Aloha!
Shalom!
Hello and Good-Bye!
As
many of my regular readers know, I used to attend RPV City Council
meetings and cite how many years, months and days I had been associated
with the home I was brought to, at the age of one-day old, on May 4,
1955.
Tonight, Terri and I spend our last night in the
home on Trudie Drive and tomorrow we embark on a whole new adventure in a
new home in Murrieta, California.
There was a period
of about 22 years when other Wells' lived in the home and there was one
Memorial Day weekend where I worked on all the appliances hook ups when
my sister and my mom switched houses. Two moves on one day, two moving
vans competing for space. That is not something I would do again...I
hope.
A new young family will begin their adventure in
the almost 63-year old house. There are two little boys who will have
the opportunity to search for any 'Matchbox' cars I buried in the upper
portion of the back yard, decades ago.
The memories and
stories I was part of, living in or associated with the same home and
area for so long, could fill volumes. But I won't begin them here.
I will ponder current and future affairs related to 'my home town' in later posts.
What a wonder it was growing up on the east side of The Hill.
Will
I miss living in the home? I highly doubt it because I am so familiar
with the house, the lot, the people and the area, it would take years
and years and years of great changes to have me not 'see' everything
around the area.
I will miss many of the people I have met, along the way. I'll deal with that in later posts, too.
I
don't necessarily believe in luck or being lucky. I will certainly and
happily admit I am the most fortunate fellow on the planet.
Folks
like me are not comfortable saying good-bye and it would be hard to
think I won't be around many, many times in the future.
There
are still folks to talk to, issues that remain important to me and for
us, life is just moving about 88 miles away, from here.
So in the end, March 26, 2013 gave me roughly 57 years, 10 months and 22 days here. What a trip it has been.
