Day 294
631 Giffhorn,
Columbia, Illinois
Our
latest address; coming onto 10 years!
2nd longest habitation-site;
11 years at Maeystown.
Ten
years ago my health protested 60 years of “not exactly pristine living” (Hell!
If I had known I would live so long, I’d have taken better care of my body!?).
The result found us in financial straits, not that I was ever any J. Paul
Getty-type, to begin with. Anyway, we landed in an apartment and searched
desperately for 2 ½ years for a domicile-residence.
One
fine day we were viewing a house; coming out to leave, I spied the home across
the street and said, in a vacant sort of wistful-musing, “I sure wish that
house was ‘for sale’.”
Well!?
Ask---and…ye shall receive! Wow! It came on the market a short time later---Voila!
It
is a unique property: brick with a front porch and back patio, large trees,
and, an additional lot. I turned this vacant lot into Lady Candice’s Magnolia Garden!
I
no longer ride herd on nearly 400-acres of ranch and farmland, but, I reckon
our little Piece-of-Paradise sure
enough keeps me occupied (somewhat) and out-of-trouble (mostly)?
In
the winter, we feed myriad birds and a plethora of squirrels; even get a hawk,
sometimes.
In
my time I have planted some 10,000+ trees in numerous locations. We did the same
with our “garden”-spot setting out various trees, shrubs and myriad flowers. I
added a 6’-section of white picket fence with an old-fashioned wire farm-yard
gate painted bright yellow surrounded by iron horsehead hitching-post tethers,
an old iron black-kettle and roses. The opening leads to the side yard where a
large swing on a stand, also bright yellow, awaits the weary traveler.
Our
“vegetable” garden blossomed fantastic produce yields for 8 years; each season
the crop ripened ready-for-harvest, a marauding horde of “winter-fed” squirrel
(pets) raided the field.
This
year?---No human (or critter) fodder in the garden mounds…all flowers they dig up!?
Our
cottage is quite cozy; Candy works on genealogy and tends flowers and I (try)
to write.
Life
will take you on a miraculous journey, If
you stop interfering---and, simply…follow!
Ah! Cookie Jar Sweet “Home! Sweet –home!”
Memories!
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