Where are you now?

Well ever since I got back from my walk this morning I have trying to put a picture in this post but no matter how I try to do it I can’t make it work.  Do you hear that Steve?  The picture is of my parents and Leonard and Ivy Crocker.  What I would like to do every Friday is ask where someone I used to know is and see if anyone knows.  This Friday I am doing something different.  Leonard and Ivy are the only people that I know that have always been in the same place.  Others may be but I don’t know where they are anymore.  Leonard and Ivy live in Long Beach, CA and have lived in the same house ever since I was born, for those of you not good at math, that is over 50 years.  My parents have moved sometimes and I didn’t know where they had moved to, but the Crockers have always been in the same house.  I remember going to their house many times and asking Leonard to pass me a roll and he would always pick it up and toss it to me.  They were the first people I knew who have a water cooler in their house, in the late 60′s.  They had a above ground pool we would swim in.  Their son, Don, is just a few months older than I am, so we used to hang out together when we lived in La Palma, CA.   I remember driving from Portland to Long Beach once with a friend, cause she had never been to Disneyland and camping in her Monte Carlo.  The first real shower and such came when we stopped at Leonard and Ivys’.  They were very welcoming then and I think they would be today.  I liked spending time with them and would like to introduce them to family.  Although the Ruth Ann and the boys met them for a few moments at my sisters’ house a few years.  Thank Leonard and Ivy for always being in the same place.