What kind of house did you grow up in?

What kind of house did you grow up in and what was the old neighborhood like?

If Beckie blogs about questions I will try to blog about them, too.
When I read the question about what kind of house I grew up in, interestingly I immediately thought about our house in Silver Spring, Maryland-so I will blog about it.
I was in third grade that year.  We lived in a two story house, with a basement.  We had a fenced back yard and we got a beagle named Dolly.  Dolly barked constantly and would escape from the back yard, so we gave her away to some people who lived on a farm.  We also had a cat named Kitty.
The house had a small kitchen, but we did have our first dishwasher.  It was round and opened from the top.  You took the top rack out to load the bottom rack.  Beckie and I also got our first electric blankets.  I remember the day we got them we were told NOT to get them wet.  Of course, I spilled a glass of water on mine that very first day, so I couldn't use it, but had to sleep in a wet bed.  
I loved the basement in the house where we had a play area.  I got my Easy Bake Oven that year and it was one of my favorite toys ever.  I baked lots of little cakes in that oven.  
That was the year we had so much snow that school was cancelled for days-so much fun.  There was a little hill separating our house from the neighbors and we would sled down the little hill.  (It really was a little hill, maybe 2 feet high, about like a baby slide.)  The neighbors had a little girl named Mary Hornbeck.  We played with her a lot, but she was kind of mean.
That was also the year I got Mystery Date for Christmas.  Beckie and Mary Hornbeck and I played it a lot.  
Popi's parents, Grandma and Grandpa Brugger lived with us a lot during our time in that house.  They had a suite off of the living room.
I could write a lot more just about that house, and as Beckie said we lived in a lot of houses.  Maybe I will write more another day.