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Thread #169917 Message #4108810
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
04-Jun-21 - 03:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Who first lived in your house/pad ?
Subject: RE: BS: Who first lived in your house/pad ?
Nice story, Joe. It sounds like all of her hard work paid off and resulted in a friend as well. My sister was looking at houses in Seattle, and I have an idea that the woman who sold it heavily favored my sister as the buyer because they both loved the garden that she'd put in and tended for so many years. The garden is still a major feature of the house, if the woman ever drives past to look.
My house was built by a man and his wife, he from Jordan (Middle East), she from Texas. They apparently had a fabulous large garden with fig and other fruit trees back there. I found the remnants of a brick patio by the fence but none of the garden remained. He was apparently an old fashioned man, they had a couple of daughters, and only after a son was born did he pick up his family and move them all back to Jordan. My next door neighbor told me this story. The house was then rented out for many years, and empty for two before I bought it and have done some more gardening but mostly trying to keep it from falling down around my ears (the foundation needs work.) Amazing - come February I'll have been here 20 years.