Hills like Kiliminjaro. (Part 1)
The house was a big, barn shaped house set on the side of a hill. Behind it was an old mine. It looked spooky...like a creepy cave out of an old time movie. Now blocked, up, we were forbidden as children to explore it. It was just off the narrow footpath you took to the outhouse set back about 100 feet from the house. Old catalogs and maybe newspapers were torn out and used for toilet paper. Sometimes there were spider webs down in the corners of the outhouse. The big house had a porch on front that had a wooden porch swing on one end. There were also two caneback wooden chairs and a metal 'glider'. The glider was where my grandmother would sit and knit or sometimes break and de-string green beans. Inside the front door was a hall that ran straight to back of the house. Three bedrooms were off the hall on the right. The two in the front had coal burning fireplaces. They were furnished with big feather beds, a chest of drawers and in the corner a...
