My lost as a child experience.

OK here we go, let’s see what I can do. My lost as a child experience. This was the 1st place, the share cropping farm we had after moving to Indiana. I am sure we came to this area as it was in the Indana area near Moms Aunt Ida Sluyter who lived in Buffalo. And they were very close. Carl was born in Aunt Ida’ s house in March 1935, so we moved to Big Creel. Southwest of Monticello, around that time. We called it Big Creek as that was the name of a creek that ran through the woods on the west side of the farm. I think this picture is it: 40.66064625819204, -86.7796538630557 Although I dont recall the field being that large between the barn / house and the woods creek. Thisis the way the picture looks on this Stupid blog even though I uploaded it as a jpeg as instructed :(

Lost: I do not recall exactly when I got lost, mom told me the lost . But this is the way I remember it and the way I have told it MANY times. I would guess that I was about 4 years old or so at the time. I went out in the woods for a walk. . . and evidently did not return as expected. Dad and Mom got pretty worried. But as I was walking around in the woods trying to figure out where I was and how to get home, I ran across this BIG brontosaurus wandering around in the woods. We became friends, me petting him and he nuzzling me. I named and called him Bronti. As it was nearing dark he realized I was lost and needed to get home. So he had me scramble up on his back and he walked me back to the house. Mom and Dad were very happy as they were worried. After that every time I went back out into the woods or near the woods. . I would see Bronti and would go for a ride on his back. It was a GREAT experience. When we moved from there in 1938 or 39 up to the west of Buffalo and aunt Ida’s, of course we could not bring Bronti with us. And I missed him terribly. Once in about 2003 or 04 or so a bunch of us, brothers, cousins rented a van from Winamac and took a tour of the previous share cropping farms (5) we lived at. Including Big Creek (#1). We did not go out into the woods but I did not see any evidence of Bronti being there. So I never knew what happened to him. Of course, I still remember him rescuing me from being lost in the woods.