The last of the old photos
This first photo is dated Summer 1941. You’ll likely notice the soldier there walking beside the horse in his German infantry uniform. If you enlarge the photo, there is another soldier standing on the left side in front of the wagon. I think (but it’s rather hard to tell) that the soldier on the ladder […]
For the car & history buffs out there
We were curious about the cars in the old photos from the house so we thought we’d research them a bit. Thankfully we know someone who works as a car analyst with hubby so he was able to find out what the car in the photo below was relatively quickly. We didn’t give him the […]
Our first new tree for the house π
We bought a tree this weekend and it will hopefully be delivered in the next few days. We are replacing the dead cedar in front of the house (see below) with an oleander tree like the one in the photo below. We figure it should look really lovely in front of the house and we […]
Plans for the upcoming weekend
Since the weather this weekend was so incredible, we were outside trying to figure out what our best plan of attack is on the vines that are overtaking the back of the barn and roof, the vines and roses growing on the “trellis” on the storage buildings and what we should do in the planters […]
Even more old photos…
We know you’ve been waiting for them all weekend…so here they are π These are just a few photos of the family who used to live here and the great times they apparently had, despite the fact that difficult times were underway. The photo below is dated 1940 and was taken during a family party. […]