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Memory Cloth — Canal House

The Canal House was an old farm house my Grandfather bought for $200 and a cow during the Depression. It had a barn and an out house called Little Egypt. The barn burned down long ago, but as a child I remembered using the outhouse when I was playing out back. The woods started there. We built a tree house in one of the big trees.

We went there every summer. Sometimes our friends came too. It was always a fun and casual place. It had all our old furniture.

There was an old-fashioned claw-foot bathtub with a tiny faucet nozzle. The water came out really hard and fast, so it made a great bubble bath.
I loved baths in it. I rescued the tub and still have it.

Mom gave it to my brother and me when we were in our 40’s. I had plans to make a sculpture garden and grow vegetables.

A few years later my brother needed cash for his business – the only thing to do was to sell it. The new owners tore it down and built a new house.

made 4/22/07

Leslee Nelson