THEY JUST MIGHT HAVE BEEN STEELIES

It's just another one of those things tucked away. I just don't remember. But we didn't play marbles much when I was in black and white like the picture.

It seems maybe one Spring in my ninth year. But when I look back, it seems like a lot happened in my ninth year.

Something out of my long ago (I'll credit the Doobie Bros for that phrase) we started playing marbles, drawing the circle, and taking the marbles we could shoot out of the circle. I lost most of the time. And what I lost were solid steelies, I think.

I don't know where he got them, but my Dad had a ton of them. I thought they were ugly. The kaleidoscope marbles were the ones I liked. We also had some solid red ones that I lost, too. I don't remember any of the other kids having any of those. But, as I said, I wasn't very good at the game.

They should have marble tourneys for guys my age. I'm sure I'd be better now. But getting on my knees, getting on the ground would cause such a creaking sound and utterance like, "Oh, Boy," that it might be distracting. And then having to get up after one full game, if I could last that long in that position, well it might be ugly, too.

But I'm challenging anyone to a game. Replaced knees, artificial knees, or just ones like mine that don't seem to want to bend . Bring it!