Back in the '60s and '70s:
Hay rides
Visiting Dad as a family when he was at the farm summer fallowing
Jumping off the garage just because
Climbing trees
Pet rabbits dying
Dog running away
Camping with the family
Camping with CSB troop x several times
Building a raft and poling it around a pond
Playing "ditch" until the curfew siren sounded, then keep playing until 10 pm!
Lighting fires in back yard
Building a hobo stove and showing people how to cook eggs on it when I was 8
Having a plane do an emergency landing at the farm
Catching my first fish
BB guns and getting shot in the chest
Building bean shooters from clothesline pins
Hanging my towel up to dry on the clothes line after swimming lessons
First kiss
Shooting arrows in the back yard
Playing with real steel tipped lawn darts and never getting hurt
Mowing the lawn a bazillion times
I was always the one to light the BBQ (Mom was afraid of this!)
Getting the "strap" in grade 1
Writing "I will not...." on foolscap as punishment x many times
Tossing hay bales
Driving farm equipment before old enough to drive car
Helping Dad with building various things around house
Learning to bike (by myself!)
Learning to skate and trip and fall and trip and fall
Kickball contests - hitting a 10' wide goal from 75 yards!
Building model rockets and flying them
Riding on an ice boat
Building a darkroom for Shop class
Excelling at technical drawings for Shop class
Converted bedroom closet to a darkroom at home
Sticking my tongue on the flag pole (long before I saw Christmas Story!)
Real chemistry sets with stuff to blow up!
Microscopes and telescopes
Many generations of pet cats
Breaking my collar bone / chin
Chipping my teeth
Getting sick with EVERY childhood disease imaginable
Smallpox vaccine
Breaking my right arm
Breaking my big toe
Breaking my glasses multiple times
Being chased by wasps
Camping in the back yard under a bed sheet when I was 5
Waking up in the middle of the night so my brother and I could fix the bunk beds so it wouldn't fall on me
Watching the moon landing - LIVE
Watching Vincent Price movies, B horror flicks on TV
Watching movies back when the had Comics, Preludes, & Intermissions in the theatres
Spending 5 cents on candy bars, penny for 4 double bubbles, stubby cokes for 7 cents, full size cokes for 10 cents, comic books for a dime
Ice cream floats
Many ice forts
Several underground dirt forts
Hanging around EVERY house being constructed in town
Reading shelves worth of books

Yep, growing up was fun.