Figure 1.--Here my sister and I are working on our vegetable garden in fron of our house in 1945. You can see our home in background. Notice our waggon. |
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Our parents at first just had an apartment at the hospital, then a house was built to accopmodate the employees of the hospital and my parents had an apartment there. Then they bought a piece of land and decided to build their own house. That was in 1931. So, I was born in that house. The house was about 10 walking-minutes distance from the hospital. It was a pleasant little home. We had our own vegtable garden which was very important during the War. Notice my suspenders here. The suspenders were made out of leather. The two front-straps joined into one in the back. Where the belt is, there were loops at each end of the suspesnders through which the belt could be slided. As I was a very skinny kid and had no hips, my pants were always falling down. So, my parents made me wear this contraption. I did not want to wear the traditional suspenders made out of rubber. These suspenders also allowed me to wear my scout-belt. I was proud of my Scout built belt and wanted to wear it even when not wearing my Scout uniform. Here I am with my sister gathering snow. During the winter there were heavy snow storms. After a while the snow and ice slid off the roof form our house very frequently and shook up the whole house. Where it came down, was right ion top of our father's prize rose-garden. So, in the spring he usually asked us to remove the remaining snow and ice blocks to accelerate the growth of his favored flowers. We generally just dumped the snow somewhere down the hill. Notice our waggon which was used for all kinds of purposes.
Voute, Tom. E-mail message, May 18, 2006.
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