Scheduled to be released on June 29, 2012 is the sequel to the GI Joe Live action movie; GI Joe 2: Retaliation. Judging from the trailer, the action scenes look spectacular. But that’s all I’m going to say about that.

Released in 1987 by Hasbro for their GI Joe toyline was the Cobra Jetpack. The toy didn’t come with a figure. I always considered this to be the upgrade to the old Cobra CLAW that Cobra used for infiltration. In the literature it was a one man jet pack armed with machine guns and air to air rockets.

In the imagination of a young boy, an ordinary lamp post can serve an even greater purpose than just as a lowly bringer of illumination. Was walking in a village and I passed by a house that had this little lamp post. Seeing it reminded me of a lamp post that was in a former house of ours. My friends and I would play with this lamp post and imagine that it was a GI Joe outpost.

I posted a while back about “the drainage” that I liked to use my imagination on when I was a young child. Today I’d like to post about our lawn in our old house that I spent a lot of time playing on with my toys.