Yesterday out of sheer boredom at work I downloaded Google Earth and started looking up my childhood homes. I started with my very first home in Stockton, California. I grew up on a shady lane across the street from a beautiful park that had an amazing playground with a gigantic sandbox, swings, slides, monkey bars and all the trees you could ever want to climb. My backyard was full of scented roses, lemon and orange trees, camellia bushes by the bathroom window and all the wonderful flowers my grandmother could plant. I spent hours in that yard playing dolls and swimming in my pool. It was heaven.
As I typed in the address yesterday I realized it's been near 30 years since I've seen this house. What would the yard look like? What would the neighborhood look like? The park is still there although there is some strange un-named municipal building tucked over in one corner now. It seems so much smaller than when I was a child. Apparently my old neighborhood isn't so great any longer. It's a low rent district with a shady batch of residents judging from the news paper articles that I looked up (yes I was really bored yesterday).
The worst part was when I zoomed in on my old house I could see nothing in my old back yard except a patch of yellowed grass and cemented over flower beds. I realize that California has drought issues but come on!!!! Even the landscaping along the driveway is gone.
I kind of wish I wouldn't of looked now. I like keeping the thought in my mind that the house is exactly the same way I left it. The garden is over grown with gigantic lush tree like bushes and the park is full of laughing children.
I need to find some work fast and get off this internet thing is what I need to do.
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