It used to be a lot bigger

[peternap]

We went back to my home for Thanksgiving today. Every year I worry it may be my Dad's last so we've changed our tradition the last few years and had dinner with him and my brother and sister (and their families).

We got there a couple of hours early so I looked at a few of my old haunts.

This was the first wall I ever climbed and where I taught myself to rappel. It was a lot taller then

[Redoverfarm]

Peter I think the childhood memories and images shrink with age.  I have noticed what I thought was huge in my childhood mind turned out to be just normal today when I look at it.  Glad you were able to spend a day with your Dad. 

[peternap]

Yep...memories are always bigger. I was about 10 and terrified of heights. Even then I didn't like not being able to do something so I took about 100 feet of hardware store rope and headed to the river where the bluffs were. Took me two hours to get up the face of it and I was shaking like a leaf at the top. I tied off and must have looked like a monkey on a string coming down....

But it started an interest in rock climbing I still have. It also cured the fear of heights

[glenn kangiser]

hmm I thought this was going to be about a TSA patdown....

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

I understand that feeling.  We went to the house I used to live in from age 3 until 4th grade here a while back.  I remember it was sprawling and the rooms large, but when we walked through it felt SO small!!  Part of it was that they'd lowered the old ceilings down to something like 7 ft. to make it more efficient to heat and cool, but I remembered the days when it was unairconditioned and a big swamp cooler sat under the carport, but we only used it on low humidity days that were well over 100 degrees.  The HUGE bay window in my parents' room that my dad installed just seemed like a normal size window now.  No old hole in the living room linoleum hidden by a rub mom crocheted anymore, either.   

[rick91351]

   snip .... and a big swamp cooler sat under the carport,  ......   snip

So you had a swamp under the car port?   Or where was the swamp you were trying to cool and why?     Sorry Homes just had to get that in there somehow

Blessings;
Rick