New Neighbors moving in

The ?????????? Place

This is a 1985 land owners map with the area I was taking photos of below. The red lines are lines I drew that approximate the new road for this 'fox wood' subdivision of pasture and grey chat road. You can see that on this map, Virgil and Lois own all this land. David said Lois sold at least part of this before she died and now whoever bought it is trying this scam to get people to buy it in small lots.

What I really wanted to know is who lives at the end of the dirt road (CR 344 on here and CR 849 by the current road marker). This says it is Gene Combs. So, now I know. I never knew exactly where Gene Combs lived.

What I remember about this land that the Morris's bought sometime in the 70's?? was that Daddy called it the 'Myers place'. That may be wrong, but that is the way I remember it. Sometimes I remember things that ain't.

I see that Virgil Myers owns land connected to this. I am thinking the Morris' bought this land from Virgil or some of his kin. But, it is likely that Jessie Tom Maples lived on this little road in one of the old home places I saw. Jessie died in 1932, but his wife Mary Jane lived to 1955. Their daughter, Etha Maples Dillon and her husband Lon Dillon may have owned the place after that. Etha died in 1968. I remember their son Jessie Dillon living in a little shack at Coin next to the Church house.

land for sale

On CR 849 Carroll Co. AR. Remax Reality, Roger Turner agent, 741-6000. This is some of the same land ( I think the old Myers place, or Patsy says the Jesse Maples place) of that below, but, I do not know if it has city water like the other and I did not see any electrical lines running along this road. This is all different views of the same old home spot. It looked like the house had burned. Across the road and down the incline about 20 feet was a little dry stream that looked like it ran in wet weather. It feeds (the dry stream) into dry creek down below the old Morris place. There was only one house on this dead end road, about 1.5 to 2 miles at the end of the road. CR 849 is the first road to the left after the old Sunny Lane school house off the Alpena Denver road.

Patsy called and said Tony told her they was a new housing development on Grandpa's place at Sunny Lane. I drove over yesterday and took a look. I think it is actually on the place after Grandpa's which was the Myers place. George said it was on land that Lois Morris sold before she died.

Anyway, this is Grandpa's house that he built.




This is the sign going into the 'subdivision'. There is nothing there except this sign and some nice new roads. To get to the road, you turn off the Denver Alpena road on the second road to the left past where the Sunny Lane church/school house was before it burned. I actually think it is the first real road to the left because I think the first road is actually just a lane to a house that was built in the last 10 years or so. The road is marked county road 849. About 100 yards down the road it forks. To the right is an old lane that dead ends at a house about 2 miles back to the east? There were two old home places that had burned along this road. All that was left were a few pieces of the foundations and the daffodils blooming all over the place. To the left is a new road leading off up the hill towards Grandpa's old place. About 200 or so yards up the road forks again with the lane to the left leading off down towards the main road in front of Grandpa's house and the road to the right leading up the hill towards the back fence. I took the right road and then walked up to the old fence. I could see David Combs fields (the old Jack Robertson's place) across dry creek from there.



this is the lane leading from Pete Bell's old place down towards Grandpa's house. You can click on it and it will be larger. The dark spot of trees on the left edge is the field in front of Grandpa's house. the new development (minus any houses, only a road) can be seen toward the right of the picture in the background. Pete Bell's place was a mess with trash and junk everywhere.





This is the view from the back fence looking off towards dry creek and the rock quarry. I could not recognize anything in the view, but I know my place is just below the trees on the hills somewhere on the left side of this photo.

Buster

A good looking dog. I think he is going to make us a good dog. He barks at things that come into the yard. What I actually want a dog for is to keep the varmints out of the yard. Bear is even more fierce than he ever was, but he is not really a good yard dog any more because he is really feeling his age. Buster is not going to be a medium sized dog, I think.

I went to the Harrison Walmart today and they had some really good looking bare root roses for $4 and $6. I bought a yellow climbing rose, a climbing 'Joseph's Coat' rose that says it is red changing to orange, and two yellow tea roses. I have 2 red roses I bought last year that did really good. I am going to plant the climbers by the deck between the steps and the house. I also bought a rosemary plant, a thyme plant and another smelly herb, Marjoram I think. I am not sure where I will plant them.

I really have the spring bug. Patsy says it is too early to set my tomatoes outside.

Today in history

This day, this year, here are my tomato plants and watermelons I planted under the light. I also have cantaloupe, bell peppers and new zealand spinach, but those are not coming up yet. Patsy says I should just plant the watermelon seeds right in the garden when it gets warm. I think I may do that, and set out some of these also. George is supposed to take care of them after they go in the garden. We will see.

And, today George got his first social security check. It went in the bank by direct deposit, so I can spend it.

We did not get rain last night but we are supposed to get snow Thursday. I would rather have rain, but I guess I have lost all control of the weather. The spring lettuce, radishes and potatoes are very thirsty.