Good morning all, I am sitting in my living room listening to the heavy equipment in my back yard. The windows shake, pictures fall off the walls. My friends, The Villages are getting ready to build houses behind our home, if you watch TV you have seen commericals for "America's friendliest home town" well maybe they are friendly but now there are about 70,000 of them with the numbers growing daily. Any of you that have been to our home, the pasture behind us is the the latest part of the Villages, I guess the only thing "good" thing is that I heard that some of the lots will be going for $1,000,000.00, may be the time to sell???? Enough about the Villages, it really is a great place to live, we use their services all the time.
In prior posts I talked about the 4th of July, and birthday parties, and family cookouts but there is another big story from the summer that I need to comment on and that is the fact that Mother is selling her home.
I'm glad that she has made this decision and is doing it willingly. I know it was a hard decision for her, the house was purchased in 1947 and has lived there since, except for a short time that we lived across the street. We all understand the reasons for selling and support it. I spent the first eighteen years of my life in that house and have many memories , most involve balls, as that was what we did in our younger days. There was basketball in the dining room, baseball in the front yard, and throwing balls on the roof for hours on end. At some point in my life the barn was overrun with white rabbits, don't remember how many there were but in one of the old stalls you could only see a sea of white.....I believe that we ate a large percentage of them. Its hard to believe that the house in those days was heated by a kerosene heater in the living room and a burner in the kitchen stove. On cold nights we would sit almost on the stove to keep warm, and there was no heat upstairs in our bedroom, only that ,that came up through a small register in the floor. I am not complaining about this only using it to show the difference between the 50's and now. The furnace came long after I was gone.
Mom is moving to an apartment across the street from Stew and Merry, soon to be Kerrie and Kevin. I know this helps mother, knowing Kerrie will be close if she needs anything. We are hoping that she will come to Florida for an extended stay this year. She has always she couldn't leave the house, but that excuse is now gone. Remember Mom, Bingo as many nights as you want in Florida....
the crew after the big yard sale--July 2008
Later.................
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