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My friend and I were talking about decks and such and I had the funniest memory of something that happened many years ago. It’s weird how we forget things until something comes up that reminds us of it.

Many many years ago when I was married to my first husband (26 years ago)  we had this beautiful house in Cookstown. The house was old and gorgeous but we really didn’t think it through as it was very far from work in Toronto and having a young child it wasn’t the smartest thing we ever did.

It was haunted too. The basement was the creepiest. One side was completed sealed up. I think it was like 125 years old. No one believed us until they stayed there and heard the footsteps and doors opening and such. My ex woke up once from the couch and the vacuum was going but not plugged in. Everything would go missing and then appear. Once when I was sleeping upstairs I could litterly feel the hair on the back of my neck stand up. It was a strange place. My older boy once from his crib kept pointing to the corner and wouldn’t go to sleep. He finally threw his bottle there and never touched his bottle again. Looking back that was kind of odd that we stayed there with all this going on. I remember it cost so much to heat that we had to stay in one part of the house and let the other parts get cold. Finally we moved back to Toronto. Enough was enough.

Once when we had our family over we were all sitting on the back deck having a good ole’ visit and we were watching the neighbours having a great party hooping and hollering when all of a sudden the earth moved and the deck gave out from under us. It wasn’t a crash type motion it was like in slow motion and if I remember right one leg gave way. We all ended up on top of each other. It was totally hilarious. No one was hurt so it made it even more funny.

The most embarrassing part is that the party that was going on at the other house saw the whole thing so they were laughing their head off too! Like that story doesn’t get my sister-in-law giggling.

Thank goodness it was then and not now. Now it would have been on the internet in two seconds flat from a cell phone or something.

Ahhh memories.

Quote for you:

“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.” Douglas Engelbart

Until we meet again, Sharon

P.S. Oddly enough I was talking to my ex and he said remember the deck we had that fell and he cracked up? I don’t know if I picked up that he was thinking about it or we both thought about it at the same time. What a strange co”winky”dink.

The Psychic Cottage