SepteRemember: John #2
We moved to Michigan when I was five and John was not quite yet four. The first house we lived in was part of an old farm in a valley. The house was pretty small for all eight of us. In fact, my parents' bed couldn't fit upstairs so they had to sleep in the living room. It got really cold there in the winter and we'd run downstairs to the wood stove to get dressed in the morning.
There was a big barn by the house that I'm pretty sure was off limits for me and John but I'm also sure my older brother got all us youngers into trouble many times for playing in it and climbing up into the haylofts.
Years later, John and I would ride our bikes over there because of the valley. We loved coasting down the big hill, pass the Vickers' house, and then pumping furiously to get up the next hill, just to coast back down again.
Oh that was fun! I'm sure you mean the Ellis' though, the Vickers lived on Coates Hwy. and that would have been a very long ride.
ReplyDeleteOf course, you're right. It was Vicky Ellis who lived there and who I went to kindergarten with along with a Nicky someone.
ReplyDeleteThat was quite a hill for riding. I'm not sure I knew you rode bikes on it.
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I always wanted to take a sled down that hill going North but since I also wanted to live I never did.
ReplyDeleteOoo, that would've been dangerous. I do remember sledding down a hill near that dairy farm not too far away.
ReplyDeleteRemember riding our bikes down to Jack's store for candy? Now that was good times.