Fourth & Fifth grades are a bit of a jumble, I remember moving from the TB San, to a little pink house, it was one of two side by side with a connecting carport. Lucille Bird lived in the other. a few things happened in that house.
1. My Gourd Vine: I got some gourd seeds from a friend and planted them outside the back utility porch door. They sprouted and grew, up the side of the house, over the roof, (about 10 feet of roof), down the other side, across a 3 foot strip, and over the neighbors fence. Longest vine I have ever seen. We kept having to cut them off the door. And my mom met a reporter from the San Diego Union newspaper and she came over and took a picture and published it in the paper. I was famous for a few days!
2. We had a menegerie of pets, dogs cats birds, and always did have. Well a friend of my parents was going on vacation, and asked ifwe would sit their pets. They had a parrot, small dog, and a SKUNK! yes a black & white furry skunk, that had been de-oderized and only had a slight oder when very very close to you. His name was Elmer. He was a hoot and he and I became good friends. One evening, I was walking to the back porch and as I entered the kitchen, i saw the back porch was on fire. I yelled at my sisters, and they started reacting, they told me "get all the animals out", as they were going out to grab the water hose and fight the fire and call the fire department. I grabbed the bird cages and ran out handing them over the fence, to Patsy woh handed them to Ms lucille in her yard, then both dogs, and then started looking for Elmer. I could not find him anywhere. I thought and remembered he liked to hide behind the Kitchen stove so pulled it out and there he was I grabbed him up and ran to Ms. Lucilles. I was lucky because the back porch was a screened porch and the house was not filling up with smoke. The girls had the fire out before the fire department arrived, and everything ended good.
After That we moved to a house on ninth street where I had my first real crush she was a cute little blonde and I liked her very much. Alas it was not to be. nothing spectacular happened there but i did get to help install a septic tank, climbing intpo a deep hole and working with shovel and pick-axe. like a man LMAO.
Oh Yeah something else did happen in that house. As kids we would collect deposit bottles, on weekend drives, we would see a pop bottle and tell Dad or Mom and they would stop so we could grab it to cash in at the store. Well my neighbor had a certian toy set that I wanted bad so I started saving my share of the pop bottles to buy it. I saved and saved untilI had enough bottles and Phyllis took me to Hosies Market and we cashed them in. Then off to the Rexall to buy my toy!!! Well they were sold out, I was dissapointed but picked out a couple of toy cars and had money left. Phyllis had started smoking by this time and begged me to buy her a pack of smokes but I refused telling her it was my money I saved and I was not spending it on cigerettes. LOL
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