Monday, October 13, 2014

Monday Memories

Hey, y'all! There's a new meme in town and it's all about sharing memories! Y'all know how much I appreciate memories so you can imagine how excited I was to hear of a meme all about writing our memories! I, of course, missed the first one but I'm just going to combine the first and second memories together in this post.

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Retired Not Tired Memory Monday


The first prompt was: My First Memory

My first memory is being in my room in the evening and watching my parents outside in the front yard taking care of some yard work. I was probably three years old and I remember looking at my wallpaper and loving it so much. It was red with little flowers on it. When I think back on that wallpaper now, I think the best way to describe it is like calico fabric. Something like this:


Red has always been my favorite color. It remains so to this very day. If I'm not mistaken, only one wall in my room had the wallpaper on it. The other walls were probably a muted white of some shade. But I can't swear to that. I just remember looking at the wall that was to the right of the window and that's where I see, in my mind, the red wallpaper. 

Not a particularly interesting memory. But I did love that wallpaper. Oh, and I'm petty sure I had been sent to bed early but, for some reason, I think it had to do more with an situation between my parents rather than something I had done wrong. Who knows. 


Today's prompt is: My First Home

If this is about my first home after marriage, then I'm spot on. Otherwise, I need to start all over. Ha!

The first home after marriage was a true life hovel in the back of my in-laws' landscape nursery. I hated living there and was glad it only lasted two years. It was the worse place I've ever lived in my life from beginning to now. When it rained, the little horrid place flooded. No matter how many improvements I tried to make, it was just awful. I don't even think I have any pictures of it because, who, in their right mind, would take pictures of such a place? I should have recognized that little hell hole as the red flag it was, but I didn't. I would share the good points of that thing, but there just aren't any.

Anyway, y'all probably get the point that it was a horrid place to live. My second home is the home in which I still reside. And, though it is small, it is a much nicer, cozier place and was a great house in which to raise a family.

Ok, that should catch me up!

Y'all head on over to Retired, Not Tired and join in this fun meme full of memories.

14 comments:

  1. I forgot about this new meme. I want to join in, so will have to catch up tomorrow. I've had several "first" homes. Not sure which one to pick for this meme. Hmmmmm.....

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    1. I did too. That's why I had to combine the first two. My mush brain these days... I wasn't sure about that either.

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  2. Does not sound like a fun place to live! Let's hope that it's not true about 'history repeating itself.' :-) I think many of us have stories like that in our past, though. Like your earliest memory. Maybe that's why you love red today! Reminds me of one of my favorite murder mysteries: 'Sleeping Murder,' an Agatha Christie movie starring Joan Hickson. You can probably get it on YouTube if you're into that sort of thing - all about the wallpaper, you see. LOL (yes, I know, I know, but it's how my brain works.)

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    1. I do love mysteries and red wallpaper! I'll check it out. I hope history doesn't repeat itself on the first home issue. That place was awful.

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  3. With all your complaints about the heat, I expected your first memory would be heat related. But then maybe there was a cool breeze coming in that window?

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    1. Maybe. But then, I don't recall it ever being as hot then as it is now. And I don't recall noticing the heat as I do now. And we didn't live at the coast, we lived in the foothills. AND...LOL

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  4. Well, hey there! I am very happy for you that you got out of that place!!! (I went for the first home after marriage too since it was my first, not my parents.)

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    1. I, too! But the one where we raised the girls is a good one. :)

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  5. What a great first memory! That first house must have been just miserable. :(

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    1. The first house was miserable. I'm glad my time there was relatively short. Sorry I didn't get to visit with you while you were here. Did you enjoy the trip? Have you blogged about it yet?

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  6. I should have done both like you did. I have a memory from maybe 4 years old. I decided to show the homes I grew up in and also the house we bought after getting married. It sounds like that was a terrible place to live and I'm so glad you got out of there.

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    1. It was horrid. I'm grateful it only lasted a couple of years. I never took pictures of that place. The ones in my mind are enough.

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  7. I have enough trouble remembering what happened yesterday, let alone remembering my childhood...................lol
    My first home as a baby was with my grandparents, than mum dad & me moved to a house I do not remember, but then we moved to a place I do remember what I remember most was that the house was opposite bushland and I started a fire in the bush with the kid next door...........

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  8. So glad to have you join in. Not memories are going to be good ones. Unfortunately we need some bad to appreciate the good.

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