One day in the mid 60’s, I walked out behind the house and heard a commotion coming from upstairs. I looked up to where the sound came from and saw a stream of water coming out of the upstairs window. I could barely make out the form of Jimmy standing behind the screen. I yelled "Jimmy”! The stream wiggled around and suddenly stopped. I was laughing too hard to reprimand him too harshly. We still tease him about that. He told us later that he used the window because he did not want to come all of the way downstairs to our only bathroom. Just last month, I found that some of Jimmy’s visiting friends used our window too. At the viewing of his mother's funeral, John Dowell came over to where I sat to express how happy he and his 3 brothers were that I attended their mother's viewing. We chatted for a while and then with a big smile John looked straight into my eyes with his brown eyes simply sparkling. He said; "Lois, there is one thing I want from your house" I could not think of anything he could possibly want. I said "what could that be"? He replied "I want that old rusted upstairs window screen" He did not have to say more. I knew exactly what he meant. Another old funny story;. My father in law said back in the horse and buggy courting days, that many a horse had it's bridal checked while it's leg was dampened at that time too. I will never forget the twinkle in his eyes when he told me that story 
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