I have really fond memories of the house I grew up in, which does not exist anymore. I mean, well, there\u2019s a HOUSE there, where I grew up, but it\u2019s morphed and changed so much (not in a good way) that it might as well not exist. I think it burned somewhat at one time and was um, \u201cremodeled,\u201d or else it was, er, \u201crebuilt,\u201d but MY house is gone.<\/p>\n
Still, when I was a kid, I\u2019d go to my grandma\u2019s house and it was in what I thought was a chichi neighborhood (I don\u2019t know, maybe it was, but now it\u2019s a tad rundown). I would go sell my school wares around HER neighborhood cuz none of my neighbors had any money.<\/p>\n
Now, I love architecture anyway. If I\u2019d been more focused in school (ha!) and a little more in touch with my creative\/analytical abilities, I\u2019d have known to go to school for that, but, well, hindsight is 20\/20.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I\u2019d go around my g\u2019ma\u2019s neighborhood and see all these NEAT houses of mostly the same style: 1960s ranch, with a mid-century modern (which I did NOT like as a kid, but have come to appreciate more as an adult) mixed in here and there. I wanted to live in that neighborhood so badly. To me, living in a 1960s ranch represented having \u201cmade it,\u201d but I was 12 and didn\u2019t dare dream any higher (even though I knew there were far more grand neighborhoods in existence and had drooled).<\/p>\n
So fast forward a couple of years and here I am with husband and tax deductions and 2 cats, in want of a house and we moved into \u2026 a 1960s housing development with \u2026 1960s ranch types (albeit no mid-century moderns). Some are more georgian (which here means, ranch with a second story) and a couple are split ranch (of both types) and ours is a raised ranch (finished, walk-out basement).<\/p>\n
Friday I did some yard work, which involved going outdoors. (Shocker, I know.) Once I collapsed on my front porch to rest, I looked out over my neighborhood with the old, well-kept houses, the pristine lawns, and somewhat 1960s-ish landscaping (well, hell, I planted arborvitae, so who am I to talk, right?).<\/p>\n
This morning, my door is wide open and I can see one old 1960s ranch with the brick veneer fa\u00e7ade and the diamond-mullioned windows and the immaculate emerald lawn. The only sound in the neighborhood are the birds and the 3-year-old Tax Deduction.<\/p>\n
My inner 12-year-old is very happy right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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