Here are two pictures from our house in Bonney Lake. I,m sorry about the small size of these old pictures. Debbie was trying to help me make them bigger. She did make one bigger but she didn't know how she did it. Last night she tried some more. Until we can figure out how to make them bigger this will have to do. As you can see, our house was a cement block house. We never did get it finished. One reason was that we got a loan from this crook in Bonney Lake who was developing Ponderosa Estates (a mobile home park where you bought the lots). We did not get all the materials that we had been promised. He just skipped with a lot of everybody's money. The next reason was that your dad got laid off at Bungee's. They cut down to one man. Since Bud had been there longer than your dad, they kept him. We had a lot of trials and tribulations there but I am not going to go into all that because I want to dwell on the good things. The picture at the right is Richard hold a cat. He and Darrell both have always loved cats. One day I remember watching Darrell come home from the Mobile Park carrying a kitten. When he got closer to the house he put it down and then came and told me, the kitten followed him home. We checked to see if anyone was missing a cat, but no one seemed to claim it, so we had another cat. We always had a dog too. We had very little money at that time and your dad worked a lot of different jobs. I did my best to keep a cheerful attitude. We played a lot of games and I read a lot to you kids. In the summer I would pack a picnic lunch and we would drag our cow across the road to the State Property. We would spend most of the day there. We let Babe graze. We called the spot we picked, the Meadow. It was very pretty there. All you kids loved being outside or maybe it was because I sent you outside so I could get things done. We had a big picnic table out back. You ate your lunch there, played games, played with playdough. We did have a phone. We were on an eight party line. You always had somebody listening in. There were a couple of women that really talked on and on. If you really needed to use the phone you would have to ask them if they could hang up and let you use the phone. Still, it was a good time in my life all in all.