Our second apartment

Our first apartment served well its purpose of giving us time to find another place. Just a couple of blocks away, we found a nice place that felt like a serious starter home (it was still an apartment, though, in a different complex). The best feature was the view from the front window: a great big lawn . . . that belonged to the church building that was also on the block. There was a driveway running between our building and that lawn, but the driveway didn't show up easily in that view. It gave the illusion of living on a grand manor. It was a good thing we lived there when we did, because a few years later, after we were long gone, the church building had an extra wing added on that ruined the view from that living room window. Another interesting thing about our time there was that Mom's Uncle Jim (Grandmother's brother) moved in to the apartment right upstairs from us while we were there.