I didn't have many toys when I was a kid, but I grew up on a dairy, so I had a lot of chores. Certain chores before school and certain chores after school.
But some of the chores were really fun. I loved feeding the baby goats and helping to round up the mother cows so they could feed their calves and check the piglets for parasites and various piglet illnesses. Getting milk from the milk-barn vat was my favorite early morning job when I was in kindergarten.
We played in the evenings. Me and my brothers had a lot of Tonka trucks and I had Lincoln logs and a scooter (motorless). We each had our own kites and BB guns and boxing gloves, and we went fishing almost every Saturday.
I just realized how Opie Taylor that sounds.