So the house that I grew up in, um, was probably built in the late 1800s. It was called the balloon frame house. And the local town doctor said that — he had a newspaper ’cause he was really into history — said that our house is like, the first — either the first one in the town or we’re — the first one in like the area, and that everything around it was farmland. And then when I was growing up, it’s like, obviously there were other — it was like a little town, so like other houses around it and stuff. And they didn’t have plumbing back then, so — and this is — okay, so I was born in ’85, and so this is like — my, my childhood was like before every house had internet and computers and cell phones and everything.
So, little town, a whole lot of retirees. Not a, not a whole lot of kids. And then my mom was very strict and kind of a little bit of a hermit, kind of. Um, so not a lot of going out. Um, and then we had one TV in the house and, you know, she was — had mental issues, so it’s like it was always whatever she wanted to watch, for the most part. So like when I would go outside, there wasn’t a whole lot to do. We had — I had a swing set, and for a while, we had like an above ground pool, and I had toys and stuff.
Um, but — I don’t know why but oh, I think probably because I watched Indiana Jones and then Jurassic Park, but — so I took a shovel and next to our back porch, I was digging a hole. And eventually I found a glass bottle. And I was like, “Holy crap!” Like, “I found treasure!” And, um, so my parents didn’t like the fact that I was digging a hole, but at the same time, I was finding stuff. And so what we think it was is like back in the day, you didn’t have dump trucks, you know, so you would get stuff from the store and you would use it, and you would reuse what you could, and then you just buried or burned what, you know, what was left over. And so it was probably just like they would dig holes and put their stuff in it and then bury it, and that’s where the glass medicine bottles came from. So, so it was pretty cool. A little part of Michigan history.