The Boxcar House

He bought a "boxcar" and turned it into a home, mom had to wash clothes in cold water so he sold his car to buy her a water heater and walked to work.

This boxcar house was right close to a railroad track.  He bounced out of bed onto the floor one night when the train went by because he'd been in a tornado when he was a kid and thought that was what was happening.

I was about four when we lived by the tracks.  Mom would often take in hobos and feed them breakfast. I remember one man got up after breakfast and his hat stuck to his backside.

I remember Uncle Archie coming to fix something in the attic.  Mom and I were in the living room and I heard this crash.  We went and looked in the kitchen and there were two long boots sticking out of the ceiling.