Riley's Backyard

That's me & my dad in our backyard LONG before it was Riley's backyard! Katie & Vinnie bought my parents house after they died. My mom & dad bought the little house when it was new, and lived in that house their entire lives. Katie & Vinnie added on to the house, but it's still the same house I grew up in, the same backyard I played in as a kid.I've been trying these past years to go through all my parents photos and find some order to them. This was me, in the backyard with my cousin Larry's dog. How I remember that is beyond me.The best part about all the photos I have, the majority of them my dad wrote some kind of comment on them. Those carefree days as a little kid just entertaining yourself in the backyard, no worries, no stress! I miss those days.There were hours I spent in that backyard, lots of good happy times, even has I got older.Remember when the laundry had to actually be hung up on the clothes line? I wonder if the clothes got a lot of bird poop on them and then you had to start all over again? Sorry, just the way I think. I remember as I got older having to take down the dry laundry down. I hated doing it so I just pulled each piece as hard as I could till it came down off the clothesline. Of course, I broke many clothes pins that way, and of course I got in trouble time and time again. I guess I was just that kind of kid, ornery! Sometimes when I sit out back with Riley at her house now, there are so many memories still there for me. I'm happy my granddaughter is growing up in the house I did, just something kind of special for me!!