Our house

Our House
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

I'll light the fire
You put the flowers in the vase
That you bought today

Staring at the fire
For hours and hours
While I listen to you
Play your love songs
All night long for me
Only for me

Come to me now
And rest your head for just five minutes
Everything is good
Such a cosy room
The windows are illuminated
By the sunshine through them
Fiery gems for you
Only for you

Our house is a very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard house
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy
'Cause of you
And our la,la,la, la,la, la, la, la, la, la, la.....

Our house is a very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard house
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy
'Cause of you,
oo,wah

I'll light the fire
And you place the flowers in the jar
That you bought today


We have spent the last two days doing the final Autumn clean up of the yard , or garden as lots of folks here call it. It's a big expanse of leaves and sticks and briars needing to be tamed. My brother attaches a leaf collecting machine, something that looks like Snoopy's Doghouse, to the back of our communal John Deere lawn tractor. The machine and his endless unloading of compacted leaf matter in the woods does the bulk of the leaf removal work. T rakes out the leaves bordering the house and walls, trees and back patio as he flies by. He is our savior on these weekends. I spent the day taming the bushes and briars surrounding us, behind the house and feel every snip,bend and step this morning. I snapped a nice shot of Nelson , but decided to showcase the house , all ready for the Thanksgiving company and bad weather to come.

The house at Dog Corner was originally a summer cottage , built in 1893 by a former Civil War surgeon, then medical librarian in Boston. The Brigham family spent many summers here. My maternal grandparents bought it in 1928, with 15 acres of wooded land from the son of the original owner. I grew up in a Cape next door, built on the land when my parents were engaged in 1946. My only brother built his house through the woods in the early '80s on more land given to him by our grandmother. I have lived here since 1978, my grandmother died in 1989 at 96. In 2002, T & I added a kitchen addition and painting studio/library loft in place of the old barn connected entry area /summer kitchen. My brother and I now rent the house next door, that we grew up in. It's a New England Compound I guess, not the Kennedy Compound by any means, but we all love it.

P.S...last year's thumbnail of thawing turkey and interested friend applies to this day as well!

For the Record,
This day came in cool and cloudy with moments of sun. Dropping temperatures and showers later.