Our house just had 2 bedrooms upstairs. Teeny tiny. But it had 3/4 of an acre. So when the opportunity came to add to the house, we put in a foundation bigger than our original house. People STILL think there are two houses here instead of one. I love it as intensely as I did when the realtor brought me here at first.
I just lost my brother a couple weeks ago, but the day he died I was able to find the letters he wrote me in the 50’s when he left for the air force, and his air force patch, and the family photographs of him to put up on my website. The memories keep him alive so that makes the packratting all worth while.
Sorry about the loss of your brother, Mairdie. But how wonderful you still had his letters from 50 years ago.
I’m heartbroken that, when all my grandparents passed, none of their kids saved their letters and mementos. All gone. I would have loved those as first-person memories for my genealogy research on the family.