Living in a House
I have lived in a house for all my life. I can say that I would never change it for a flat. Do you know why? Because my home is my castle, as the proverb says. I have always felt safe here, I have always realised that my home is a considerable part of my life, the place I want to come back to.
My house is not new, my grandparents bought it from some previous owners and I don’t know anything about them. But I feel the history of the place in any detail that can be found here. My mom and my uncle grew up here and I was brought into this house by my parents as a newborn baby, too.
When I take a look at the pieces of furniture I can remember different stories, connected with them. There is a bookcase in the living room. There are four glass panels in it. But one is missing. It is my work – I managed to break it at the age of four or five, I do not remember this well, but Mom says it was me who did it. I still feel a bit awkward. The scratches on the wall unit are mine too. It used to be so glossy once, but it has acquired a few ‘scars’ (as I put it) since I began walking around the house. The thing is that nobody wants to replace this furniture with something new. It is our history. I also know that there were a few valuable vases and dishes. You guess who broke them, don’t you?
Our house stands on quite a big lot, I mean the territory around it. It is enclosed by a fence with two gates in it. When I was a little kid, this place seemed to be so vast, that I could run about and hide and jump and what not. We have always had dogs out-of-doors. And we still have one to protect us from unwelcome guests. So I had a lot of fun when we ran hither and thither with our retriever. I used to build snow fortresses in winter in the yard… There are so many memories inside my head, when I look at my house. It has changed a bit, of course, since that time.
At the same time living in a house is not that simple. When you are in a flat you don’t have much to worry about. Here you have to clean away the snow in winter, mow grass in summer, take away rubbish. Besides, it’s very important to make the territory around nice and attractive. People living in their own houses have to work in the garden and cultivate the land. My whole family likes it. Our agricultural activity starts at the end of April and finishes in October or November with the first frosts. It is a great advantage to have a vegetable garden and an orchard – you can grow
your own fruit and vegetables which are much tastier than the ones we buy at supermarkets. Moreover there is aesthetics in vegetation and greenery around the house.
As for the future, I think more often of building the second house for my own family here, as there is enough space for it. My parents are not against it. I would like to live for my whole life in the place where I belong.
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