22 Years Ago Today...
Feb. 6th, 2006 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvis...my house burned to the ground.
I was in high school at the time, just beginning a new semester in grade 10. I came home with a typewriter I signed out from school so that I could work on re-writing & editing articles for an edition of the school newspaper, and arrived at the farm to find a black smoking crater where my house used to be.
Undaunted, I set up the typewriter in the barn with my notes and completed the newpaper edition on time that night.
I was in high school at the time, just beginning a new semester in grade 10. I came home with a typewriter I signed out from school so that I could work on re-writing & editing articles for an edition of the school newspaper, and arrived at the farm to find a black smoking crater where my house used to be.
Undaunted, I set up the typewriter in the barn with my notes and completed the newpaper edition on time that night.
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Date: 2006-02-06 04:44 pm (UTC)The good news of the story is that we were already in the process of building a new house nearby so while all of us were suddenly homeless --us kids were boarded by various neighbours in the community-- the insurance money vastly accelerated the construction. We were all back together again in the new house by April.