Editor,
Loved the column by Jon Mays in the July 22 edition of the Daily Journal. Nicely written. I enjoyed the story of your home and especially the way you related your care to restore it.
Editor,
Loved the column by Jon Mays in the July 22 edition of the Daily Journal. Nicely written. I enjoyed the story of your home and especially the way you related your care to restore it.
Reminded me of the can-do attitude of my family and of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, house I grew up in. Built in 1880. As opposed to your little house, though, Mom and Dad kept updating it, adding indoor plumbing facilities, etc. and my mom laid the concrete basement flooring by herself to replace the bare dirt floor.
Mom grew up on a farm in a family of 16 children, and they didn’t have any amenities in her childhood home that my grandfather constructed himself. No indoor plumbing whatsoever, no electricity. Just one central wood-burning stove to heat the dining room/living room and an outdoor windmill to pump water from the well.
Mom was very self-reliant and would take on any task. She passed away five years ago at the age of 95; born in 1922. I consider it a great privilege to have parents in that generation. Your story brought back many memories of home repair projects.
Ruth Schueler
Foster City
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