Houses: Two Examples

Here are two examples of older houses. In the top picture, that red box is their mailbox. The bottom picture shows the back of another house. Notice the air conditioning units. They are not in the windows. There is a hose that runs through the wall into a unit that is high on the wall inside the house.

Our old house used to be like this one. A little bulldozer came and tore it down for us. We built a new house after we lived upstairs in Jiji's house in one tatami room for seven years. We hated to see the old house go, but we needed more room. I miss living in an old house like this.

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