I love Google

I got up at 6:30 this morning and just dug in getting a lot of little chores done.  Everything from ironing a few shirts to baking to cleaning to sorting to computer surfing.  Was going to experiment and try to make a fish loaf out of some kind of fish I bought but don't care for. Catfish maybe? Whatever. It was probably cheap and I'm glad I'm down to the last package. And then Jenni calls and invites me to dinner.  She's a good cook (much better than me) and I always look forward to eating other peoples' dishes.  I'm not all that excited about cooking and baking anymore.  Got other fish to fry. Ha Ha

One project I started on yesterday and will probably be working on all week is to clean up and refile all the pictures I have on my Facebook page "Jefferson County Washington of Yesterday"  I had posted a ton of high school graduate photos and while I originally thought they'd be in separate folders and easy to find, I don't like the way they take up the whole page when you open it up so I'm making new folders and putting pics in under the headings of 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, etc.  I find I'm still going to have to edit some of the pages but I like playing around on the computer so that's fine.

One thing I started looking at online today was places I used to live.  Not the first time I've taken this trip down memory lane but it never fails to entertain me. Below are some of the photos of when I lived there and how much better the place looks now.

This house in SE Portland was a place Sharon Sofie and I rented in 1962. We had the bottom floor but I can't remember a single thing of how it looked inside. Parked out front is my old boyfriend's car that he lent me often so we could buzz around town.  And this is how the place looks now.

                                         Quite a difference, wouldn't you say?

After this place, Mary Gaboury and I shared an apartment in NE Portland.

I do recall the rent was reasonable and the rooms were spacious.  That block is all changed now.

One of the houses that John and I rented in San Pablo, CA (bay area) is this one.

It was a cozy little place with a big back yard with lemon trees. Nice house. Today, it looks like this:

One of the places we rented in Seattle was a little house off Aurora (I think) and it had a big yard too. This was in 1966

I can't even tell for sure now which house was the one we lived in. Of course, it was torn down and rebuilt as they're nothing alike.

One of the most remarkable changes is the house we bought new in 1968 in Kirkland WA. I can't remember what we paid for the 3-bedroom but I'm guessing around $32,000.  This is how it looked then (with an antenna on the roof)

I wish I could find the one picture I have of the very tiny backyard. It was so pathetic.  The house is either for sale now or recently sold and the price was listed at $637,000 to $704,000.  Good lord!

Here's how the rooms look inside and the backyard is especially amazing.

Money makes all the difference.  The old San Juan house in Port Townsend that we lived in during the 1970's and 80s is another example of transformation that is difficult to imagine. I'm thrilled that I got to see it first hand when the owners let me walk through.