Bought another house

Yes, the rumors are true, we bought another house.   Well, sort of.  I won't go into the details online, but basically we are getting the property in exchange for taking care of removing the house.  It sets just east of the Community Center in front of Nash's

It's the area outlined in yellow.  We own what is outlined in red, and farm the ground beside  and across the road from it.  From the ground it looks more like this:

Our plans are to remove the house and make a driveway back to the field.  The house is way beyond repair.  It might have been fixable if the basement wall had not collapsed

The photo really doesn't do it justice.  The actual wall is under about 3 feet of dirt here.The cost of fixing that would have been expensive, but do-able if the rest of the house was not in such bad repair.  For instance, there is a large hole in the roof ... maybe a couple now that I think about it. The big hole was above this cabinet they had stored player piano rolls in

Well, sort of above it. Directly above was an upstairs closet, the old roof, and a roof for an addition all above this. The closet to the left of this was directly above that cabinet upstairs

The coon and 'possum left when people started digging around in the stuff.  I took ownership never having been in the house. I had been told how bad it was, and since our plans were to remove it, the condition did not matter.  A friend would really like to fix it up.  Her husband and I went through it one afternoon.

If you look closely you'll see the window in the picture is totally missing.  Nobody knows for how long.  He came to the conclusion I was right, it was beyond fixing.  We are tossing around a couple other ideas.

Everyone who has been in the house has commented on the amount of ... stuff ... left.  Keep in mind after Cindy died John took truck loads of things to various auction houses and sold them.  He remarried and when John died his widow and her family took everything they wanted, several pickup loads.  Then Knowles came in and took enough stuff for two sales at their place. After that a couple ... I'll use the term "pickers" have gone through what was left.  And then someone else has gone through and pulled anything they felt was worth scrapping out of the buildings.  I haven't been inside since they finished, but I know there is still an incredible amount of stuff left.

To be honest I'd love to have a house there.  Especially during irrigation season.  It would be great to be a quick ATV ride from the irrigators.  And there is a bit of nostalgia.  When we came back home from college our first home was across the road.  But I doubt that will happen.