Blog #27, Due April 3

3/30/2020

How man homes have you lived in? Which was your favorite? Why? How did it feel? What makes a good home?

Jillian Duran

3/30/2020 11:49:38 am

I would say I have lived in about six houses in total. The first house I lived in a apartment when I was born. Then when I was two we moved to Paradise and lived on Neal Road. Then when I was three we moved into a house on Conifer. Then after the fire I lived in Corning for about two months. Then after Corning I lived in Oroville for seven months. Now i'm in Chico and I've been here for eight months I would say my favorite house out of all of them is the house I lived in before the fire which was on Conifer I feel like for me what makes a good house would be like how long you lived in the house or how many memories you had in the house. I don't really think what makes a good house is how nice it is or just how much you really like it.

Lexi Gee

3/30/2020 01:18:17 pm

The one we lived in before the CAMP FIRE. Then we went to dad's friend's house for a night with his wife, animals, and kids, then are cousins with their animals, and some other relitives that were there too in Redding, then a rental in Redding that had so many insects it was crazy going down the hall, then state housing in Lofer that we had to deal with the most because of all the dead trees and such, and then are house which we all like.
My favorite by far was Paradise. My neighbors were super nice. I knew almost all of them, all my friends were all in Paradise, my HOUSE was in Paradise, my LIFE was in Paradise, and soo much more this blog would be insane. Paradise made me feel at home and I will never get that back.
I think a good home needs no insects, no leaks, no floods, and give or take some people living in it. I would prefer if my dream house had a panic room that would double as a game room so if something happened I could have a place to hide out without being bored. I think it would really come in handy with the COVID-19 virus going around.

Josh.york

3/30/2020 06:07:10 pm

we stayed in a house in capiutala, the reason i liked it was because the beds your so comfy and when you get in it, it feels like clouds. another reason why i liked it was because it had a hot tub and it had alexa.

Sakura Konzen

3/30/2020 06:13:34 pm

I have only lived in two so far, one apartment back in Elk Grove and the house here in Magalia. The small apartment that my family lived in was awesome. The main reason my parents wanted to move somewhere else was a bit crazy. One of our neighbors back in the small apartment complex was a bit, psycho? To say the least. Well she once invited us in and she blew up about how my dad and older sister didn’t sit down on her, well, stained couch and she hated our guts after that and we stayed clear from her after that. (she also did drugs, but we didn’t know at the time until we moved) We lived there for a few years but after the incident we stayed for a month until we moved out and moved for a few and kept changing the house many times until my family settled on the house we are in now. We liked this house and nick-named it “The GingerBread House.” We lived here for about six years until we got a dog and things turned and our land-lord charged us a 75$ fine for a darn dog and we thought that was crazy and convinced her to change it to 30$ and that was it and we stayed here for another year and enjoyed it. Me and my family are planning to move to another state after my sister goes to college and that is in two years. T~T I’m very sad and will miss her very much!

Michael Meisner

3/31/2020 09:49:15 am

I have lived in five homes. One in San Francisco, another one in Chico, the third one in Paradise before the fire, then Oroville after the fire, and finally back to Paradise. I think my favorite house was my Paradise house before it burned down. I liked it because it had a lot of space, and that it was close enough for me to walk to school everyday. It just felt like home.

Caitlin Cooper

3/31/2020 09:50:14 am

I have only lived in two houses so far, and the first house I lived in was awesome, because I grew up in it, also why I love my first house is it has lots of good memories of us. We moved to a new house before the fire, (we built it up from the ground), but had help with lots of workers. It took a lot of years, like 5 years, because it was on a hill that wasn’t level, and also, not to brag but it is a big house. Our house made it through the fire, but our beautiful forest is burnt, so we have to see burnt trees whenever we're going down my gravel road, and up. These houses are both good homes because they gave memories of us living in them. I love both my houses, even though my second house is better than the first.

