Comments on: Change

By: Ginny McKinney

Ginny McKinney — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:22:33 +0000

In reply to Patricia Freed Boggess. The road that is being paved runs along the back property line of the farm. It’s 74 acres so it’s a ways away from the house but there will be noise and the nature of the area will be forever changed.

By: Patricia Freed Boggess

Patricia Freed Boggess — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 23:18:51 +0000

Is it on your farm?

By: Ginny McKinney

Ginny McKinney — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:53:48 +0000

In reply to Mary Ann Simpson.

Mary Ann…I can totally relate to feeling like the alien on a foreign planet. It does get better…to some degree. But, we are acutely aware of all the differences that will always remain. ❤️

By: Mary Ann Simpson

Mary Ann Simpson — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:38:23 +0000

I was widowed nearly 17 months ago. I have seen so many changes in my life since that time, it makes my heart ache. The last time I was back in Michigan, where I grew up, I barely recognized the town because so much has changed over the years. Some changes good, some not (in my opinion). My childhood home is barely recognizable due to a two story addition. The whole neighborhood looks differrent to me. Lately I feel like I live on an alien planet. Maybe I am the alien living on this planet.

By: Ginny McKinney

Ginny McKinney — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:32:47 +0000

In reply to Sally. ❤️

By: Ginny McKinney

Ginny McKinney — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:32:38 +0000

In reply to Sally.

Oh, Sally…they ruined the drinking water from the well nearly 60 years ago when they capped the wells on this property. Interestingly, I accidentally ran the well dry this spring and now the water tastes and smells much better. It’s an ever changing world, however. I know this.

I wish you could have seen in that trunk! ❤️

By: Ginny McKinney

Ginny McKinney — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:29:30 +0000

In reply to Nell. Me, too. ?

By: Ginny McKinney

Ginny McKinney — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:28:51 +0000

In reply to Shirley Crain. ❤️

By: Sally

Sally — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:21:37 +0000

(When the house burned down, not the tree) the house burned for a long time, the logs were huge. They think it was an electrical short in a wire…so many memories.

By: Sally

Sally — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:20:43 +0000

Your drinking water could possibly get contaminated. We lived on a piece of property while helping renovate a very old house. We couldn’t drink the water because an oil well way back of the house had gotten contaminants in it (it was salty/oily to taste). It’s possible the house will not be practical to live in soon. Just a heads up, but you already know this I’m sure. I’m sorry. My grandmas house burned down several years ago. No one was in it, but it was the happy anchor of my childhood. I used to visit for up to two weeks, playing in the fields, gathering armloads of wild Black Eyed Susans, Queen Anne’s Lace, Goldenrod, and clover. I rode my pony there, fished in the two ponds, and sat in the pine forest behind the house, listening to the breeze through the branches and smelling the rich smell of pine and earth. We climbed the big old tree, in front of the house, it’s branches wide enough to lay on. When it burned, they found a log cabin inside, made of huge, square logs. We had glimpsed the logs through a crack in the attic wall. There was a hidden room we couldn’t access I have never known why was there. In the room was a trunk. I’ve always wanted to figure out how to get into that room and see what was in that trunk…..now I will never know.