Dreemit's World: "My Childhood Home"

Embark on a new adventure with me in my brand new series about the real world in which I live.

Walk, hike, bike, take a motorcycle ride and a road trip, go wine trailing, hit a brewery, come kayaking, jet skiing, and swimming. Through my words and a lens, see the beauty of the Finger Lakes and other fascinating places in New York and beyond!

From The Window of my Secret Childhood Fort-Episode One of Dreemit's World

I'm thinking of this series like a painting, and I'm beginning at the center of the page. The first episode reflects the core of me- a place where I've resonated from the age of ten when we moved to the beautiful Finger Lakes region, all the way to now. And if we are fortunate enough to keep this idyllic slice of paradise in the family, I will resonate with it for as long as I am physically capable of going there.

This next part of the painting would represent the scene that revolves around it. The home base of my formative years.

The last house on a dead end street, before state park land begins.

On the right hand side of the road, just beyond that group of trees is the childhood home of one of my nearest and dearest-represented in Reborn by Macey.

"I'm surprised your parents are okay with this," Marina said to Macey.

Macey smiled her typical mischief smile. "They don’t mind if I drink as long as I'm responsible and I don't get in a car, and since I can walk home from here that’s obviously not an issue."

“Walk? You could crawl home from here,” Anna interjected. Macey’s house was located about a hundred yards away on the lake side of the street.

Which is exactly what she’ll be doing if I make her drinks,” Marina waggled her eyebrows.

You do not want to park a car in this driveway without the parking brake on...unless of course you could use the insurance money.

This deck and stairs combo was built nearly twenty-five years ago. At some point I'll sift through my mom's albums to find a picture of it when it was new.

It is also featured in Reborn. At some point I will take pictures down below, but right now the water level is too high to get any decent ones.

On their second trip down the stairs Anna found herself being lifted into the air from behind.

"Austin, put me down," she laughed.

"Give me that," he took the cooler from her, "as clutzy as you are I would hate to spend your party at the hospital for a broken leg." He mock played falling down the stairs and she made a face at him. He laughed and waggled his eyebrows before jogging down ahead of her.

Not a bad view to walk out to every morning ;)

The woods beside the driveway provided awesome hiding places for manhunt and jailbreak.

I decided to throw in another scene from Reborn...

She decided it was time to find out about some other things. She looked at the roof of her garage and crouched. She jumped…a whole five inches. She frowned and backed up, this time taking a running leap…about a foot that time. Maybe this wasn't something she could do.

But....she imagined she was being chased by someone and had to get away. Concentrating everything she had on it, she ran and leapt once more. She hit the side of the metal roof off balance and started falling backwards. Her arms pin wheeled and she managed to throw her body forward, and then she was sliding down the smooth surface and falling over the side. She landed rather less gracefully than she would've liked. Although she did hit feet first, the momentum carried her backwards and she skinned up her elbows when she fell.

...and one more:

She studied the bloodied scrapes and in seconds they faded and were gone.

Oo-kay...she thought her eyes wide, what have I learned? I can leap high, just need some practice. And I can be hurt, but I heal wicked fast. She felt a smile growing on her face and she heard the screen door open.

She looked up from her butt on the patio and grinned foolishly at Austin who was regarding her warily.

"What are you doing?"

"Well," she said still grinning, "I was testing out my new abilities. I just leapt onto the roof! Granted it took a few tries and I fell off...but I did it! And I scraped myself," she held up her unmarked elbows and his brows came together.

"Yeah, I know, nothing there, I watched it heal! Austin I have super powers, I am like...Bat Woman!" She busted out laughing at the cliche then abruptly stopped. "Oh. I really hope that the whole bat thing is a myth, I don't like the idea of that." She wrinkled her nose.

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This creek, located just behind the garage, runs under the driveway and into the lake. After a few days of rain what appears to be a tame little stream can turn into a raging river.

This is what I would consider just the very beginning of my childhood backyard. At some point I will take you past the lawn, through the field, and into the woods where I spent a large portion of my youth.

This outdoor fire place was hand built by the previous owner out of field stone in the 1950's. We still enjoy it to this day.

And that concludes today's episode of Dreemit's World. I hope everyone enjoyed, and wishing all of you mom's out there a wonderful day!

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