Jan 11, 2011

Where was your first home? What are your earliest memories of your home? Can you draw a floor plan of your home?

We lived in an older home 2 miles or so from Duchesne. I remember in my earliest years at age three having to climb the stairs to my bedroom with a leg brace that prevented bending of my knee so I would step up one and swing my leg up to the step above that and lift myself up. It took me quite a bit of time to climb the stairs and strange as it may seem I do not have any vivid memory of going back down. There was also a pipe that ran up the side of the house near our bedroom window and I would climb out of the window and slide down the pipe to get out, a built in fire escape i suppose. It was easy to climb back up and get in the same way. Later after we dug two more rooms out from under the house that became me bedrooms , one for sleeping in and one for studying, of which I did very little of the latter. I could easily draw a floor plan but not in this blog. I will have to draw it and photograph it instead. there were three levels to the home consisting of several rooms. The basement had two bedrooms and a furnace room. Mainfloor had a kitchen, side porch (later included into the living room), two bathrooms, master bedroom, fruitroom, and back porch. The upper level had two bedrooms and two sides used for attic storage. I was the one who always got to clean and organize the attic space that collected old clothes, magazines and toys. It was actually pretty fun to play in also.