green grass

here is something that i was thinking about the other day. here is a picture of our "spacious" backyard. our 10 feet off of the back porch is nothing compared to the 40ish that we had back in the heathfield days.

so lets set this up first.

• england, no one can really remeber except mom and dad. only 3 kids at the time.
• kaiser - i think we had a back yard, then it went to some open field as i remember. so maybe that was the first time.
  
• south salem department - if the backyard was anthing like those living arangements then it would have been stacked on top of each other. i dont really know how we made it living there. probably a little back yard but not much there, i do remeber red dirt.
  
• mobile home living - apart from preparing luke to go to TN on his mission the only point to this hospice was to make us feel that when we moved into the partially finished house that it would seem like it was 5 billion square feet in comparison to the trailer. when your home has wheels on it and it has not moved in a month then you really should not be residing in it. that place was a trip. i remeber there being rooms with stuff in them, and people sleeping around like it was a roady in the powder blue V-dub (roll it and drop it into gear). the back yard in that place was a 45 degree slope to trees and brush. whoever put those three single wide's on that ledge was just wanting a large wind to come along and blow them down.
  
• heathfield - here we were able to enjoy the new dirt mounds. who can ever say that in their life. i rember a time when a grader came up and moved some of that dirt around the backyard. i think that we all had our hopes rise in thought that we would have some lawn some day, a riding lawn mower that we could take turns mowing the acre of green grass. ok so maybe i would bully my way into riding and mowing until i got tired but it was a hope that i am sure we all had. grass. instead we had weeds, not just one or two but variations of them, green one and some with thistles and so on. there was imo-grass, stuff that looked like grass, could have been grass but because the whole place did not have it i dont think that it would fall under the lawn catagory.

so my point is that i believe that we are the first ones to have a finished backyard. i am not counting some apartment that we have all lived in at college or after college. nothing against our up-bringing or lack of being able to running around barefoot in the backyard on a hot summers night, but let me know if i am wrong. some of us can think about living with someone or in someones house who had a back yard, but i am talking on our own. 28 years old and a useable backyard. just thought i would throw that out there.