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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yourturntoloveit, post: 159212, member: 57&quot;]<u>SBSVC and Gregsglass</u>, hope you will enjoy reading this &quot;happier&quot; story which could be titled &quot;You <u>can</u> go home again.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>One Sunday afternoon in 2009 three (unknown to us) cars came down our driveway.&nbsp; A woman about my age got out of the car and came to the front door and rang the bell.&nbsp; I halfway recognized her from many, many moons before.&nbsp; She introduced herself (I then remembered who she was).</p><p><br /></p><p>She said that the family came back to their hometown for her mother&#039;s 100th birthday celebration.&nbsp; She said her mother (and the other relatives) wanted to see the &quot;homeplace&quot; one more time.&nbsp; We had bought the house from the mother 16 years before.&nbsp; The mother (and the rest of the family) got out of the cars and walked around the house and of course were welcomed into the house.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve never been so pleased to see anyone because as she walked around outside and inside she liked the slight changes we had made (one change turned her original kitchen into a butler&#039;s pantry and made our larger kitchen look out over the backyard).&nbsp; She exclaimed upon seeing the larger kitchen &quot;I told Al (her husband who was deceased by then) I wanted a big kitchen window looking out over the backyard&quot; (or words to that effect).</p><p><br /></p><p>Each time the 100-year-old saw a change she liked she always exclaimed &quot;I told Al that was the way I wanted it when he built it!!!&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Al&quot; had started and owned the nicest (and oldest still in business) building supply company in our city and although under different ownership it is <u>not</u> a &quot;chain&quot; building supply company.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have kept the original chestnut paneling in our den and a mahogany outdoor building (former playhouse for the previous owners&#039; daughters) and now a workshop/storage building.</p><p><br /></p><p>The previous owner died four years ago at the age 103.&nbsp; I can only hope that her knowing <u>her</u> house was still being loved and cared for made her latter days even happier.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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