The Tear Down

There's been quite a bit of building going on around Gull Lake. The two houses next to my parents both sold last year after (or maybe the year before) and then both of them sold for at least close to a million dollars. This place is insane.

The house directly next door to mine was completely torn down, and now a overly large green house stands in it's place boasting what will be highly manicured lawns. It's kind of spectacular. And the new fence kind of makes part of our yard wash away. Moving on.

The house next to the new big green house was recently sold. The man who bought it owns some plethora of companies somewhere in Richville, USA and now he's come to town. His wife didn't even look at the house or the property on which it stands on (she just wanted him to tell her when it was all destroyed and ready to build).

I used to actually stand on the property quite a bit as a child. I made friends with the grandsons (one of which was my age) who stayed many a summer day with their grandparents on the lake. So I'd kind of bob over to the property line and yell "Deeeeeeeeeeeeiteeeeer" and then eventually he'd come running out ready to ride bikes or swim or build a fort in the raspberry bushes or perhaps just sit on the stone fence watching cars go by. It never occurred to me to knock.

So anyway, now is the end of an era, because it's pretty much gone. Soon there will be another monstrosity to take it's place.