
> Alameda, and we're still
> getting used to being 30 miles from any town over
> over 1000 people (and 6
> miles from any town at all). So our car is fuller...
> we have:
>
> 2 mitts, a softball, and a baseball
> 2 tennis rackets
> 2 racket ball rackets
> Soccer ball
> Gym bag with swimsuits, walkman, racquetball balls
> Handheld electronic Yahtzee game
> Backseat Bingo Game (the best happy meal toy ever)
> Lots of comics, mostly Archies, and misc. other
> books
> A couple of water bottles
> Jacket and sweatshirt
> Maps of Woodland and Davis and of Fremont
> Yolo County phone book (pretty small, covers
> Woodland and Davis, the big
> towns closest to us)
>
> I'm still getting used to having such a
> sports-oriented kid. It snuck up
> on me...
>
> Dar
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<< phone books! I don't keep them in my car, but we have
every one for Montana, and some for Idaho, too...Of
course, there aren't that many ;), but you just never
know when you need to look up a phone # from another
city! >>

Oh yes. We do have a phone book in the car, and it has helped for knowing
where the nearest whatever-chain-thing is, or pizza place address. Since I
don't have a PHONE in the car, I just use it for the addresses! <g>

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On Fri, 10 May 2002 11:43:27 EDT SandraDodd@... writes:
> Oh yes. We do have a phone book in the car, and it has helped for
> knowing
> where the nearest whatever-chain-thing is, or pizza place address.
> Since I
> don't have a PHONE in the car, I just use it for the addresses! <g>

Oh, you must be the only other person in the world who doesn't have a
cell phone! And my friends told me I was the only one... :-)

Dar

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I don't have a cell phone either.
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have
not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." A. Einstein

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OR cable! lol
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have
not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." A. Einstein

Sharon Rudd

> Oh, you must be the only other person in the world
> who doesn't have a
> cell phone! And my friends told me I was the only
> one... :-)
>
> Dar
>
I don't (have a cell phone).
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--- freeform@... wrote:
>
> On Fri, 10 May 2002 11:43:27 EDT SandraDodd@...
> writes:
> > Oh yes. We do have a phone book in the car, and
> it has helped for
> > knowing
> > where the nearest whatever-chain-thing is, or
> pizza place address.
> > Since I
> > don't have a PHONE in the car, I just use it for
> the addresses! <g>
>
> Oh, you must be the only other person in the world
> who doesn't have a
> cell phone! And my friends told me I was the only
> one... :-)
>
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>
>
>Oh, you must be the only other person in the world who doesn't have a
>cell phone! And my friends told me I was the only one... :-)

Count me in too, thought we're probably going to get one for the mountain
biker, for emergencies.
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moonmeghan

<<<<--- In AlwaysLearning@y..., freeform@j... wrote:
>
> On Fri, 10 May 2002 11:43:27 EDT SandraDodd@a... writes:
> > Oh yes. We do have a phone book in the car, and it has
helped for
> > knowing
> > where the nearest whatever-chain-thing is, or pizza place
address.
> > Since I
> > don't have a PHONE in the car, I just use it for the addresses!
<g>
>
> Oh, you must be the only other person in the world who doesn't
have a
> cell phone! And my friends told me I was the only one... :-)
>
> Dar>>>>


Well, you can add me to that list too! Funnily enough, quite a few
of my friends don't have cell phones either.
In my car, there is: A raquet ball racket and two tennis balls (both
belonging to the dogs), gloves, hats, sweatshirts, phone book
(for the same reason as Sandra's), loads of maps, CDs, 4 car
bingo games, a bottle of bubbles, 'treasures' of Tamzin's (like
rocks, dead flowers, bits of questionable old stuff, etc.), string,
tape, scissors, drawing paper, colored pencils, a tire iron, lip
balm, hand cream, water, Altoids (cinnamon, of course), doll car
seat, magazine entitled, "101 Things To Do In Butte County", the
last 2 weeks of the Chico News and Review, picnic blanket,
math Wrap Ups, and I'm sure there's other stuff I'm forgetting but
that's the main stuff.

