This week's edition will feature me! We are currently under a Level 2 snow emergency and I am very concerned school will be cancelled tomorrow.
This was a house we lived in for one year on Woodlawn. We moved there from a Cape Cod style house across the street. (not pictured) And a year later we moved across town to this house.
Why did we move so often? I'm not sure. My mom liked to look at houses for sale and we were constantly putting our house up for sale and moving to a different street in our small town. My parents were not "flippers". They did not remodel or update houses, they just moved. Once, in my Sunday School class of six first graders, two of the students lived in houses I used to live in.
Mr Merry and I bought our house in December of 1978 and still live here.
Very sweet photos and Miss Merry, my family moved to different houses in our small town too before finally moving to our farmhouse in the fall of 70 where they stayed 15 years. But wow, you've been in the same place since 1978! That's awesome 👌
ReplyDeleteYou always have a wonderful smile on your face! I think we moved twice that I can recall and my parents never bought a house, they always rented.
ReplyDeleteI have some photos from the big winter storm of 1965 of us trying to shovel out our driveway that had feet of snow on it. My dad took a shot of my sister who was sitting in a hole resting. She wasn't into shoveling very much.
Fun photos, thanks !
Hopefully the snow doesn't cause too much trouble this time!
What an interesting "hobby" your mom had.
ReplyDeleteHow fun to look back at those pictures. I'm a stay put kind of person too. We're still in the same house we bought in 1991.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of moving. I can't imagine packing and moving often, although I have moved more than you have. But not lately.
ReplyDelete". . .As for THEE and ME, we like to STAY PUT." That just flashed into my mind as the last line of a lovely poem---perhaps several echo lines, if I get carried away with rhymes.
ReplyDeleteI KNEW we were long-lost Sister-girls. My people are forbidden to THINK the "M" word, for I have not one drop of Nomadish blood, no matter what the DNA helices try to say. When we moved to our town when I was four, my next M was WAY later, to a college dorm, and thence to a little country house when I married. When we built the Pink House in the seventies, we wheelbarrow M'ed just around the corner of the gravel drive---surely THAT doesn't count---even my Weddin' China and Crystal made the trip by hand.
But long years later, when I met Chris, I can count ELEVEN M's in our life, even for just a Summer at Scout Camp and to and fro for his Changes of Command at his new units. And now, far-far from the hot Climes of my Raisin'---here I sit, twenty-seven years later, snowed in by a blizzard NOT so much longed for, for the previous one has yet to let go several bergs out beneath the boxwoods. And I love it here.
Our Jersey contingent is being battered as we speak, and our Mississippi duo has finally got that roof repaired and another car bought. We love this little house, made into an actual TWO if need ever be, and hope whatever far-future dwellers fall in love with it as well enjoy it as we have and are.
You stay warm and well. I love you, too, faraway friend, and I think our connection is more than our mere Thread-Dread. And you're going to LOVE your New Eyes!!! I've had mine for seven years, and still thrill at the wonder of it.
Dear Miss Merry, such a lovely post. Beautiful and heartwarming photos. 💕
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing.
What fun photos! Interesting that your Mom liked to move and you do not…well maybe you do but you haven’t!
ReplyDeleteI don't move either. Been here since 1995 -- my first house! I loved your childhood photos. What a darling little girl you were. I hope you won't have to do extreme child minding if there is a snow day, considering you are still recuperating yourself. Please let someone help you.
ReplyDeleteDennis and I were just saying that if his job hadn't moved us from Omaha to Spokane in 1993, we would probably still be in the house we bought in 1986. We loved that house. Our first house was built in 1894. We bought it in 1978 and it was a money pit. We finally gave up and moved in 1986 to what we were sure would be our forever home. It wasn't to be though.
ReplyDeleteLoved seeing your photo throughout the moves. :-)
Blessings and hugs,
Betsy
You were a very cute little kid. :-) And brave to tackle trying to shovel that much snow!
ReplyDeleteIt seems like some people just like moving. We're more like you. We've been here since 2010, and have no plans to move.