Lake Forest Park, Wa

There were squirrels that came up on our back patio to eat nuts we would put out for them.
One of the squirrels bit Sonya. She had been feeding them by hand.
 

 

I had two, maybe three friends in the neighborhood. I remember one was named "Casey". He lived in a very nice house at the bottom of the hill with a fountain and a pond. We would make home-made capes for our action figures to make them look like Superman. Caseys older brother had all the "Pirates Of The Carribean" models, which were popular at the time. I liked the one with the alligator, because I loved alligators.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Casey's brother killed himself after we moved away. He made a mailbox bomb and it blew up in his face. I never saw or contacted Casey after we moved. I wanted to write a letter to him, but my parents talked me out of it.

 

Mom took us to the hobby and craft store in the shopping center in Lake Forest Park and we would get Shrinky Dinks and take them home and make silly things. It was fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walked to school bus w/ friend from down the road. and two Doberman Pinschers were in the road. We went back to my house and made my mom drive us to school.
went to school and wrote a "picture story" about the dogs and even drew a picture of them.

We would break clay off the side of the road and play with it. Took some to school, but it didn't hold up well.

Learned about fables with morals .

Taught we didn't have "special privileges when we visited adjacent classroom for a film or to be read to, etc.

Sarah, was a girl in my grade that decided to call me “Billy-Butt” every single day at lunch, or in line, or wherever she saw me. God I hated her. “Billy-Butt. Billy-Butt. Billy Butt, Butt Butt.”

 

My first day at that school , I went to the playground after lunch. I saw three boys with a girl cornered against a fence, and they were lifting her dress up. It struck me that the boys here were super-mean. There were a lot of kids, more than I had been to school with before.

 

We had neighbors that would steal gas from a gas can we kept under the car port for lawn-mowing.

 

My friend that was closest to my house, showed me a little woodshed in the woods behind his house. We played there. He had a dog that was scary looking, and he told me it was a wolf at first. I believed him and was scared of it. There was also, some kind of well up in those woods, One day we decided to throw toys, and garbage and all kinds of crap into it. We got yelled at by some old man that lived around there. We also rolled spare tires down the hill from my house. That was super-fun, but we could have caused a good wreck or two.

 

I caught a garter snake and put it in a box. It was a pretty neat property we lived on. The house belonged to Ben's ex-wife.

 

In the summer, the hydro-plane races were just over the hill behind our house. They were so loud, Imagined them to be dragons screaming.

 

One night, after dinner, my whole family gathered around and watched in wonder as several UFO's danced and zipped over the lake. They did not move like aircraft, it was spooky and hypnotic.

Ben was in the hospital for Christmas to treat a blood clot.

I got a red, plastic water-rocket for Christmas that year. You would fill it with water, pump it up and press a button and it would shoot up in the air. Often bouncing off the roof, sometimes getting stuck.

We went to see a movie “Cinderella Liberty”. Something about a sailor on shore leave I think.

 

There was a older girl that made fun of me at the bus stop every morning while we waited for the school bus. She was almost Sonya's age. Sonya made her stop.

 

The girl was showing off her body suit to her friends one day. She was unzipping her jeans and I couldn't help but gawk, she yelled at me , lol. I had little interest in females at that time, but it was worth a gander nonetheless. I did think Batgirl was pretty cute though, until she removed her red wig. She was awesome with red hair.

 

A red haired boy in another class decided he would be my bully that year. I should have decked him, but wasn't very aggressive at that time either.

 

Signs of falling behind started appearing, as my teacher held a couple of conferences with my mom. My teacher made smiley-face cards to reward me when I did something positive in a day. I would take it home and collect my "reward" whatever that was. Mom hated that teacher.

 

While I was there, the playground had had a makeover, which included a several pieces, especially a concrete, sea serpent, which is somehow still there, and is visible in the picture below.