Hey! It's an anniversary! 26 years!

[dreamshark]

On March 31, 1985, we picked up the rental truck and started moving from Toonerville (on the unfashionable south side of Seward neighborhood) to Dream Park (Kingfield). There was about 8 inches of fresh snow on the ground that morning, over a layer of ice so slick that I seriously wondered for a while if the rental truck actually had brakes. Oy! It was a long, exhausting move in very inclement weather. Thanks so much to everybody that helped. You know who you are.

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[pameladean]

I remember that! Did you have some family members there? Somebody gently mocked the people who complaining about the weather, and I thought he was related to you.

I was just admiring Dreampark afresh at the last Minn-Stf meeting. It is really a gorgeous house.

P.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

The only family members present besides me and Richard were our darling children, then 5 and 2 years old. There might have been a non-fannish friend or two, however. I don't actually remember who was there, truthfully.

[pameladean]

I'd be surprised if you did remember much. I am getting a bit foggy on the details of moving into Blaisdell Poly, and that was only sixteen years ago.

It was someone I didn't know, so possibly a non-fannish friend rather than a relative. The main reason I remember is that when I was helping Eileen move out of Toonerville, later I think, her dad also mocked people who complained about the weather, and I wondered if Toonerville encouraged such people somehow.

P.

Upstairs both ways

[eileenlufkin.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it wasn't my Dad both times? Beth and I moved into Toonerville the day Sharon and family moved out. It was either him or my brother who brought the ice chopper and shovels to break down the snowbanks so we could back the truck up to the house.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

I was thinking, back then my knees were OK, why didn't we help? But when I looked again at the date I knew: Em had arrived only two weeks earlier and had spent much of the intervening time in the hospital and seeing various doctors. And we were trying to figure out how to be parents to two kids only 7-1/2 months apart in age.

Dream Park is a beautiful house and has served your family well, I think.