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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.