We lived in a big country style house on three acres at the top of a hill in Woodbine, Md. for ten years, 1988-1998. The following are some of our best memories.
Kacie started kindergarten at Lisbon Elementary when we first moved there and finised elementary school there. Then she went on to Glenwood Middle School and one year at Glenelg High School.
She was involved with the West Howard Swim Team, the Patriots softball team, gymnastics, and we had a trampoline in the back yard that she really enjoyed.
She had quite an elaborate beauty parlor in our basement and kept her friends looking good. Her speciality was doing nails.
Kacie called her dogs Barney Beaver and Sammy Dewdrop. She had a green snake named Wrappie (that wrapped around her arm) a chinchilla named Chloe, and a rabbit named Thumper.
I often observed Kacie doing strange poses on our front lawn. She would stand erect, raise her arms and remain motionless in this position for several minutes. When I finally questioned her about it, she said that she was imitating a tree to fool the cars going past our house. Thereafter, I posed with her many times when we were in the field out front and saw a car coming.
She loved to put on concerts on our front porch for us. She actually started kareoke before it got popular.
The fishing was great. The stream at the bottom of our hill was full of minnows. We used little cheese balls to catch them. Most of them ran about 1 or 2 inches but one day we walked down to the Patapsco River and Kacie caught a monster about 6 inches long near the Woodbine Inn.
We often went to the Enchanted Forest on Rt. 40. We have numerous home movies of Kacie there.
Just about every year, on the evening before starting a new grade, I interviewed and filmed Kacie. I tried to ask her the same questions each time. All of these interviews are collected on one tape so that we can watch her grow up from year to year in about 30 minutes.
And finally, Kacie loved Columbia Mall. We often made the half hour trip because she loved shopping there . She was crazy about stuffed animals and dolls and usually got one each time we shopped.
Those were really good years!
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if you'd be willing, I'm sure I'm not the only one who would love to see those home movies
I too would love love lovvvve to see them. Perhaps when you make a trip up to Maryland we could do a little movie screening : )
I have seen some of them. They are probably the funniest pieces of film I have ever seen. Kacie and I used to joke about one of the videos of her taking swimming lessons and in the video she wanted some cheeto's. Then she said "two bags."
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