my old house on terrace drive in redding....we moved there the very first day of my 10th grade year.....we drove from davis early that morning a few hours away....i can't believe how much redding has grown up in these passing years, but i can close my eyes and see back all those years and see many memories in my minds eye.....
my friend sherri's house....round the corner....still looks the exact same except for the grown tree out front....we used to go home at lunch and eat a steak every day....and watched all my children and as the world turns....i had to convert from all my children since we were at her house--and eating her steak LOL lots of good memories of times with sherri and her family....
i got to see sherri and go out to lunch with her, that was grand fun.....it had been about 25 years or more since we had talked, so there was lots to catch up on, but it was as if no time had passed--she has the same walk, the same mannerisms, the same phrases....the same look....it was grand fun! i hope to get to go there again and to spend more time with her.... i am the one on the left...in a dress even! i rarely wear dresses.....i rarely take pictures....
phyllis' house.....my sister ruth, during her senior year, baby sat and house cleaned for phyllis. when it was time for ruth to go to college, i took her place and became indespensible to phyllis. i was like her wife.....i took care of the house, did the laundry, did the kids when they came home, fixed dinner, cleaned up, got the kids into bed etc.....she often traveled over the weekends and i stayed there alot....i made good money for a kid--i even had social security taken out LOL i grew up in that house.....lots of high school girl/guy drama and angst in those few years that i worked for her....it was also where i met david....but, that is for the 3rd or 4th block of memory lane...what one house represents....wow.
i babysat for a set of twins in this house.....they had a pool and after i got the kids in bed, i would go swimming at night....there is something about swimming at night under the gorgeous black star studded sky....so freeing.....redding is a really beautiful place. similar climate to where i live now--HOT in the summer, and cold in the winter with some snow....but it is beautiful there, and not here in the desert. the skies are similar--blue blue skies....i really liked living in redding and it was so much like home going back.
what fun to drive around the neighborhood and see so many friends homes and to take the drive of the walk to school. it has grown so much, but geez, it was like it was yesterday....
next post-- the high school, church and where i worked....and then, perhaps david and the mountains....
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How fun to go back - isn't it amazing how things "grow up" after a few years??? And David and the mountains - sounds very interesting....
Judie
judie,
way back in the day we were engaged.....
Memories are so much fun to visit. Two weeks ago I visited the small town in North Dakota for the first time since my family moved 48 years ago. I was nine years old--we found the two houses I remembered living in, my church, and elementary school. I even knocked on the door of the lady across the street who had been my mother's best friend! She was thrilled with the short visit!
how cool linda! once about 25 years ago christi and i had gone bymy old house in davis and knocked on the door. the nice lady let us go in and walk thru the house...that was COOL!!! can't imagine anyone letting s stranger in like that now-a-days though....
chrisit's mom suffers a bit from memory loss due to various health issues and age. i saw louise for the first time 2 years ago. christi had told her i was coming, and she knew me when i got there and has always remembered me when going to visit each time. what a thrill that is for me and for christi as that is really out of character for her normal capabilities....
yes, memory lane is a very sweet street, even when there are bad things that happened along the way, it just makes the good times/things all the sweeter and stronger...
i am leaving in a few hours for yet another trip to sacramento and to christi's. my nephew is getting married tomorrow. my sister ruth (his mom) would SOOOO have wanted to be there...i think tomorrow will be a very hard day in some ways. wonderful in others. wow, this is as long as a real post LOL i am sure that i will post about the trip and the wedding etc....
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