[RKDinOKC]

I don't remember absolutely everything that happened but have flash memories from events from when I was very young.

Remember being taking to the treehouse of the boy next door by him and my brother. I was taken to the treehouse and allowed to read comic books with them. I couldn't read the words in the balloons, but made up a story to go along with the pictures. They laughed at me because it looked like I was reading the comic book. Again before I was two.

My niece was born the day before my 2nd birthday. My dad drove me, Mom, and Grandmother from OKC to Gallup New Mexico to help. Remember waking up in a box on the floor behind the driver's seat with my pajamas on. My Grandmother was in the back seat as well. We were going across the Texas panhandle. I remember it because I did not want to put my clothes on because people could see in the windows while I was changing clothes.

Right after we moved when I was just over 2 Remember going back the the rent house to get one of my toys that was forgotten. It was a thin piece of pressed board about 2ft square with a metal castle in the middle with a working drawbridge. The board was painted with grass, brown roads, and a moat that went around the castle. Specifically remember there was someone living at the rent house and I was very happy carrying my castle board to and getting into our car.

Between when I was 2 and 3 I was limited to the amount of time I could spend putting my weight on my legs. An bad ear infection had gone to the where my bones were growing in one of my legs and the doctors solution was for me to stay off of it. Had lots of pedal toys. Tricycle, tractor, pedal car fire engine, etc. Also had a swing set. Parents used to take me for walks with me in a 2 wheeled cart. Remember going to the doctor and them having me walk down the hall and back while they watched to see if I was limping. I drawed a lot. Memory that sticks out from that time was mom telling me to go do something and me asking if it was okay for me walk to do it. I was in my baby bed, a bed with sides you could raise and lower.

Remember my first bicycle ride after my Dad took the training wheels off. I was 4. Rode it out of the driveway, across the the street and hit the neighbor across the streets car. I asked to have the training wheels put back on but Dad told me to just keep practicing.

Remember getting hit by a firework in the face on the 4th when I was 4. The neighbor boys shot a firework that was a fireball that zipped around zig zagging along the ground, it was called an "N" word chaser. It hit me in the right cheek. Before I was 5 those neighbors put up a stockade fence around their back yard.

My Nephew was born in Feb after I turned 4. My brother was in the Marines and stationed in Brunswick GA. Mom and I went on the train from OKC to Jacksonvile FL to go out so Mom could help. They rented an apartment over a garage on St. Simons Island. Remember riding the train out there. Sitting in a train station in the middle of the night in Mississippi while it was raining waiting for the connecting train. And meeting the conductors.

While in GA remember meeting the girl next door my age, Maria. And going on a date in the back seat of her parents car to go get Root Beer. Did the same thing with my girlfriend at home, Nancy. She was a year older than me. but she moved away before we went on the GA trip. Learned to write so I could be pen pals with Nancy. We were pen pals off and on until we were in Junior High. Not so lucky with Maria just talked a few times and went to get root beer.

Met some of the neighborhood kids on St. Simons Island while in GA and they got me in trouble. We snuck in and played on an in-ground trampoline a couple of houses over. The neighbor kids weren't supposed to play on that ladies trampoline. The old lady that owned the house told us there were snakes under it.

My Dad and brother drove out to bring us home from GA. Remember several parts of that trip as well. Stopped and stayed with some relative my parent knew in Tennessee. Called him uncle Mitch, but he was a distant cousin of theirs. Looking out his back picture window a deer walked by. He had a kid my age and he kept popping my suspenders. I did not like hime at all.

Also stopped at a place called Chimney Rock Hollow. I was very disappointed, it was just an old chimney made of piled up rocks that was all that was left of an old cabin.

That's just stuff I can tie to specific dates 4 years old an younger.

Did not get a wingspan look at the bird. I was looking from the east and it was flying north. But it was flying low and there was a car parked on the cross street that it flew over for size comparison. It did not have the head of a heron, buzzard, vulture, or condor. It was the shape of an eagle and there is not much of similar head and neck but red tailed hawks in Oklahoma, which I have never seen close to town or anywhere as big. The only animal shows on TV when I was 3 was Wild Kingdom. But I did go to the zoo. There weren't many birds at the zoo back then. Only flightless like the ostrich and cassowary. And I knew all those animals were from somewhere else.

Oh I also liked dinosaurs like many young kids. But it was not a prehistoric bird. It did not have a long beak with teeth like all the prehistoric stuff.