Recent photo of my brother Richard in front of Grandpa John and Grandma Lorene’s house in Ottawa, Kansas. They built this cottage with its cat-slide roofs in the midst of the Depression. Here, they raised five children, tended gardens, cooked and baked and played piano, presided over holidays with crowds of grandchildren, showed a hundred slide shows of their travels, wrote a thousand letters, read a million books, and moved out only to go to a nursing home. This place houses nothing but happy memories for my brothers and me. Glad to see it looking so tidy and well-loved.
October 01, 2010
3 Responses received
lindacopy says:
October 1st, 2010 at 8:39 am
October 1st, 2010 at 8:39 am
What a charming home! I never heard of a cat-slide roof before. Makes me want to revisit the houses I grew up in, and others that I spent time in as a child.
jennifer says:
October 2nd, 2010 at 3:32 pm
October 2nd, 2010 at 3:32 pm
I love the cat-slide term – saw it in a book on early 20th century architecture.
Jane says:
October 5th, 2010 at 9:12 am
October 5th, 2010 at 9:12 am
Happy memories indeed, particularly the one of Aaron Bean (sp?) shuffling around on the lawn while Grandpa peers from the front window.