Maddie Gee

3/31/2020 02:15:56 pm

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My old house in Paradise was by far my favorite, it had everything a good home needs. Occasionally there would be bugs and animals, everyone loved it there, and it was a great location to live. It made me feel so happy and safe there. All the houses I have lived in including during the Camp Fire is: My house in Paradise, My dad’s coworker’s house (for one night), My great aunt’s house (a couple of nights), My other great aunt's house(three weeks), We rented a farmhouse up in Red Bluff (a month and a half), My dad’s work gave us state housing in Oroville(three and a half months), and finally we bought a house in Chico.

Teagan Quigley

3/31/2020 05:21:31 pm

I have lived in three houses so far. The first house I lived in was in Magalia on Norwich Circle and I lived there until I was three. The second house that I lived in was in Chico on Centerville Road. I lived there until I was two and it was my favorite house. I liked that house because it was very nice and we lived on a huge property right next to the creek. It had a huge kitchen and it was new. We also lived on the same property as our grandparents and got to go to their house anytime we wanted to. It had a huge garden and my grandma owned a plant nursery and a lavender field that we got to go to. There were so many things to do. Then, there is the house I live in now which is on a super small lot where there is nothing to do and it’s a small house for my family. I think what makes a good house is how you feel about it or if you like the design and coziness of it.

Will Hartley

4/1/2020 01:24:28 pm

In my short life I have lived in four houses. Well my favorite one was the fourth one. The house makes me happy because when we get hot we get in the pool when it gets cold we have a hot tube.What made it a good home was because all of are neighbors are nice, we have a nice pool, hot tube, and also a shop, and it is the biggest house we have own so now that makes more room. And that is why it is my favorite house and also makes a good house.

Hunter Chavez

4/1/2020 01:31:27 pm

As a family we have rented a lot of houses. Most of them were when my mom and dad were married. When they divorced my mom bought a house for us that we lost in the campfire. That was my favorite house. It was on Elmira Cir in Magalia. One street away from my Uncle and Aunt and two streets away from my grandparents. It was my favorite because I had my own bedroom and we had chickens. But the best part was we also had a shed we remodeled to be the boy’s hang-out room. I think this was probably my favorite of all. We cleaned all the walls and the floor then we decorated it with Marvel and Assassins Creed posters. It had carpet, a couch, an old VHS tv with movies and a bunch of nerf guns. This made me feel happy because it was a house we finally could stay in forever. I was really sad when we lost the house and all the hard work we had done. After going through the campfire I have learned that what makes a good home is memories and hard work into building dreams. I still dream of that shed and hope one day we have one again.

Davis Limbaugh

4/1/2020 02:08:47 pm

I have lived in four homes. My favorite one was on Dean Road, it was my favorite because it was right next to the flumes there also was a huge backyard and lots of concrete to play basketball. It felt amazing to be there everyday I would have fun. I think a good home has to feel cozy and have tall ceilings.

Mr. Faith

4/1/2020 04:31:47 pm

I have lived in 17 different houses. The first 5 were in my home town and the last 11 have been in Chico. It's really a complicated story that kind of makes me look bad in the end.

The house I live in now is my favorite because it has everything I need and most of the things I want. Mostly, I like it because my family lives here with me. I like them a lot and they like me most of the time.

But, I think it might be haunted. Every time I try to make toast it burns. I know it's not my fault, because, I mean, who doesn't know how to make toast?

I think there is a ghost in the house who turns up the heat in the toaster and maybe warps time in such a way that I think the bread has been in there for just a few minutes but it's actually been in there for like a half hour. I don't know how the ghost does it because I'm not a ghost and, although I Googled it, I couldn't find out how ghosts burn toast.

And, somehow, the ghost only messes with me. Everyone else in the house makes toast all the time and it's fine. I don't know what I did to make the ghost mad, but it clearly doesn't like me.

Stupid ghost.

