LEGACY

Good morning
Well I have been sick with the flu for a couple days .Took the stuffing right out of me.I am glad that it's almost over as it was a tough one. Its been quiet a while sense I have been that sick. Thank Goodness! But sick or not I still have gotten a lot of work down in the last couple of days. Andy hung out with me and we went and looked at windows, cabinets and roofing, fireplaces and rock, it has been great to have him there to see some of the products that I am choosing and why. Like metal clad windows compared to vinyl.I just can't see going with vinyl in a home of this quality. I want good bones. I keep saying this and maybe that deserves some explaining.
I have lived all my adult life and a good part of my childhood,in places I was always trying to fix up.Never in a new home.Everything from badly run down trailer houses to old falling down farm houses.Now I love a challenge and always said I could make a silk purse out of a sows ear.But the most frustrating part of the process is to move into a place like a trailer that you can only do so much with because it never had good parts to begin with. The place I live in now is a good old trailer house. I've made it very livable and its been a good comfortable home for me. But..... Its not a warm home to live in, the place moves every spring when the ground thaws out and the walls and the ceilings separate.The walls have rotted away around the bottoms in places like the bathroom etc. I hate that. Now don't get me wrong, I have painted the entire house really nicely. I put in all new trim everywhere there was trim and I put in good quality stuff.I put in new windows though out and added at least ten windows. All new floors. Core bond insulation underneath the whole house. Put new porches on and cement sidewalks.New fences and trees and and acre of lawn.I put a fireplace in and a really good roof over the whole place.So it's nice.It's a constant battle to keep it that way.I look at these old Italian villa's and I wonder do they have these issues? I don't think they do because theirs is a much simpler existence. No fancy facets, or carpet or all the crap we put into out homes that we end up being slaves to. Just good simple bones.Now my new home is not simple but it has good bones, it could be simple and still be... One of the reasons I wanted a log home is because they are suppose to last two hundred years. I would like that. That is what I have always wanted. To plant a tree my greatest grandchild will fall in love under.A home with a history.Stone steps that are worn down from time. I guess I have always had a thing for immortality. I want to live two hundred years and I only pick that number because I am afraid of being selfish.My mother wanted that too. She had seventy seven. I sure wish she could have seen this place. It would have been a dream come true for her. I am only grateful I have my Father to share it with. I am sure it is going to be a fun adventure for him also. That is why I want good bones. I want each generation to make it more beautiful than the last. I want the place to have a name.I want them to be able to say my great...... grandmother designed and built this home. Like some European queen of old. Hmmm ya I could maybe qualify.