Mom just told me that when we lived in Alexandria, in the apartments where the ice cream man came (my recollection) that we (mom and dad and me) were outside talking to a neighbor and I told her she needed to brush her teeth :-O
Mom said the lady smoked and had lot staining on her teeth...:-)

After we lived in Alexandria we moved to Clifton. We lived in a house right next to the train tracks. Next door was a little grocery store, seemed like it was kind of dark and like the isles were narrow. At the front there was a barrel filled with ice and Dr. Pepper and other sodas, the old kind in glass bottles with the clock on them. Seems like my mom sent me to that store to get her a Dr. Pepper sometimes...maybe after I started school there.

Lots of times at night I would get out of bed and and lay on the floor to hear the train coming a long way off and to feel the vibrations.
I think I remember a picket fence around the house and some sort of porch at least in the front. I got my first kitty there, a white long haired cat; for christmas. Snowball. :-)
We had a dog, a boxer, he had dew claws, and had to have them removed, seems like. He died from some kind of cancer in his stomach. I used to ride him in the house, he would take off running and I'd hang on, which was great fun, until he ran through the bottom half of the door and the top half was closed.
My mom had a ringer washer, I remember thinking it was pretty neat as I watched momma putting the clothes in it and cranking them through. We used the clothes line,...
I had a friend that lived behind us whose family used an outhouse, and seems like I remember catalogs in there. I didn't think alot about it then. They also had an hand pump for water, I loved using that pump; taking the handle, pumping it up and down and waiting for the water to come out. It was so wonderful when it finally appeared yaaaaaay!!!
I started school there, I don't remember alot about it, except I seem to remember some sort of winding road going up to the school, like through the woods. I remember snack time and chocolate milk, and rolling out mats to take naps on. I really liked nap time.

My dad was a part time fire fighter. One year the VFD had a Christmas party and the families of the men were invited and the children would be given Christmas gifts. They began to call names and the kids were all excited.. I was excited because they were giving out dolls to the girls and fire trucks to the boys...I kept waiting they called my name...I went forward, they handed me my gift...I looked down and IT WAS A FIRE TRUCK. My name was not a usual name at the time... and they must have thought I was a Daniel. I was so disappointed. More to come on Clifton.