TELL ABOUT THE HOUSES YOU LIVED IN DURING YOUR CHILDHOOD. DO YOU REMEMBER THE ADDRESSES, PHONE NUMBERS? 2436 Murrell Rd., Santa Barbara, CA

It was yellow when I was a kid and there was a trellis in front of the front door which had bougainvillea growing up it. There were two trees between the bricks on the parkway. I see from this photo that the sidewalk shifted and needed some blacktop to even it out. A sidewalk rearing up like that usually is caused by a tree root. My bedroom window is the one on the right. The one on the left is the master bedroom. There weren’t the cute, groomed trees by the house or the little fence. There was at the corner of the house near the master bedroom a huge pampas grass plant. The calla lilies grew along side the right side of the house along the narrow pathway leading to the back yard (where the garbage cans were stored.) When they first bought the house it was a full garage. Dad took about 7’ of it out to enlarge the living room. Looks like they’ve left it that way. They bought the house for $14,000. As of August 2006 it’s worth $2 million in the way-skewed California real estate market.