This Old House...

[Singin' Sue 71615]

Remember that song?

How about the 'feels'?

 

As a child, our childhood home seemed large. This old cabin did too!

 

Our childhood home was a 3 bedroom, 2 bath home for the 5 of us.

The front and back yard was more than enough room to play.

The kitchen was small, yet the dinner table wss in the center.

The washing machine was in one corner.

The first dishwasher was portable, and sat at the end of the cabinet.

 

The cabin, with its high, pitched roof and enormous fireplace seemed HUGE.

 Us kids slept in the loft.

 

Well, careing for daddy in his last few days, in his home that he built and we lived in our entire childhood, was a blessing. The 'feels' were overwhelming. I am blessed I had those days in 2019.

 

Now, living in this under 900 sq ft home...the 'feels' are wonderfull.

It has and still is makeing me decide what is important and what can go.

Now, the kids think we are changing the place...and we are! Rearranging things to fit us as we are now in our forever home.

 

I wonder how many of us grew up in modest means...and feel blessed?

 

I am in awe of some of the beautiful, magnificent homes we have been invited to...but, am always grateful for the home(s) my daddy  provided...as well as the home Shanley provided for our family.

 

If ya get in a rut, put on This Old House...and get back the 'feels'🤗

 

[Eyesa Horg]

Nice 👍 

[Spiritmaker]

I bought my house from my dad's estate when he passed in 1985. He bought the place in 1960. Dad and my grandfather built 2 more rooms on the first year. 1 100 feet total and still raising this child. Inside still feels big but outside has sure has gotten crowded. It was in the country then, not so now. The "feels" are everywhere. 

Edited March 21 by Spiritmaker

[Singin' Sue 71615]

There will be a small cabin built this year, across the road...but that is the last space in our little neighborhood.

Our NM house now is owned by our first son in law, and he has our grands, their mom and new husband living there too! 5 bedroom, 3 bath on an acre.

The surrounding acerage is being built on quickly...so I hear ya. Still better than the city hustle.

Edited March 21 by Singin' Sue 71615

[DeaconKC]

 

[Widder, SASS #59054]

Here is the song I was thinking of..."If this old house was built on memories....."

 

Beautiful song.   But YouTube won't allow me to embed it.    Sorri.

 

..........Widder

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLP2aHWKOpA

 

 

[Singin' Sue 71615]

34 minutes ago, DeaconKC said:

 

That's it!!!

[Blackwater 53393]

In October we’ll have been here forty-five years.  It’s a 1,200 sq. ft. house on just under and acre and three quarters, in a cul de sac with 15 other houses.

 

We were the first and one of only two of the original owners. When the neighborhood was filled up, there were 32 kids under the age of six and by that time, Hatfield was two years old.

 

Eight years ago, I built my shop next to the house. It’s 2,400 sq. ft. and fifteen feet to the rafters. It was my goal when we moved here to be far enough from town to be away from the rush and close enough to be abe to readily access health and business needs in a matter of minutes.  That still seems to be the case, even though Nashville has become a destination place for refugees from bigger cities and those who want to move “to  town”!

 

We thought of moving to Wyoming fifteen or more years ago, but the grandsons are in school here. The oldest is apprenticing as a steam fitter and the younger one is a junior in high school, studying to be an actor.  We’re their support team along with Hatfield, who now lives with us and works out of my shop.

 

I reckon we’ll just stay right here! It took a while to get this place like I wanted it and it’d take three times as much to pick up and move somewhere else and have what we have.

 

Youth sports, the band, my biker friends, seven dogs under sod in the back yard, and all those grown men and women who still call me coach and who point out Schoolmarm as “the teacher that rides the Harley” are memories that reach out and grab us every day or two!

 

 

[Singin' Sue 71615]

1 hour ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

In October we’ll have been here forty-five years.  It’s a 1,200 sq. ft. house on just under and acre and three quarters, in a cul de sac with 15 other houses.

 

We were the first and one of only two of the original owners. When the neighborhood was filled up, there were 32 kids under the age of six and by that time, Hatfield was two years old.

 

Eight years ago, I built my shop next to the house. It’s 2,400 sq. ft. and fifteen feet to the rafters. It was my goal when we moved here to be far enough from town to be away from the rush and close enough to be abe to readily access health and business needs in a matter of minutes.  That still seems to be the case, even though Nashville has become a destination place for refugees from bigger cities and those who want to move “to  town”!

 

We thought of moving to Wyoming fifteen or more years ago, but the grandsons are in school here. The oldest is apprenticing as a steam fitter and the younger one is a junior in high school, studying to be an actor.  We’re their support team along with Hatfield, who now lives with us and works out of my shop.

 

I reckon we’ll just stay right here! It took a while to get this place like I wanted it and it’d take three times as much to pick up and move somewhere else and have what we have.

 

Youth sports, the band, my biker friends, seven dogs under sod in the back yard, and all those grown men and women who still call me coach and who point out Schoolmarm as “the teacher that rides the Harley” are memories that reach out and grab us every day or two!

 

 

Love it!

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

tied to the land and the spirits that walk it 

 

reckon , I am only the care taker for a while 

 

  CB 

[Waxahachie Kid #17017 L]

Always great to see my ole Saddle Pal, Singin' Sue. 

[Singin' Sue 71615]

5 hours ago, Waxahachie Kid #17017 L said:

Always great to see my ole Saddle Pal, Singin' Sue. 

Hey Waxa!!!