DECEMBER 2023 NEWSLETTER
December 2023 NEWSLETTER When I was a ten-year-old boy, we played in the lot next door to our home. We called it the foundation. I don’t know why it was dug out, but my friends and I spent many hours in that foundation playing cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians and even make-believe war games with real toy guns. My brother, Edward, came home from the war and built a house on that foundation. He made that house from the foundation to the roof all by himself. I was ten years old and in his way constantly. But I did learn a few things by watching Him. First, he got into that foundation with a pick and shovel, squared it all up, dug what he called the footer, and poured cement. He had to have the footers level, then laid the cinder blocks on top. He laid three blocks, leveled three more, and leveled those all the way across. That went fast, and he started laying the bricks on th