This is the house we bought in Buckley. This was a real fixer-upper. I am not sure when it was built but there had been no indoor plumbing when it was built. A room had been added later and it had an old claw-foot tub and toilet. We still had a little money, so we bought a new tub, toilet and basin. The fixtures were a nice shade of green that was so popular then. The walls had torn wallpaper everywhere. Uncle Loyd said he would paper it for us. He spent quite a bit of time doing that for us and did some painting too. The house was two stories. (After we sold it, the new owner made it into one story) When David was here for my 80th birthday, we went up to Enumclaw and Buckley before he went back to Alaska. The house is still there. It looks well kept up. Living in Buckley was one of the best periods in my life. I love small towns. Of course, those old houses really got cold in the winter. David's bedroom was downstairs and the rest of us slept upstairs. Our heat was an oil heater in the front room. All the windows were single pane and there was no insulation. A lot of times, when it got really cold, we would just drag the mattresses down from upstairs and everybody would sleep in the front room. In Buckley when it got cold usually the wind was blowing too and the bedrooms were like refrigerators. Anyway, I did like living there and we were just about 3 blocks from town. Almost all the stores, the doctor's office, the dentist's office, the library and the post office were on the one main street. Just like in Moses Lake, there was no mail delivery. A lot of times I would send David to the Post Office, even before he was in Kindergarden. The soil was very fertile there and we always had a nice little garden out back. There was garbage delivery. The water and garbage bill came together. We had a flat rate. No matter how much water you used, the bill was always the same. The alley was along the back of our property. Richard used to love being out there when the garbage truck came. One time the garbage truck driver backed over my garbage can and flattened it. Richard came rushing into the house to tell me before the driver could get to the door. The driver brought me a new garbage can the next day.