Lillianna Rowe

4/1/2020 05:34:46 pm

I've lived in 8 houses. I know it’s a lot for only being on this earth for twelve years but the good thing about it is that I've never been attached to any of my homes. Because I knew they weren’t my forever home we would move every two years. All of my homes were one of a kind, all designed with a different style, some I did like more than others. I don’t just have one favorite house, I have two. All my friends would call this house the castle house because it looked like a castle there was a tower where you could drop things out of. You had to go through a secret room to get to it though it was in me and my sisters bedroom closet. We also had a “dungan” you would go down like 30 concrete stares and then you would see a huge metal door and when you opened it it was like you were in a big safe. My second favorite house was the one I was in right before the fire. We had just moved in; we only got to live there for eight months. It was an extraordinary home. You would walk up lava rock to the door and when you came inside it was mostly made out of redwood and lava rock with brick. We had plant beds in our home and there was a living tree also in there. You wouldn’t even have to turn on the lights. There were so many skylights that it was crazy. I mean there were even plants in my parents shower. The house was on three acres with a pond. The thing I liked most about it it had an indoor hot tub I do feel like i made the most memories from these two homes but within making those memories I had to let my friends go because we would move and they never went to the same school as me I Couldn't say i've been in a forever home because I haven't. Plus I don't think I could ever live in one home. I mean what fun is that!

Alaina McFarland

4/1/2020 08:23:51 pm

I have lived in three houses so far, the one I lived in since I was born, my uncle’s house in Penryn after the Camp Fire, and now my grandparents’ house, which survived the fire. My favorite is my own house that I have always lived in. This house is my favorite because all of my memories of when I was growing up were in that house, and all of my belongings to go with them. I had a yoga hammock in my own room, and all my books and stuffies, and my own personal sewing machine that I got for Christmas. We had a pond that we dug ourselves with lots of fish, and a big garden in our yard. My brother and I had a tree fort that we played in all the time. We had cats and lizards that we loved very much and deer that would sometimes knock on the windows to say hello. One of our cats was even best friends with a deer. We had a cabinet in our living room that held memories from all our adventures, like a Christmas ornament from Belize or a special rock I found near a waterfall. Our house was just walls and a roof, but it felt like home to us. It made me feel happy, and sometimes I still cry thinking about our wonderful house that we lost in the fire.
What I think is the most important thing that makes a house home is memories and the people you share them with. Someday soon I hope we will have our own house again and memories to fill it up with.

Noah Vitale

4/2/2020 09:19:28 am

Since I was a baby I have lived in seven houses. I have no idea why I moved from some of them but I lived in a old townhouse for a while then, I lived in a little three bedroom house my parents were renting after, I lived in a house my parents owned. Next I lived in a house where the only thing I remember is falling out of a window (I was a stupid kid) then, I lived in a house that had a pear tree and a cherry tree but it wasn't big enough so we moved after, I lived in Red Bluff but everyone hated it there so we moved again and finally I live in this house and its my favorite because we own it. I have got to change the floors in my room, set up my PS4, and do an ton of other things that I couldnt do anywhere else. thats how many houses I have lived in and my favorite house.

Amy Behlke

4/2/2020 10:22:58 am

I have lived in eleven different houses in my lifetime. Each one was special in its own way because each has represented a different part of my life.

When I was tiny, we lived in a duplex in Downieville, a tiny mountain town nestled along the Yuba River. This duplex was very small, but it had a wonderful front yard with a picket fence… which I ran over with a neighbor’s van once when I was playing in the van and accidentally let the parking brake off… oops.

When I was about three, I moved to a three-story A-frame house in Sierra City. This was the house I grew up in, my parents still live in this house. This house is special to me, not only because it’s full of memories of my childhood, but because my dad actually built this house with his own two hands. My dad was a teacher and in evenings and during summer break, he spent all of his time building this house for our family. It’s a wonderful house with a wood stove for heat and a back deck that has a view of the Sierra Buttes. My bedroom was on the top floor. This house has an aluminum roof, so when it rains, the sound of the rain on the roof is spectacularly loud. To this day, the sound of rain on a rooftop is one of my favorite and most soothing sounds.

