I am in Davenport Iowa, my hometown that I left in 1979. I then left Iowa all together in 1985. So how did I get back here? This is the short version.
2016 was the year this started. Dad became ill and passed. My mom passed shortly after, from a broken heart. I have three sisters and we held an estate sale. It was sad for us to sell everything, clean up the house, prepare to put it on the market and then leave it for the last time. While doing all of this, my sister Jo said that maybe she would buy the house and move in, but then quickly realized that couldn't happen with her first grandchild on the way in Charlotte N.C. where she also lived. So we all left for our homes, very sad.
The house was put on the market. There were many people that were interested but they all thought the house was outdated and needed too much work for the price.
I woke one morning with the idea that my husband Mike and I should buy the house from my sisters and fix it up. It is a much bigger house than we had and the basement was very appealing to my husband.
So these stories will chronicle the fixing up of Ned and Bonnie Walling's house. I can't quite call it my own yet so we call it the Hayes house