Caney House...

Here is another picture of the Caney house. The land behind the house belonged to the Karjala's and that is where you kids drove their race car.When I posted a picture the other day Kris commented she remembered running through the house and cutting her knee on a nail in the wall.

Kris was in the 3rd grade and it was the summer before we moved to AZ. Kristina and Melissa were running through the house and there was a nail head sticking out of the paneling nailed on the wall. Kris cut the side of her knee and it made a pretty good gash. I loaded her up and took her to the Doctors office in Caney. The Doctor wanted her to get stitches and Kris had a fit. She always hated shots and needles. Anyway we opted no stitches and he taped it up and we went home. To this day Kris has a pretty good scar on the side of her leg from that cut.

But the point of this story is, that Kris wrote about that experience for years on writing assignments for school, maybe even college. I do not remember exactly but I know she was still writing about it in High School. I was very involved in Kris's school work and when she would come home with a writing assignment I would ask her what she was going to write about and at least once a year it was about cutting her leg on that nail. I remember in 4th grade she wrote about it and it was titled something like, 'My visit to the Doctors.' Then as years went by the experience had to get larger and more dramatic to fit the assignment....Probably her last paper was titled something like, 'When Death Came Knocking...'