Posted by ShadetreeRet on November 20, 2012 at 21:08:44 from (184.4.21.191):
In Reply to: Childhood memories posted by Philt on November 20, 2012 at 20:19:31:
Guess we all do that from time to time. We lived at three different places while I was growing up. Dad was a "sharecropper" for years. The first place I remember with fond memories, the second I would as soon forget, (although that is where I learned to drive a 9N Ford at the age of 9.) Then when I had just turned 12 Dad bought a small farm where spent the rest of my childhood. The first place has a modern dwelling where the old two story farmhouse once stood, the second place, the house we lived in is gone and a goodly portion of the place has been divided into tracts which sprouted manufactured housing. Dad and Mon sold the little farm in late seventies and the folks who bought it tore the old house down and built about $150,000 house. Mom and Dad bought a mobile home on two acres on which they were able to keep busy growing a garden, but I never could really get used to going over there. I guess the old saying is true, "You can't go home again."
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