Post #50

 Meet Mr. and Mrs. Hansen, our lovely next door neighbours at what looks to be maybe the mid '90s.  

Obviously this is my wife's parents, Elmer and Martha.  There are some changes since this particular period, probably the most glaring one being Kiwanis Pool still standing at the right of the picture.  Over the years that pool became an issue of neighbourhood safety and it closed down, with the newly opened YMCA to pick up the slack.

The house that the Hansens occupied from 1985-present day was once the McGivney house.  I kind of knew those folks.  They were in the 'hood with the rest of us, but not quite in the same group as mine.  Mary lived there, who turned out to be a co-worker of Janice's at the drug store up the street.  She tragically passed not long ago.  I believe her brother Ronnie, also.  I remember I mowed the lawn for Mr. McGivney a few times.  It was difficult!  A lot of hills and uneven ground for a skinflint teenager to push a small lawn mower around on.  I mow it today now for Martha.  Thank God we have a self-propelled mower or I'd have taken a heart attack long ago.  A few times before we got that mower, I'd taken to heat exhaustion where I couldn't cool down.


It must have been Janice that took this.  Elmer passed in '15, however, but Martha is soldiering on.  We promised Martha when he passed that we'll never leave our house next door while she's there.  



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