Growing up in the Bay Area with parents from Michigan, I agree with your answers with minor exceptions.
Creek - because we lived near Walnut Creek. Stream, however, was equally acceptable.
And pill bug, roly-poly (long o) and (until age 11 or so) potato bugs were all possible for the little roll-up guys (not insects, by the way, but then you know that). Potato bugs later became the name of a large cricket-like monster.
And my grandparents in Michigan had a porch and a back-porch. Patios were uncovered or seperately covered (with an awning or other structure not integral with the house) and in my mind were totally a California thing.
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Creek - because we lived near Walnut Creek. Stream, however, was equally acceptable.
And pill bug, roly-poly (long o) and (until age 11 or so) potato bugs were all possible for the little roll-up guys (not insects, by the way, but then you know that). Potato bugs later became the name of a large cricket-like monster.
And my grandparents in Michigan had a porch and a back-porch. Patios were uncovered or seperately covered (with an awning or other structure not integral with the house) and in my mind were totally a California thing.