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When I was still a kid, my grandmother lived in a house with a rather high terrace. She was strict about getting on it so I was not allowed to be on it unless it was an emergency. The whole thing was a real pain to mow, I want to tell you. I spent some pretty long summers there with her trying not to fall on my…..posterior while mowing the yard.
Thing is, there were some great adventures there. For instance, the day I found an orphaned bunny. I took it home and raised it to adulthood, then let him go. He brought his family to see us from time to time. Yes, it was him! Then there was the bat. I found him on a light pole out back of her house. I put him in a jar for a couple of hours. When I noticed that he wasn’t doing too well, I let him go. A friend of mine had an alligator for a pet. He was a little guy, about a foot long, but I wanted nothing to do with him! A friend across the street used to live in Hawaii! He loved to walk in the snow barefoot. I hated that. It looked really cold though he said it wasn’t. I think he lied to me.
My grandmother’s yard was fantastic for lots of things but the worst part of it was the concrete steps up to her house. They were long and sort of steep. If I were going to travel up them now, I would be using a stair lift! Too many steps, too high up for me. But she and I went up and down the things every time we went out shopping. We went to the local Rexall drug store, about two blocks away, which had amazing things in it. I got all my comic books there! If only I still had those books. They are so rare now. Still, I had a great time with my grandmother during all those summers and during the school years before I was a teen.
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What wonderful memories, thanks for sharing. I still have dreams about my grandmother’s back yard. The mint growing under my grandpa’s window was my favorite.
I actually had other things but these were the best of the best. She was fantastic and her yard was awesome. I loved it.
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