IT'S OUR HOUSE CIRCA 1920's!!

I was thrilled to find this on the internet today....click on the picture to make it big.
T.B. Pruett who built and owned the home is on the porch on the far right....the white haired man in the bow tie.
His wife Mayme is standing in the yard at the left...behind the bench...she looks like Ma Kettle!
Everybody else are his daughters and son-in-laws, son, grandchildren and nieces and nephews.

It's fun to see what is different about the house now and what remains the same.
I noticed that the foundation was open and now it's enclosed.
The windows on either side of the front door (and the 3 little ones above) are exactly the same....I always wondered if they were original...so, yes they are!
You can't see it very well, but there was a porch swing. We often have looked up on the porch ceiling and talked about the two BIG swing hooks up there. And wondered what the swing looked like and who sat in it.
The spindles that make up part of the porch railing are the exact same ones. They aren't in very good shape these days.
The floor of the porch and the front steps appear to be wood....now they are concrete and aren't in very good shape either.
And of course the siding was wood then and now we have ugly 30 year old siding (not wood) that is brittle and in terrible disrepair.
The windows that have the "X" pattern are still here too. Now they have a better weather proof layer of glass over them.
I'm dying to see what the back of our house looked like then. I know that my art room was a screened in porch.

I love this photo and sometimes wish we could keep this house and pour about $100,000. into it.
It's history and worth fixing up.

RAIN IN AUSTIN, TX LAST WEEK!

48 Hours in Weed, New Mexico.

1. George's dog, Comet likes to drive.

2. A pee break in Lincoln National Forest.

3. A wicked thistle plant with burned out trees in the background.

4. Lots and lots of BIG trees! The Forest Dept. leases land out to ranchers to run their cattle. How do they ever find them when it's time for round up? We saw lots of beautiful cows with babies...they have nice babbling streams and lots of green grass.

5.Bennie is "King of this Rock" on George's property.

6. A view 7 miles outside of Cloudcroft. The elevation drops 1900 ft. in that 7 mile drive. In fact I was kinda PUKEY alot...the roads are all so up and down and this-a-way and that. See that little thin white line way out on the horizon? It's not clouds....it's the White Sands National Park. It's the world's largest gypsum dune field....275 square miles of glistening white sand dunes. I'd like to go there....they have WHITE lizards!

7. Downtown Cloudcroft. Good shopping. Elevation 8600 ft. Population 762. This little village is about 22 miles from George's place...it's a very pretty 45 minute drive. I could live there.

8. Comet loves weeds in Weed.

9. Geno's campfire. There was lizard in the warm ashes from the previous night. See foreground....he found a horseshoe. George's sister, Nancy, takes her horses there from where they live in central Texas when she spends the summer or winter holidays there. She and her husband just finished a cute little temporary cabin. I forgot to take a picture of it. Eventually she and her husband will build a bigger house into the side of their little mountain...or big hill...or whatever ya call it.

10. This is George's trailer. The Faust property is 10 acres. George wants to build his house way up on the top of the afore mentioned mountain/hill. He said sometimes they get a foot or two or snow. While we were there it was in the 70's during the day and 40's at night....loved it!!

We saw deer, cattle, goats, hawks, wild turkeys and horses (one of whom chased George for his ice cream bar! The horses are loose in downtown Weed...population 20....there are cattle guards to keep them sorta rounded up. Weed has a few houses, church and a cafe where we had dinner one night. There were also lots of Weeping Willow, Aspen trees and apple orchards. It's funny to see signs that say "Watch for Snowplows".

It was a four and a half hour drive to Weed. I like Carlsbad and Artesia, New Mexico...I could live there. It was amazing to see the acres and acres and acres of pecan groves.
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I drove 50 miles to the dentist in Kermit today. Then 25 miles over to Monahans to get my glasses fixed and then 40 miles back to Pecos....sigh.