Craig Keen has assigned me the task of stating on my status line seven random facts about myself. Apparently the rules are, if you comment on a status of someone playing this game, then you must assign them a number, and I did happen to comment on Craigs status, so here goes 7 more random facts about myself having already listed 9 for Steve Fountain after commenting on his status update: 10. My Dads job (see previous status update for references) took us from where he and Mom met in E-Town (he worked for a finance company after coming out of the Army), to Henderson, KY where I attended pre-Kindergarten at age 4 and Kindergarten at age 5. 11. At age 5 Dads job would move him to New England, where we moved to live in Dover, NH for three months, and then to Bennington, VT. My brother was born in E-town. While in Bennington, VT, Mom gave birth to my sister, Barbara when I was 6. 12. I attended Sacred Heart (a Catholic School) in first grade. My Dad (step -Dad) was born and raised Catholic. We had snow in the school year of 1974/1975 on both Halloween and Easter of the same School year. 13. Living in New England is where I really learned to dress for winter and love snow, of which 2-3 feet of snow was not unusual, nor was snow on the ground from October to April. Winters were really long there. Fortunately Mom knew how to dress for the cold winters being from Alaska, as well as cloth me, and Dad was no stranger having grown up in Chesterton, IN near lake Michigan. I remember building snowmen with Dad and Timmy while visiting Grandma & Grandpa Voegtle and the wet snow getting so heavy, we could no longer roll the bottom of the snowman. 14. We would move to a suburb of Burlington, VT in 1975, called Shelbourne when I was 7, and I would finish the last quarter of school in first grade at Christ the King (another Catholic School) with my teacher Sister Barbara, and later start and complete 2nd grade with my beloved teacher Sister Ursula, who remained a life long family friend, staying in touch until her death in 1999. 15. We would also move to Colchester, VT before leaving New England in 1976 to a neat A Frame House built into granite rock on a hill in between mountains. The house had a front deck with an iron spiral stair way that went down to the drive way in front of garage. When you looked out the wide open window, or off the deck, or even from the yard, you could see where we were set in between Mountain ranges, opposing ones in the valley across the secondary highway and across the valley in the distance that were snow capped year round except for June, July, and August. The house had a laundry chute where Timmy and I could drop our clothes and they would land on top of the washing machine. Barbara had just learned to walk and was 2 at the time. I was 8 and Timmy was 5. 16. Because of my Brothers severe allergies to pine mold, our Doctor informed Dads company we need to move back South. Before we would return to KY, we would spend a year in Kettering, OH just outside Dayton, and I was get to attend Christ The King (my 3rd and last Catholic School) and get to be a Cubscout for the first and only time in my childhood, before returning to our home in KY in May of 1977.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:24:12 +0000
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