Everett's Place And The Garden Princess

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We have met quite a few people since we got here a little over a month ago and many of them have a story or a memory about our house and about its last Tash family resident, Everett.  We're no longer Kevin and Ann Mutschler (even though it says so on our mailbox), we are now the folks from California that bought Everett's place and that's OK with us.  As we share with people what we are doing and what our plans are they often tell us "thank you" and they explain how much it means to them that we are doing it. More than once someone who knew Everett well has gotten choked up about the project and said that Everett would be very happy to know what we're doing.  That is the best compliment we could receive.

Yesterday afternoon Ann, Bonnie and I went over to the house to take a walk.  Nick isn't a fan of the heat and decided he'd rather watch TV than walk and sweat.  Ann and I had taken turns working at the house earlier but wanted to go over and look around.  I don't know if I've mentioned it but there is a large barn on a hill behind the house that was once the place where Everett milked his cows.  It was part of the farm but is now owned by the school district.  I want very much to talk with the school district about bringing that piece of land and the barn back to Everett's place.  I've reached out to the school board and will update everyone if I hear anything.  Anyway, yesterday I mowed a path all the way up the hill and into the old barn so that Ann and Bonnie could walk up there.  We walked up about sunset and took a look around.  It's quite a place.  Here are a couple of pictures:

So after we came back down from the barn we went out in the garden.  Ann planted this garden right after we got here and yesterday she took her first cucumber from it.  It was delicious.  Everything is growing like crazy and doing great.  Bonnie went and got her garden hoe and wanted to work in the garden.  Earlier she had asked Ann to put a number of clothes on her (pay close attention to the skirt) so I said she looked like the garden princess.  Take a look:

Well, that's about it for me today.  We are in the process of cleaning up the inside and outside, cutting brush and enjoying all of it.  Each day we discover something else we love about being here.  Sometimes it's the river, sometimes it's the quiet and sometimes it's the people.  We will continue to keep you all updated and look forward to what we discover next.  I'll close with a couple of pictures from a walk I took down the river across from our house the night before last.  Yes, it is as peaceful as it looks.

Kevin