Today I was invited to my neighbor Joyce's house, a neighbor who has been such a good and dear friend since we moved into this old house 17 years ago. Joyce had invited a few people over to her farmhouse (theirs is a working farm and fall is always a fun time to be there for all the excitement going on!) for lunch.
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One guest was Bernice, a sweet and spunky little lady who was born in our house, she is now in her upper eighties, and our house just turned 110.
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Another guest was Jan, the woman who was the second owner of our house, who is one of the smartest and most creative people that I've ever met. Joyce's daughter, Alison was there too, as she had babysat for Jan's four kids when they lived here.
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We had lunch, a delicious crusted spinach quiche that Joyce made and a gorgeous fruit salad and a wonderful cinnamon bread with frosting, yum! What we all have in common is this old house: Joyce and her family farm the original land that was with this farmhouse, their farm is another family farm original to this section of land, and their place adjoined it and now they have one big farm.
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The lady in her eighties, Bernice, was born here and her family back down the line in the 1880's was the original farm family to come out here, get their farm up and running and then built this old house.
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Jan was the mom of the family before us, who had her four kids and rocked them all here, a city girl out in the middle of nowhere, and finally we are the newest and, I believe, only the third owners of this place.
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Before Jan moved away from here, she introduced me to Joyce and Bernice and we've all kept in touch. The photo that you see here is something I printed off and gave to each of the ladies, the house turned 110 years old this year!
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