[merrylander]

What a difference, I got corresponding with a woman back in my old hometown, She sent me pictures, of the house I grew up in, my grandparent's home, my brother's first home (helped him build it), and the first home that I ever bought. All well maintained and landscaped. Even the fence I put around the backyard and the hedge all there in top shape.

The town has expanded considerably, my old two room schoolhouse is converted to lord knows what, big two story high school, lots of new roads and housing. Only thing that made me weep was they sold the church, and the big oak cross I built in my father's memory no one knows where it is, I would have paid to have it sent down here and given it to the little Lutheran church around the corner.