home again home a...uh oh

we had been home from the birthing for about 3 weeks when our landlady who lived in the house in front of our garage apt. came to tell me that her 'nephew' was moving back into town - and guess where he was gonna live!
i had no clue in those days that renters had rights - maybe they didn't. i did know that she had seen David for the first time as we were coming into the apt after leaving the hospital.
this cute little house was located in the ryan place neighborhood which i liked and which was almost entirely white. so i am guessing white landlady was quite shocked when she saw us together.
anyway we had to be out she said by the following month. great. we are just settling in as a brand new little family and now we have to move.
the more i thought about it the angrier i became. at that time i did not have the energy to begin to fight it. we had plenty of help when it came time to actually pick up and get out. my Mom even came along and was almost as pissed off as i was. she brought eggs and threw them in the back of the woman's truck as we left.
NOTE: i do not recommend acts like this but i cannot deny i felt an immediate gratification.
Hal and Cherry and their new baby, 2 weeks older than Leif, let us move in with them. they had a lovely house and lots of room but it was hurtful that we had to do that...our little baby had to start his life being evicted. what a world.
we stayed with them about a month and i pounded the streets looking for another place that would be even better and bigger than the little apt. and of course Spirit led me there.
to the house on Wabash. 2 whole bedrooms; interestingly painted - like where there had been pictures hanging they just went around them leaving white squares on several black and blue walls.
it was while we lived there that David went to the dog pound to find his baby boy a pet...no chickens. a dog who needed somewhere to crash. and he thought it was a free service so when the worker told him it was $5 for the pup, David was sad and told him he did not have it. the good man at the shelter gave him the dog for free.
and so Leif's first pet was a black, part lab, named "FREE".