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Well, it has been a long time since I have been here. I have been trying to read all my alerts but got so far behind I had to delete them for awhile.
One day my brother in law came to see us and he brought a real estate paper with houses for sale. There was one I liked and I showed it to my husband and he said, " That's the house Mama used to live in. And  I recognized it then and said "let's go look at it." We did and I fell in love with the house. It had been completely remodeled with an upstairs added. It has nine foot ceilings and wooden floors. There is a wood burning cook stove in the kitchen. A fireplace in the living room. A claw foot tub in the bathroom which is original to the house which was built sometime around 1939. My husband said no!! I sulked and argued and fussed and cried and complained to my daughter and she wanted me to have it as bad as I wanted it. Finally after a good fit pitching, we called the real estate company and at last I got my way and now my husband thinks it was his idea he is so happy. We have seven acres. Some woods and a pasture and best of all a natural spring that runs year around. We also have a big snake that lives there. We have two cows and just sold two calves, we had two chickens but something got them. A hawk maybe? And for the very first time I have an indoor kitten named Zippy. He is sitting in my lap now as I type. He is part siamese and something else. We have joined the church which is just across the road. I have always wanted to go to a  church that I could walk to. My mama and daddy went there when they were first married and returned to it later when they got old and both had funerals there and they, my little brother and my oldest sister are buried there. Also I was able to get the phone number that my mama had since we first got a phone in 1953. So I feel that I have come back home at last. I love my house. It has big pecan and oak trees all around it and there are sycamore trees around the spring. And water cress growing in the water. I discovered the snake one day when I almost stepped on it. I said a bad word and jumped backwards and it slid away. It was big but I couldn't tell what kind. Now when I go to the spring I wear boots. I have always wanted a spring of my own. When I was little I would find them in the woods and my aunt used to take her clothes to one and wash them when the wells went dry. Also the creek where we swam as kids runs behind the house over behind the railroad tracks. We also have trains that go by and I used to hear them in the night when I was little. This house is just a few miles from the one where I grew up. It is torn down now. I guess you can tell I am happy. Getting moved was awful and we had to buy a storage building for all our excess baggage, but my husband insulated it and put in an air conditioner and built lots and lots of shelves so things wouldn't ruin. I am going to try to add a picture of my house.