The circle from the den to the kitchen to the dining room to the good living room and back to the den without stopping, through the 4 doorways, do you remember?

One of my earliest memories of all is Pop laying on a couch along one wall in the den and I think I must have been being stripped down to take a bath or something because I was naked, nary an item of clothing on and I was on the run! I was in the circle and running around and around laughing so much and Pop bellowed out that I was “naked as a jaybird” and I can hear it clear as day. As I recall this memory, I feel sad for making her have to chase me. I also remember Pop puffing on a cigar while lounging on the couch and he’d not even have to look and lift his arm above his head and flick his ash into the ashtray that was there on the little table. Well, not always in the ashtray, I think I remember Gam squawking at him over missing the ashtray to tell you the truth.

Her utility room had an indoor clothesline hung in it! She had sheets of wax paper and tin foil drying, and plastic baggies turned inside out so she could reuse them. Thats where her hats and bonnets for working in her flowers hung too. I remember one in particular but there were a few…and aprons.

Right there in the utility room was a little bathroom that smelled entirely of LAVA soap. Pops bathroom. He needed that special soap for his working hands, I guess. I remember LAVA soap being in that bathroom long after though.

Someday I will write my remembers room by room…