This is Mr. Louis Halden and his wife, Delta in the early 1940s. They lived in our house from 1941 to 1946. Their daughter, Judy, has been corresponding with me about the house and was very kind to send pictures. This picture was taken in our back yard. You can see […]

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My good buddy Lars came over last night and planted a big vegetable garden in my back yard.  Lars has a green thumb and I’m trying to learn from him.  Hopefully I’ll have some pictures of little vegetable sprouts coming up soon!  I think this is what he planted:

zucchini
pole beans
various squash
leeks
carrots
kale
lima beans

Meanwhile the flowers I […]

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The lady who lived in my house as a little girl sent me a letter with a floorplan she drew from memory. She moved out of our house when she was six years old or so and it’s amazing how much detail she remembers. Her drawing is practically to scale and nearly all […]

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I received a lovely letter this week from the lady who lived in my house as a little girl.  She included pictures, which are awesome, and also a sketch of how the house was laid out when she lived here.  I was amazed at how accurate her memory of the house is 60 years after she […]

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