Sad News

Luanne mentioned that in talking with Sue, our old neighbor in Columbus, that she said our house on Palms Road had burned down! Sue said one day she came home and noticed it was all charred and the next day they had bulldozed it down.

I really wish I didn't know that. I stopped driving by it years ago, when they built a house in the field next to it. It just wasn't the same. It was a similar feeling to the one I had when Chris, (who bought the house on River Road and then extensively remodeled it) sent me a bunch of photos of the "New, Improved" house. I tried, but I couldn't look at them.

The Palms Road house was to be my homestead, where I would grow my own vegetables, and raise and eat chicken, rabbits and pigs. We even registered the name of our place, "Rock Bottom Farm" (after all the field stones on the place). It's were I bought the monster Troybuilt rototiller and then the Minneapolis-Moline tractor to work the land. I wanted to be a homesteader, but in 15 years was never really able to just live off the land. But, I tried, dammit!

And, now it's gone... I'd say it was the end of an era, except that era ended long ago and far away. But, it is the end of a dream...