I remember when I was little there was a huge oak tree in our yard. I am not sure how old it was, but it was really tall... I want to say at least 15 feet, but obviously I could be wrong since when you are little, everything appears taller than it should be. I remember taking the acrons and throwing them at people. Mainly my sister
I think once I tried to plant an acorn thinking another huge oak would just sprout up. It is possible that a little tree grew there, but I honestly doubt it. I am sure some squirel was watching was I was doing, and dug up the acorn to eat, or hide. Once I was walking around barefoot under the oak tree, and stepped on a fork. That hurt. I honestly think now, that probably we were the one who brought it out, and left it by the tree, but I thought at the time that some wandering person had left it there. I remember there was a long walkway by the tree...
Mainly a dirt path, and it seemed like our driveway was really long, so it was a bit of a walk to get out to the road. It was a nice walk though... Oh course I may be wrong... I could have sworn we had a dirt drive way.
I remember a neighbor lived near us. She was the landlord's sister, and my sister tried to convince me she was a witch. I know that she would yell at us occasionally if we were too loud and near her house. I do remember going in her house a few times. I am not sure why. But usually we weren't allowed near her house. I think when we went trick or treating she gave us random things like fruit.
For awhile there was a trailer behind our house, and someone lived in it. I think. Maybe someone always live in it, but i remember one of the people had a chihuahua.
I remember my sister made me eat dirt. I also remember her making me crawl under the house for something. I want to say to eat a roly poly bug, but it may have just been to catch one.
I remember crawling under the house on more than one occasion. I was always afraid some animal would get me, but I remember one time crawling till almost the middle of the house, before something freaked me out, and I crawled back out. (I think I also tried to crawl under the house in Arcadia as well.)
I do know we were told not to go under the house.
As I think about this, I wonder how much I remember and how much is actually things i imagined. It is hard to tell.... It is weird to think something happened 20 years ago, or longer, and how your memory can shift and change in that amount of time.
Things can happen last week, and they seem like an eternity. Memory is such a strange thing. I think this is such an interesting challenge, because I think no matter what memory we write about, we can't always be 100% certain that things happened the way we thought. It is interesting to see two sides to an event, and I think that somewhere inbetween is actually the real story, and that maybe both sides are missing something.
Mainly a dirt path, and it seemed like our driveway was really long, so it was a bit of a walk to get out to the road. It was a nice walk though... Oh course I may be wrong... I could have sworn we had a dirt drive way.
I remember a neighbor lived near us. She was the landlord's sister, and my sister tried to convince me she was a witch. I know that she would yell at us occasionally if we were too loud and near her house. I do remember going in her house a few times. I am not sure why. But usually we weren't allowed near her house. I think when we went trick or treating she gave us random things like fruit.
For awhile there was a trailer behind our house, and someone lived in it. I think. Maybe someone always live in it, but i remember one of the people had a chihuahua.
I remember my sister made me eat dirt. I also remember her making me crawl under the house for something. I want to say to eat a roly poly bug, but it may have just been to catch one.
I remember crawling under the house on more than one occasion. I was always afraid some animal would get me, but I remember one time crawling till almost the middle of the house, before something freaked me out, and I crawled back out. (I think I also tried to crawl under the house in Arcadia as well.)
I do know we were told not to go under the house.
As I think about this, I wonder how much I remember and how much is actually things i imagined. It is hard to tell.... It is weird to think something happened 20 years ago, or longer, and how your memory can shift and change in that amount of time.
Things can happen last week, and they seem like an eternity. Memory is such a strange thing. I think this is such an interesting challenge, because I think no matter what memory we write about, we can't always be 100% certain that things happened the way we thought. It is interesting to see two sides to an event, and I think that somewhere inbetween is actually the real story, and that maybe both sides are missing something.
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