Ernie asks if we remember the first house we grew up in...
I remember bits and pieces of it. It was a dark, washed-out yellow rancher in Abbotsford on Merlin Drive. When we (me, my mom and my dad) first moved to Abbotsford, we lived in a townhome, which I remember nothing about (being only 1). Shortly after, we moved to the house on Merlin.
What I remember about the house is that it was nice inside, but small; it was a single-story two bedroom house backing onto a ravine.
Memories from that house are scattered; I remember zipping around on my Big Wheel, getting my first bike, jumping on a trampoline filled with water at a friend's house, the ravine in behind the house, and my babysitter, Beverly Stone (mom worked until I was 5). I also remember having an imaginary friend, Harvey, and hearing what to me at the time was surely the voice of God (which I assume today to have been a sonic boom).
We moved out of the house on Merlin Drive when mom became pregnant with my sister Susan. We'd visit it from time to time, and moan about how the new owners had let the yard overgrow... which they did - you couldn't see the house for all the shrubs and trees that had grown in front of it.
Do you remember your first home?
Yep. Still living in it. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to move.
-- Posted by >> Wim » Thursday, August 28, 2003 12:29 AMHi Ernie,
-- Posted by >> Gayle Eldridge » Thursday, August 28, 2003 05:02 PMYou seem totally cool and funny. I am a virgin to blogging. Any tips for me? Gayle
my first home was a cozy little bungalow with a huge park and sledding hill out back. If you go back right now and look on the driveway, right in between the two garage doors my 1 year old baby feet are imprinted in the cement.
-- Posted by >> amanda » Friday, August 29, 2003 01:33 PMActually, I remember all of my childhood homes, and many events. But has anyone else moved more times than years they've been alive? I have. I am nearly 36 years old and I have moved approximately 42 times. It's exhausting, I don't know what I did to deserve it and frankly I'm sick of it. It effects my career, my health, my social life and everything else. My goal is to earn enough money to custom build my OWN home and stay there until I'm 350 years old!!!! Gee, maybe I should start my own blog sight?
-- Posted by >> shehawke » Tuesday, September 2, 2003 03:26 PMShehawke
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