While i was in Mississippi i went back to the home i remembered the most about. While we lived here i started to school. My first year was in the primer. I suppose this is similar to what we call kindergarten now. Anyway, the place looked a lot different than when i was there several years ago as shown in previous postings. It looks as if someone may be living there now since the grass was mowed and the yard area was cleaned up. Previously when my wife and i went there before i had remembered a porch cross the front of the house which was not there. Since the place has been cleaned up i spotted the brick pillars in front where that porch was supposed to be. Some time over the past 70 plus years the porch was removed and the front entrance moved to the side. My previous visit, we had to crawl under the fence to take pictures. Now the gate is still there but is chained up. I was not going to climb over the gate but i sure wanted to know who was living there. The thought occured to me that maybe someone who was displaced because of Katrina had moved there, maybe so maybe not. Anyway, i was pleased to see the old place still standing after all these years. I sat there thinking about all the things that my older brothers and myself got into that probably caused our mom a lot of misery. Maybe next year i will go back one more time since there is some interest by Cindy and George to see where i spent my early childhood. I suppose the older you get the more nostalgic some get and look to the past. There is a lot of contentment in looking back and remembering the good times you've had. Maybe we dwell too much sometimes on the bad times and fail to enjoy those things along the way that have helped us the most. I can't complain, i have had a good trip thus far.