When I was really young, my family moved into a huge weird house that a family friend who felt bad for us let us stay in, since she couldn’t rent it out very easily. It was near the beach, but quite run down. It was really two houses, connected by this sky-bridge on the second level. It had a cockroach infestation too, and the carpets were all crusty and brown. The thing I remember most clearly, was a hot tub on the back porch. The water was a murky black/brown and there were all kinds of bugs and frogs and snakes in and around it. We usually weren’t allowed anywhere near it, but once for a school project, I collected some of the water in a jar and kept it to look at. there were all kinds of eggs in it, I watched the tadpoles develop into an insane number of frogs, and there were also worms and fly larvae. It was definitely a horrible living environment for a child, but at the time, I just thought it was so cool to have so many animals right there in my backyard.