Meghan

mary krzyzanowski

We don't have a cell phone either (or cable). Our van does have snacks,
jackets, strollers, carrier, sand box toys, balls,
coloring/activity/workbooks (they're all the same to us), pencils, colored
pencils, papers, maps, books, my 4yodd's backpack of baby dolls, assorted
small toys, cassettes, socks and shoes (2yods loves to wiggle his
tootsies!), Elmo that stays in the van, the other 2 are in the house, and
whatever else my kiddos bring along no matter the length of a drive.
Mary-NY



>From: "moonmeghan" <moonmeghan@...>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Re: What's in your car...
>Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 07:09:50 -0000
>
><<<<--- In AlwaysLearning@y..., freeform@j... wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 10 May 2002 11:43:27 EDT SandraDodd@a... writes:
> > > Oh yes. We do have a phone book in the car, and it has
>helped for
> > > knowing
> > > where the nearest whatever-chain-thing is, or pizza place
>address.
> > > Since I
> > > don't have a PHONE in the car, I just use it for the addresses!
><g>
> >
> > Oh, you must be the only other person in the world who doesn't
>have a
> > cell phone! And my friends told me I was the only one... :-)
> >
> > Dar>>>>
>
>
>Well, you can add me to that list too! Funnily enough, quite a few
>of my friends don't have cell phones either.
>In my car, there is: A raquet ball racket and two tennis balls (both
>belonging to the dogs), gloves, hats, sweatshirts, phone book
>(for the same reason as Sandra's), loads of maps, CDs, 4 car
>bingo games, a bottle of bubbles, 'treasures' of Tamzin's (like
>rocks, dead flowers, bits of questionable old stuff, etc.), string,
>tape, scissors, drawing paper, colored pencils, a tire iron, lip
>balm, hand cream, water, Altoids (cinnamon, of course), doll car
>seat, magazine entitled, "101 Things To Do In Butte County", the
>last 2 weeks of the Chico News and Review, picnic blanket,
>math Wrap Ups, and I'm sure there's other stuff I'm forgetting but
>that's the main stuff.
>
>Meghan
>




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In a message dated 5/11/02 11:14:29 PM, meembeam@... writes:

<< Our van does have snacks,
jackets, strollers, carrier, sand box toys, balls,
coloring/activity/workbooks (they're all the same to us), pencils, colored
pencils, papers, maps, books, my 4yodd's backpack of baby dolls, assorted
small toys, cassettes, socks and shoes (2yods loves to wiggle his
tootsies!), Elmo that stays in the van, the other 2 are in the house, and
whatever else my kiddos bring along no matter the length of a drive. >>

This is sweet to me. We've never been big on mother's day or father's day
here at all, and often I've been out of town at an SCA event without my kids
(it's our coronation weekend--tournaments and feasts and elevation of the new
king and queen for the next six months), and that's where my husband is this
weekend, in Colorado Springs. But I'm not doing much SCA these days, and so
I'm home with the kids, who are all asleep. But when I got up I was putzing
around, watering the tomatoes and onions, cleaning up the back yard a bit,
picking up dishes in the den, wondering what would be a perfect mother's day
thing for me and I thought:

I would like to magically have my toddlers back for one day.

And when I had toddlers we had those kinds of things in the car, so Mary's
list brought tears to my eyes. Raffi cassettes, sand-play equipment, jump
rope, sidewalk chalk (which we actually do have some of in the van right now
anyway <g>)...

I'm glad my kids are healthy and happy, but two are too big to pick up, and
one (Holly, who slept with me last night) is on the verge of being so, and I
would love to have one in the backpack and one in arms and them peeking at
each other over my shoulder while the other one got totally excited about
seeing a butterfly. I'm glad to have such memories.

Sandra

Dan Vilter

on 5/12/02 6:37 AM, SandraDodd@... at SandraDodd@... wrote:

> I would like to magically have my toddlers back for one day.


In one of those stand out days of my life, I stood there looking at my then
toddling son, tearing around the living room enveloping and celebrating his
expanding universe. Reviling in the joy that his new found mobility had
given him. And it hit me. You had to give up the infant to get the toddler.
That cooing, flailing, content, seductive bundle of goodness was gone. He
had burst from his chrysalis a grabbed hold of the world with both hands and
feet.

And the metamorphosis's just keep happening. And I keep giving up my son to
get that next version of goodness.

Now my 5'-11" 12 yo comes to sit on the lap of his 5'-8" mother and once she
has carefully arranged her legs to help prevent any broken bones, I see that
content smile bathe over her, that particular smile I first saw on her face
nursing her brand new infant.

Happy Mother's Day everyone

-Dan Vilter

Nancy Wooton

on 5/11/02 12:09 AM, moonmeghan at moonmeghan@... wrote:

>
> Well, you can add me to that list too! Funnily enough, quite a few
> of my friends don't have cell phones either.
> In my car, there is: A raquet ball racket and two tennis balls (both
> belonging to the dogs), gloves, hats, sweatshirts, phone book
> (for the same reason as Sandra's), loads of maps, CDs, 4 car
> bingo games, a bottle of bubbles, 'treasures' of Tamzin's (like
> rocks, dead flowers, bits of questionable old stuff, etc.), string,
> tape, scissors, drawing paper, colored pencils, a tire iron, lip
> balm, hand cream, water, Altoids (cinnamon, of course), doll car
> seat, magazine entitled, "101 Things To Do In Butte County", the
> last 2 weeks of the Chico News and Review, picnic blanket,
> math Wrap Ups, and I'm sure there's other stuff I'm forgetting but
> that's the main stuff.

