5. What was the house (apartment, farm, etc.) like? How many rooms? Bathrooms? Did it have electricity? Indoor plumbing? Telephones?

We lived in an assortment of houses but Grandma Gilmore's house was the one constant when we were growing up. 

It was red and green with white trim and sat on a great big double lot on a corner. There were three cabins across the lawn from the house and a huge old barn that had been remodeled into another rental. There were fruit trees and two big garden plots on either side of the house. 

All the rooms in the house were painted in  combinations of red, blue and green. There was a  big kitchen and living room and five bedrooms.

When we were real little, Grandma had an outhouse that was a three seater with different size holes - a papa bear size, a mama bear size and a wee little baby bear size for me and Donna.

Grandpa built a bathroom on the house that was styled after the one at the tavern- since that was where he had most of his experience with inside bathrooms.  They had renters in the cabins around the house that didn't have bathrooms so- they built the bathroom to accommodate the boarders inside and the renters outside.

There was an outside entrance and also a door from the east side of the living room that went  into the bathroom.  Just inside was a sink and three cubicles made out of rough boards from the lumber mill. A stall for a shower, one with a wide low sink that served as a urinal and then a separate stall for the toilet.

Grandma handpainted signs with bright red nail polish that she posted all over the bathroom.  "No loitering allowed" "Not Responsible for lost items" and (my favorite) on inside of the toilet seat "flush toilet and close seat when finished".

Grandma had a telephone and we always had telephones at home too. I remember calling the operator and talking to her when I got lonesome.