Thank you, all!
I plan on a lot of landscaping and flower planting this year. I'm also thinking of putting windows in the porch, to make it into a 3-season smoking area.
I started posting pics in this thread, about the house project itself. I have many more, but haven't gotten around to...
On seventies colored cars:
1972 Country Squire:
1973 Satellite:
1979 Electra Limited:
My favorite car of my childhood, 1977 LTD Wagon:
And the better half's Bonneville
I closed on my first house, today. It was originally built in 1933, and appears to have been added onto more times than Carter has liver pills. The final addition being the master bedroom, sometime in the 50s or 60s by the looks of it.
Anyways, here's a couple photos of the outside. The...
Very, very sad. I always thought very much of him and the fact that he kept up his Dukes of Hazzard role over the years. Another part of my childhood, gone.
These cars belonged to my Grandpa Nakielski. Come Christmas, he'd get one, and one for me. Dad put up a shelf in my bedroom to keep mine on. He told me not to play with them, to leave them in their boxes, but of course, a 7 year old kid doesn't listen and I played with and beat up all the ones I...
My favorite year of them all would probably be 1959, good music on the radio, cars at their very height for styling, an optimistic, thriving America. What's not to like?
As for an era, entirely? I'd go 1946-1970.
I got a package from my Grandmother yesterday.
She told me that she was sending me these canisters, they have been in Grandma and Grandpa's kitchen so long as I can remember. Unfortunately, big changes since Grandpa's passing has lead to almost everything Grandma owns leaving that house.
They...
I see we're on the same page:
We have it on tap, right from the land of sky blue waters.
Plan on it soon!
Thanks!
Nothing better than having family around!
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