The Kadizzle Home

This was the house where Kadizzle and his two brothers, and six sisters grew up.  This picture popped up on Facebook today.  This brought back memories.  This is where the insanity spread like the virus. See the right side of that porch roof.  Kadizzle remembers as a kid when we were going to jump off that roof with a blanket for a parachute.  Up on the very top roof there was a slate roof.  Kadizzle can remember sitting on the very top.  The slate he was on came lose and he slide clear down to the wide gutter thinking his life would shortly end.  Had it not been for the wideness of the gutter Kadizzle would now be dead or crippled. The most important part of that house is the porch and the steps.  People sat on those steps and that porch and talked for hours.  On the left side of that porch was a swing.  That swing will be put in the Kadizzle presidential library.  That swing was where is all started. Kadizzle was napping on that swing one sunny day. George Mattison walked by on the sidewalk below.  He shouted up to Kadizzle and asked if Kadizzle wanted to ride down the Ohio River with him. George was going to apply for a summer job at a coal mine.  Kadizzle went along. The next thing Kadizzle knew his career in coal mining started.  Coal took Kadizzle to Ohio, southern West Virginia, and ultimately to North Dakota.  It all started on one sunny day on that porch swing on 26 Poplar Ave in Wheeling, West Virginia.  Now, so many years later Colin, Louise, and Kathleen are dead.  Tom and Suzie are in West Virginia.  Melissa is in Portland. Amy is in Maryland, and Patty is in Arizona.  We were spread like leaves.  That house could write a book.  It would be an amazing tail.