11034 Sagevalley Drive 1967 - 1969
I don't know how long we wre in the Pasadena apartment, maybe a month or two, when my parents bought their first house. It was in the Sagemont subdivision on what was the southern edge of Houston. It seemed like it was built primarily to house the NASA people being hired to put man on the moon. Our house was about a mile back into the subdivision and there were only a few streets completed south of Sagevalley. It goes on for miles and miles now but back then it felt like we were on the edge of Texas wilderness. The house was a 4 bedroom ranch style home. Herbert and I had our own rooms for the first time. I desperately wanted a pink room but I think mom was worried I would have outgrown that desire so she did my room in yellow. I remember the address still because I was on the porch with mama and the real estate lady and heard the agent say the zip code was 77034 and the way the numbers were written on the house the ones looked like sevens so I thought the street address and...