When I went to college at the age of 17, I lived in several different apartments, dorms, and townhouses with roommates. This was a time in my life when I was learning who I was going to become as an adult. These homes each hold special memories for me because this was a very important time in my life.

After college, my husband and I moved to Paradise. We rented a home on Fickett, over by the hospital, then we bought our first home at the end of Edgewood Lane. Both of these homes were special to me because this is where we lived when I became a teacher and had my first “real” job. My husband and I were young, newly married, and had no children yet. We enjoyed this time in our lives. It makes me sad that both of these homes burned in the Camp Fire.

We moved to a new home in Magalia in 2003, and that is where we started our family. We loved our home on Dana Circle and were proud of this home. This home felt familiar to us because it was high enough in the foothills that it snowed and reminded us of the homes we had grown up in.

In 2011, we moved to Chico. It was becoming difficult to be so far from services and activities now that our boys were getting older and more involved in activities. We moved to a wonderful home in a neighborhood with a park and lots of friends. We moved to a different house in 2017, which is the home we live in now, but we stayed in this neighborhood ever since, and we love it here.

To me, a home is where your family lives. The things that make a good home go beyond just four walls and the things inside. A good home is where memories are made and where you spend time with people you love. It’s a place where you can be yourself and know you are safe. I am very grateful for each of the homes I’ve lived in, for each one provided for me in its own way.

Elly Blair

4/2/2020 11:22:54 am

I have lived in 3 houses, including the one I am living in now. My family is also building a new house soon, hopefully. The first house I have lived in is when I was a baby, so I can’t remember. The longest house I have lived in was the 2nd house. My mom was born in Chico CA, my dad, my sister, and I were all born in Paradise CA. We plan on staying in Paradise CA. I am really excited for my family's house. We also got my aunt's property, but with the virice and the list of other people that want to build it's going to take forever. Hope you have a nice day!!! bye!!!

Joseph Vasquez

4/2/2020 01:25:13 pm

I have lived in four houses. The first house we had was in Magalia. We moved out to the second house in Paradise. It was a small house, we ended up moving to a bigger house. The third house was burnt in the camp fire. The fourth house is the one I am living in right now. The house I love is the fourth house because I live close to Mr. Reed, Mis. Behlke, and my grandparents. I´m happy because I can say hi to Mr. Reed, Mis. Behlke, and my grandparents. I like having a house close to loved ones and to friends.

Jayden Bunch

4/2/2020 02:27:30 pm

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I have only lived in three houses one until I was one yrs old and the other until the fire and then the one I live in now. My favorite house that I lived in was the one that I had until the fire. I liked that one because it had a really big property and a biggish house. It felt like it was really homie and comfortable. I think what makes a good house for me is that it has a big property and stuff that keeps me entertained. I don't really care if I have a big room because most of the time I play outside.

Lexi Gomes

4/2/2020 03:24:36 pm

I think an awesome house is one that is comfy and smells good. I like it because it just feels nice to be in. I like my old house more than the one I have right now. It smells good and is comfy, but I grew up at a house that had a trampoline and a shaded backyard. Now I live in a desert, in the summer your fingers burn touching the concrete getting out of the pool! Not to be picky but inside the house I don’t want it to be roasting, and I don’t want it to be freezing. I had so many amazing memories at my old house, it kind of broke me to leave it.

Sonny David-Malig

4/2/2020 04:05:23 pm

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From what I can remember I have lived in six houses, I still live in two of them today. The first house I lived in was on Roe Road, which is a road right off of Neal. After we evacuated from the CampFire we went to my Aunt’s house in Red Bluff, we stayed there for a couple weeks. After we stayed there Me, My dad, and my sister went to Santa Rosa where one of my other Aunts live. We stayed there for a couple weeks then went back to my other Aunts house in Red Bluff. When we were there we found a house that was cool but needed some remodeling. So we bought it then got it to the point where we could live in it. After a couple of months we got it Remodeled and it looked great. But a month later after that my parents got divorced which meant my mom was moving out. She eventually moved into a two bedroom apartment which also meant me and my sister had to share a room. A little bit after that we moved into a Three bedroom apartment. Now I Live in my mom's apartment and my dad’s house.

