Very cool that the house my grandfather built almost made it to 100. Post construction mods included digging out the crawl space for a convection coal furnace and plumbing for a wringer washer. Along with my brother I built a model train layout with a slot car course on the dirt banks around the north end of the basement.
I hope the builders leave the Catalpa (Gertie planted it, generations used the bean pods for cops and robbers battles) and the Blue spruce tree.
I actually stole the Blue spruce as a seedling from Rocky Mountain National Park, back when I was a Cub Scout. My mother worried all the way back to Denver about the rangers busting us, but she really wanted a Blue spruce in the yard. The seedling had 3 branches when I dug it up but it soon crowded out the front yard rose garden.
