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For the last few weeks I have been having computer (iPad) problems. Rich got me a new one, hoping that would solve the problems. It has, for the most part, except that my blogsy app wasn't working. Yesterday Cherstin was able to help me get it up and running. Woohoo! So I am going to restart my family history endeavor on Sunday evenings.

The part of the second question that I anticipated answering earlier is, "Describe your home, your neighborhood, and the town you grew up in."

I got to thinking about all the places I have lived...born in Massachussetts, moved to California where I lived with my Mom and Grandmother while my Dad was in Korea. Both prior to his shipping out and after he came home we lived in Fort Ord and Seaside near Monterey briefly. When Dad was discharged we moved to Provo while Dad was a student at BYU and lived in Wymount (student housing). When Dad graduated we moved to Salt Lake City and we lived in a duplex on Delno Drive (4900 South 400 East) and then moved into what would become the family home at 546 Delno Drive.

In 1966 we moved to Augsburg, West Germany (specifically the Lechhausen suburb) for two years, before moving

north to the Kaiserslautern, West Germany area (in the Rheinland-Pfalz) where we lived for 6 years...first in Spesbach for two years and then in Huetchenhausen. I returned to the states and moved in with my Grandmother Roskelley for the first semester of my senior year. She lived in the Cottonwood area and I attended Olympus High School. My Grandmother was anxious to move to a place of her own and found a home in Springville and we moved there for the second term of my senior year. Homesickness plagued me terribly and it also became evident that I was not going to be able to graduate as I had German and American credits but neither system would accept the others' credits. I returned home after Christmas and took the GED that January and applied to college.

I moved back to the states in the fall to attend Ricks College (now BYUI). I was there one year and then transferred to BYU in Provo the following fall.

Rich and I married following my sophomore year and we moved to Sumter, Sout Carolina. We first lived in Marpat trailer park, just a couple of miles from the base, and then moved on base on Rosebud Street. We were there just over a year and then were transferred to Woomera, Australia. There we first lived in a studio flat and after a few months we moved to a two bedroom home on Booromi Street.

From Australia we moved to Hill Air Force Base and lived in Layton, where we purchased our first home on Marilyn Drive. We were there nearly four years and built a home in Layton but during this time period the interest rates climbed so high so fast that we couldn't really afford the payment from the time we started building to the time we closed. Our realtor bought that house and we moved to Salt Lake City (west of Kearns in the Copper City subdivision on Copper City Circle) when Rich was transferred to the recruiting squadron at Ft. Douglas.

In 1983 we were transferred back to the Kaiserslautern area of Germany and lived in Siegelbach on Hauptstr. and then in Schwedelbach on Schulstr.

We returned home in 1988 to Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter and moved on base on Mulberry Street. As Rich was facing medical discharge we took the opportunity to prepare for that and moved off base to Stamey Livestock. When that house burned down we moved to Edgehill Road.

We then moved to Charleston and lived in the town of Summerville on Sylvan Terrace for a little over a year before moving to El Centro, California. We lived on Yucca for the first year and a half and then moved to Wensley Avenue for the remaining 8 1/2 years.

We then moved to Elizabethtown, Kentucky for two years and lived on Bittersweet Dr.

Following Kentucky we moved to the Denver area, first living on Harmony Parkway in the Harmony Park Subdivision, then moving to Julian Court in Westminster, and then to 118th Place when Wanda and Robert sold their home to Desi and Mike.

We then moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, living first in the Westgate Apts. and then moved to our present address on Capital Circle.

Hmmm...that's just the chronology of my life. Rich's is a little different...at least at the beginning of his life (being born in Bismarck, North Dakota). His parents moved to Denver not long after he was born and then on in to Anaheim, California. He lived there most of his life before joining the Air Force. Of course he did boot camp in Lackland, Texas and then tech training in Denver. From there he moved to Ramstein in Germany and from there our storyline merges...except that when we lived in Denver he had a stint in South Carolina in Greenville and he came to Oak Ridge ahead of me too.

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It's been a crazy week around here! First, I really am so grateful that Dan's surgery went as well as it did. He's getting stronger everyday and I know it won't be too long and he'll be back to be carefree...as least as carefree as you can be having had two back surgeries in less than three years!

So - on Wednesday of last week I told Rich that I was concerned about the van - it was jerking the wheel to the right every now and then. Rich decided to drive it to therapy to check it out, but he barely got out of the driveway when he experienced what I had tried to describe. After he got home from therapy we took it in to the shop. By Friday we were able to pick it up after paying $300+ for new ball joints and constant velocity joints! Ugh! Later that day I walked into the garage and it appeared that we had a burst pipe. The weather had been really cold and there was water everywhere. Rich turned the water off to the fridge and we thought we'd investigate further in a day or two when temps warmed. By Sunday I wasn't feeling well and so I didn't go to church. By Monday it was apparent that there was some kind of problem with the water heater. Water was pouring out of the bottom of it...but Monday was a holiday so we decided to wait until Tuesday to call a repairman. Tuesday Rich went out to the garage to make access for the repairman a hen he noticed that water was all over the garage floor again...this time it became apparent that it was because the fridge wasn't working. I spent the afternoon cleaning out the fridges and trying to find places for things in the other fridge or freezer...joy! That evening and $1600 later we had hot water! Hallelujah!!!

Yesterday we decided to check out a second hand appliance dealer for a fridge. I know - there's only two of us but we really do use two fridges...possibly because our indoor fridge is a nightmare to work with. We found a good fridge for $700+ and today Julio came and helped Rich get rid of the old fridge and pick up the new one. Tonight we're almost back to normal! We had thought we'd trade the new (to us) fridge with the one inside but the space is 1/2" too small. Julio cut a piece of the wall board out to see what was in it...we were hoping it was just dead space...but it isn't...it has duct work in it. We're hoping that at a future date we can move the wall out by a couple of inches and make the switch.

On the bright side - I did get Adam's quilt done and have fabric to start Milly's blessing dress!