AaRoN Davis

4/2/2020 04:08:48 pm

I've been in lots of homes, but I've only lived in four of them. My favorite one was the one I live in before the fire. I like this one because it was on Valley View and right in our backyard was a canyon, we had huge glass windows that were so nice to wake up to and see the sunrise or just look out the back window and see the sunset in the canyon. We are just starting to renovate the house and updated because I lived in that house my whole life and my parents lived in the house a little bit before me. It felt nice to just be able to wake up and look out at the canyon and you're all in nature when I wake up and look outside and that is something that the other houses in Chico don't really have. I had so many memories in that house they were just a pretty good house, at that time I kind of wanted to move because it wasn't the most updated house but after I did get a new house I found out that there's no their houses like that that have that Big Canyon View and all that nature. Be able to hike down the canyon if you're bored and we were just starting to make an infinity pool at the edge of the Canyon so that would have been pretty nice too.

Fatima Vazquez

4/2/2020 05:24:51 pm

I’ve lived in five houses my whole life. Three of them were in paradise, one was in Gridley, and the other one is in Magalia which is the one I'm living in right now. My favorite house that I’ve lived in is the one I lived in before the fire because my family and I made a lot of memories in that house. I also had my own room and all of my neighbors were really nice. It was also my favorite because it had a lot of space. My favorite house made me feel like I was at home. I think what makes a good home is all the memories you’ve made in the house with your family.

Warren Banks

4/3/2020 07:42:55 am

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My favorite home was probably my first house and it was my only house. I’ve been looking for a house since 2018 and I wish I could get a house but I am living in my Grandma and Grandpa's house for the 2nd time. In the middle of my Grandma and Grandpa’s I was living in a trailer after the fire we parked my trailer at Anderson Brothers junk yard for the end of November to May. Then we moved the trailer to my other Grandma and Grandpa’s house and we lived there for the beginning of summer till January 2020. Then in January we moved back to my other Grandma and Grandpa’s house for the second time and now here I am here typing this Blog.

logan jolly

4/3/2020 09:30:32 am

I have lived in 2 houses; they were in Paradise and Magalia. I like the one in Magalia more because it has five acres and I can do a lot more things here. I live in the Magalia house right now. I lived in the Paradise house for 10 years of my life. Those years are from when I was born to when I was 10.

MICHAEL ANDERSON

4/3/2020 10:12:02 am

I have been in two homes my first was in paradise and it was kind of small and it was sad when we moved but then we moved to my favorite house witch is in magalia. my second house is pretty big and it has stairs and a big yard that is why its my favorite.

Josiah Peters

4/3/2020 10:52:49 am

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How many homes have I lived in. I have lived in so many places recently that I wouldn’t exactly call “home”, but I’ll get to that later. For now let's start with my first ever home. The first place I ever lived in was a house in Orville that I can’t remember much about because we moved out when I was about one year old. When we moved from there we found a nice property in Paradise and we lived there for the next about nine years until I was about ten and then the fire happened and my life changed. Now I will shorten it up because I have a lot more places to get to. When we evacuated we ended up in a tent in an RV park for a few nights, then we were in a hotel, then an RV for a month, and then in a trailer for a while. When it reached spring time we moved out of the RV park because we couldn’t deal with the floods of the river there. Then we took our trailer to a friends house in Magalia and spent the spring there. Finally when summer came we finally moved back onto our property in our trailer and we have been here ever since. Which home would I say is my favorite? None of the homes I mentioned is my favorite, my favorite is already the house that is currently being built on our property even though it’s not even done yet. Those are all the homes I have ever lived in.

