Day 1 - Intro
4 Sep 2010 14:53![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nephirI was born, as were most folks, to a typical family. We were 3 kids in total, with dogs, cats and other assorted pets through out the years.
Where my family kinds went askew was in little things:
When I was 12 for Valentine's day I received a gun. A rifle to be exact. All of us received one for the holiday including my mother. What makes this a little weird is that we lived in a fairly populous city, and while my father hunted and we ate what he brought home, there really wasn't a place where we lived to go shooting (legally).
It wasn't like we lived on several acres of land where all of us hunted to supplement the family table, instead I lived across the street from the high school from which I would graduate.
Another little family quirk... my dad's family liked to play games, and by games I mean poker and dominoes for money. If more than 3 adults gathered at my grandparents place, cards or domino tiles and the penny banks would come out and the playing would begin. I learned how to shuffle cards and play poker before I learned how to play canasta or other card games.
For a while when I was growing up we lived on a non-working farm. We did have animals to take care of and occasionally slaughter for dinner, but we didn't grow our own vegetables. My grandfather on my mother's side however always had a very large garden that he tended lovingly and he would share the bounty of it with all his many children and grandchildren. To this day nothing tastes as good as home grown tomato sliced and salted and peppered for snacking on.
Growing up was an adventure and it's amazes me to this day that I survived to adulthood.
So, tell me something in return about yourself if you are reading this. Family need not respond unless they just want to!
Where my family kinds went askew was in little things:
When I was 12 for Valentine's day I received a gun. A rifle to be exact. All of us received one for the holiday including my mother. What makes this a little weird is that we lived in a fairly populous city, and while my father hunted and we ate what he brought home, there really wasn't a place where we lived to go shooting (legally).
It wasn't like we lived on several acres of land where all of us hunted to supplement the family table, instead I lived across the street from the high school from which I would graduate.
Another little family quirk... my dad's family liked to play games, and by games I mean poker and dominoes for money. If more than 3 adults gathered at my grandparents place, cards or domino tiles and the penny banks would come out and the playing would begin. I learned how to shuffle cards and play poker before I learned how to play canasta or other card games.
For a while when I was growing up we lived on a non-working farm. We did have animals to take care of and occasionally slaughter for dinner, but we didn't grow our own vegetables. My grandfather on my mother's side however always had a very large garden that he tended lovingly and he would share the bounty of it with all his many children and grandchildren. To this day nothing tastes as good as home grown tomato sliced and salted and peppered for snacking on.
Growing up was an adventure and it's amazes me to this day that I survived to adulthood.
So, tell me something in return about yourself if you are reading this. Family need not respond unless they just want to!
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Date: 5 Sep 2010 00:34 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 5 Sep 2010 01:18 (UTC)My sibs and I were all born in the same city, just different hospitals (or in the case of my brother a 'maternity home') but none of us are there. The closest is my brother who is still in the state, but I'm in Washington state and my sister is in Florida so I guess were a little nomadic as well.
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Date: 5 Sep 2010 06:58 (UTC)I've never lived in one place as long as I did the first 11 years of my life, when we sold out house and moved to a mobile home. I'll finally break that streak if we are still here in 2014. Since then, before this place, the longest I lived anywhere was 4 years; we've been here since 2002.