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Nov20

Random Thoughts

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Random Thoughts

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1. Back when I was a kid, there in our neighborhood across the street from us, was a family with three boys. They were okay I guess, just regular kids doing regular kid type things. But the older lady next door to us didn’t like them at all. Any excuse to accuse the boys of doing something naughty, she would. She’d rant and rave about those delinquent boys, and they better stay out of her yard,and on and on she went. The boys didn’t go out of their way to aggravate her or anyone as far as I knew. But the one phrase I remember the most that she always said was … “I’m calling the FBI on them”.  The FBI stands for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and I don’t think they’d come out to arrest the boys for being kids.

Funny though, I didn’t know what that was, the FBI, because I was just a kid myself, and I always thought she was saying she was going to call the ‘Yippie Yi’. That didn’t make sense at all. The only Yippie Yi I’d ever heard of was in relation to cowboy’s hollering yippie yi, to the cattle they were herding. Home, home on the range kind of deal was what I was thinking about. What…was the yippie yi going to come round up the boys like cattle… and then what? Actually nobody really worried about it or paid her any attention when she started ranting.

But, I still remember. I don’t remember when exactly I finally figured out it was the FBI she was talking about, though. 🙂

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Nov16

Neighbor Houses # 4 & 5

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Neighbor Houses # 4 & 5

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These are my thoughts and memories of the houses in our neighborhood when I was a kid.

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Owen’s House:

This house was directly across the street from ours. It was an okay house, sort of an orange wood frame house. I’m not sure how many bedrooms, as I can’t remember ever being in it.

Funny thing though, they had another house, a big white house, right behind this front by the street house. I don’t know why, unless the back house was original, then they built the front house? Anyway they both were there.

They had three older boys and a little girl. We didn’t have much to do with this family, but the lady and the little girl would sometimes come over for coffee with my mom. The boys were rowdy and not many got along with any of them. In fact, our other neighbor was always calling the police on them for getting in her yard. She’d also say she was going to call the FBI on them. But, I didn’t know what that meant, and I heard what she said as Yippie Yi. Like some kind of western cattle drive? Yippie Yi get along little dogies? haha 🙂

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Couch’s House:

Next door to the Owen’s house was the Couch’s house. It was very small stucco, set way back on the property lot so you could hardly know it was there. They had at least one older girl that I know of, and she was pretty, but didn’t hang out with us kids.

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