Allie Bess

4/3/2020 11:48:49 am

I have lived in two houses so far.my first house that i lived in was really small and only had two bedrooms but when my parents had my brother so we moved out but i can't really remember what the house looked like because i was only one years old. My second house was way bigger than my first and I did not have to share a bed room with my brother. My favorite house is probably the second one because it was a pretty big house and it had a huge Backyard. I don't really know what makes a good home maybe like when it looks nice or something like that.

Grace Meldrum

4/3/2020 01:21:07 pm

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I have lived in three homes throughout my life. The first one I lived in for my whole life up until I was eight. I liked that that house had a big backyard and I had my own room. That house began to be too small for us though, so we found a house that would not be too big but not too small. The second house was my favorite because it had a huge backyard with a pool. That house was really good for hosting parties and barbecues. Everybody was always at our house no matter the occasion. We lived in that house up until the fire. Now we live in the third house that we rebuilt. It’s almost exactly like the second house but it’s a little bit different. It’s different and it will take time getting used to. There’s a few things I would change about it, but not much. I think what makes a good home is how comfortable you are in it. It doesn’t matter if it’s pretty or big, you just want to feel comfortable in it.

Adrik Dyer

4/3/2020 03:29:50 pm

How many houses have I lived in and what was my favorite one? I have lived in five houses: a house in Cherokee which I was born at, Cherokee is located on the top of table mountain. I was also born in the Cherokee house. The second house I lived in is in paradise which burned down after the campfire. The third house I lived in was also in paradise, which also burned down. Then my fourth house was a tiny house on my current property while we were building our house, also in paradise but didn't burn. My current house is on a six acre property with lots of animals. My favorite house is probably this house, not just because it is one of the only ones that didn't burn. It is a nice big property and a two story house which is always nice. These are all the houses I have lived in some big some small.

Ali Duitsman

4/3/2020 07:17:48 pm

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I have lived in two houses. My favorite was the one I lived in before the fire. It felt good because I lived in that house for most of the years I was alive. I think that if the house is good it has to be big, there has to be enough rooms for everybody and there needs to be a big backyard or frontyard.

Allison Freimuth

4/4/2020 12:53:22 pm

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I lived in about 7 houses so far in my life. Overall I think my favorite house was probably my sixth house which was when and 3 years before the campfire. I lived in that house for about 3 years and that was in Magalia about 8 months ago. That house was my favorite because we made so many family memories and we had so much fun and there was a lot of room too. It felt like home because we made a lot of memories, we had fun, it was an adventure for me and my family. What makes a good home is having fun with your family and making so many good memories and it just felt like home.

Judd williams

4/4/2020 01:23:19 pm

I have lived in three different houses, the first one was on bridge port circle in magalia and I lived there for eleven years. The second home I lived in was in chico after the fire. It was a rental home and I lived there for about one month. The third house is the house I am living in right now it is a big metal building with a trailer inside. I have lived here four about eight months.

Annie Gates

4/11/2020 02:16:26 pm

I have lived in one house for my whole life. I think that a stable family is what makes a good home.

Aaron Hernandez

5/12/2020 05:34:53 pm

ive lived in four houses so far after the fire i moved to Gridley then to Chico and now I live in Magalia

Emberley Thornewood

5/17/2020 12:51:37 pm

I have lived in four houses, one of them for a couple of months. I think the best one was the 3rd house in paradise because I had a great backyard. It was huge and It had apple trees, cherry trees, plum trees, and a bamboo patch. My first house I lived in was in Rialto. I don’t remember it much because I was a baby. My 2nd house was in paradise and it was really an apartment. My family only lived there for a year. My 3rd house was also in paradise. I loved that house. We lived in it for many years. My 4th house was in yuba city. After the fire we moved there. We only lived there for a couple months then we moved to magaila into my grandparents house.

Caleb Pruis

5/21/2020 09:52:03 pm

I have lived in three houses my favorite house was the one we lost in the campfire because I had my own room and bathroom with my own slider door to the back deck. What makes a good home is a big home, and a comfortable place to hang out with friends and family.

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