All this stuff is in the car, not the trunk? I have an Escort Wagon (and no
cell phone <g>); since I'd already done the inertia experiments, I decided
to keep the car cleaned out =:-0

I have 6 cassette tapes, secured more or less in a slot below the dash; maps
secured in the pockets built into the doors; sunscreen, car manual,
insurance and registration in the glove box, and a blanket and towels in the
trunk area, because the puppy gets carsick. I've thought about putting a
dog barrier behind the back seats, because 2 dogs totalling nearly 90 lbs
would weigh a heck of a lot more travelling 60 mph through my car if we came
to a *very* sudden stop.

I hope you've got those scissors and tire iron secured.

Nancy of the Clean Car
(when my kids were much littler, I had a car with a trunk <g> Still, all
the stuff that rode with them was lightweight or soft, and I never let them
eat in the car! I imagined them choking in their carseats while I looked
for an offramp!!)

moonmeghan

<<<<> All this stuff is in the car, not the trunk? >>>>

I am one of those 'people' with an SUV. I have a '91 Ford
Explorer. I haul a lot of stuff (like yard waste, recycling - no curb
side service here, furniture, etc.)

<<<<a blanket and towels in the
> trunk area, because the puppy gets carsick. I've thought about
putting a
> dog barrier behind the back seats, because 2 dogs totalling
nearly 90 lbs
> would weigh a heck of a lot more travelling 60 mph through my
car if we came
> to a *very* sudden stop.>>>>

I have a dog barrier because one of my dogs used to get carsick.
I give her a homeopathic remedy called cocculus indicus (one a
half an hour before travelling and one just before we leave - 30c
strength). She still drools a lot, but never gets sick anymore. We
still have the barrier though to prevent her from drooling all over
the heads of the backseat passengers <g>.

<<<<> I hope you've got those scissors and tire iron
secured.>>>>

Absolutely, we have a plastic box with a lid on it for art supplies.
And the tire iron is strapped under the back seat.

<<<<> Nancy of the Clean Car>>>>

Maybe someday I'll be able to say that!

Meghan

Nanci Kuykendall

We usually don't spend a lot of time in the car,
because my boys are not very good with sitting still,
and are incredibly hard to take shopping or anything
like that. We do keep a first aid kit, maps, tour
books, some matchbox cars, some paper towels, and a
rotating scatter of misc "absolutely essential" toys
that have to go on even the shortest ride.

Nanci K.

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I'm glad I was able to bring happy memories to you Sandra. I also have a
7yods, 9yodd and 12 yodd.
Mary-NY

>From: SandraDodd@...
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Re: What's in your car...
>Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 09:37:12 EDT
>
>
>In a message dated 5/11/02 11:14:29 PM, meembeam@... writes:
>
><< Our van does have snacks,
>jackets, strollers, carrier, sand box toys, balls,
>coloring/activity/workbooks (they're all the same to us), pencils, colored
>pencils, papers, maps, books, my 4yodd's backpack of baby dolls, assorted
>small toys, cassettes, socks and shoes (2yods loves to wiggle his
>tootsies!), Elmo that stays in the van, the other 2 are in the house, and
>whatever else my kiddos bring along no matter the length of a drive. >>
>
>This is sweet to me. We've never been big on mother's day or father's day
>here at all, and often I've been out of town at an SCA event without my
>kids
>(it's our coronation weekend--tournaments and feasts and elevation of the
>new
>king and queen for the next six months), and that's where my husband is
>this
>weekend, in Colorado Springs. But I'm not doing much SCA these days, and
>so
>I'm home with the kids, who are all asleep. But when I got up I was
>putzing
>around, watering the tomatoes and onions, cleaning up the back yard a bit,
>picking up dishes in the den, wondering what would be a perfect mother's
>day
>thing for me and I thought:
>
>I would like to magically have my toddlers back for one day.
>
>And when I had toddlers we had those kinds of things in the car, so Mary's
>list brought tears to my eyes. Raffi cassettes, sand-play equipment, jump
>rope, sidewalk chalk (which we actually do have some of in the van right
>now
>anyway <g>)...
>
>I'm glad my kids are healthy and happy, but two are too big to pick up, and
>one (Holly, who slept with me last night) is on the verge of being so, and
>I
>would love to have one in the backpack and one in arms and them peeking at
>each other over my shoulder while the other one got totally excited about
>seeing a butterfly. I'm glad to have such memories.
>
>Sandra




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