" I Grew up in a Treehouse"

                                          by Bill Culpeper

                                 Episode 6

 

                     ''Snowflakes and Water drops"

 

I woke up one really freezing cold morning and looked out from my Treehouse. Everything was covered in snow. That was the very first snow I had ever seen! I could not believe what I was seeing.

Everything was so quiet and so white. The sun was shining making the snow extra bright. My Treehouse had never been so bright with light. My treehouse felt more like a Lighthouse.

As the sun began melting the snow, the windows in my Treehouse slowly became fogged up and then a huge big drop of water began running down the windows.

I could not see anything other than those giant water drops racing each other to see which one would make it to the bottom first.

There were so many water drops racing each other I never could figure out which ones reached the bottom first.

 

                         Episode 7

 

                     "The Sound of War''

 

I remember the celebration on Broad Street the afternoon World War Two was finally over. Cars driving by were honking their horns and people were waving their arms from their cars screaming all kinds of things. Everyone was so happy it seemed.

It was the middle of the afternoon and I was taking a nap in my Treehouse. It took me awhile to wake up that warm April afternoon in 1945 . I did not know what had happened.

Then, that  air raid siren on top of the LaGrange Banking Company building began to wail. As usual, I got sick to my stomach and had to throw up on my bed.

I did not ever want to be in my Treehouse when that siren was wailing.

I came downstairs and saw that things were ok and that people were really happy and not afraid that we might be bombed by the Germans.

 

                                Episode 8

 

                        ''President Roosevelt''

 

One warm summer day my Mother came into my Treehouse. She carried a red coat, a white shirt and blue pants and Buster Brown white shoes. I was 5 years old then.

She dressed me and we went downstairs and all the way out to the end of our driveway next to the street. Then I could see lots of cars coming down Broad Street with red lights on them flashing. Then a man driving a little black car with no top came by me . Mother told me to wave and wave at that man.

He waved back to me.

It was President Roosevelt.