702 Douglas Avenue and 106 Church Street

As Diana and I look around at houses, we both have discussed how spoiled we were growing up. I would love to have either our Henning or our Alcester homes now. They were spacious, they had lawns big enough for gardens and for playing catch or running around, they had big open basements for kids to hang out in, they had a place to play basketball, they had lots of rooms, they had clean air from the rural outdoors, they had dishwashers, they were as warm and cool as they needed to be, they had good beds and furniture, they were kept clean and tidy, they were organized, they had TVs and computers, and they were stable and peaceful. I do know some of the efforts that went into it, from scrubbing the kitchen floor to renovating the basement bathroom in Alcester. I know you often didn’t appreciate living in houses we did not ‘own’, but the houses we grew up in were great homes.