loft ....maybe, maybe not

this is the hallway ... the little window in the left wall is left over from a pharmacy that used to be there. can you imagine going up stairs that are one and half stories tall to get your medicine?
the door to the left goes to the bathroom. unfortunately the original door was torn off.


the wall straight ahead is part of the wall of the next building over. it has kinda cool finish and texture when you peal off the wall paper. it would be the east wall of the eating area.



not sure who's rear.... but anyway, the dining area wall is to the left and you are looking straight into the kitchen area. someone already lowered the ceiling. thinking about putting corregated tin on the ceiling.... maybe... door to kitchen is against wall. could use it for the missing bathroom door.



the windows are on the front of the building. they would be replaced. the area to the right is the dining area and to the left is the living area. i didn't take pictures of the bedrooms because it was too dark. !!!! thinking of resistance heating, or heat pump, demand water heating, and pex plumbing., insulating to the max. will have two sets of french doors on the back out onto a deck. the front door...which is on the side of the building still has a glass on it with the words lawyers office on it... cool. the mail slot has been nailed shut. the stairs up are in a narrow passage between two buildings. will get estimates and a structural engineer to look at it.

two old ladies

you just don't know what will happen when you get two old ladies out in the back yard on mechanical equipment! don't know how i got the underline on! i have that feeling about running the three wheeler. if it stopped, jay had to start it. i never was out of first gear. but i did know where the breaks where! we went up and down the field picking up junk from an old car junk yard. when they took out the cars etc., they just covered the small stuff up with dirt, but just like rocks the stuff heaves up in the spring. we found hubcaps, trim, brake drums and pads, lots of rubber stuff like belts and trim around doors, a girl's purse---empty--but no snakes or animals. we filled three little trailors with stuff. the trailor was hooked behind my sister's four wheeler.





it was fun.... don't think i will ever go very fast on one of those things though....very tippy. even though it wasn't very sunny, my nephew thought i should wear a hat. his property goes down to the trees. he did offer once to let my sister and i put a trailor on it. he already has a nice one at the top of the hill in the direction we are looking.

flying ears

once again i am in the black hills, and it is rainy and cold. that probably explains why the hills are so green that they look black from a distance. during one of the breaks from rain, the families gathered on the ball field to put up advertising signs on the boards of the back field. the men used there power tools while the women stood around and chatted. the kids were all over the field. at one point my great niece had put her mini dachshound --spotted splashy black and white with blue marble eyes--- into her little doll stroller. he was sitting up and belted in as she when flying across the field. his long ears caught the wind and were sticking out straight on either side. a little faster, a little bit bigger ears, and he would have taken off.