The photos got scrambled when I put them onto the blog template and, since it took me forever and many tries to get the pictures loaded, I got tired of fighting them so I just let them find their own order!
Also, my apologies for the formatting lunacies. It's 1 a.m. and I'm going to bed without fixing them because they don't seem to want to be fixed and it could take all night if I tried!
Hope this gives a glimpse of where I run off to and, perhaps, an understanding of why!
My favorite house in my favorite neighborhood in Enid. I would hope that any house I renovated would end up this cute!
The old Enid train station. This building was vacant for as long as I can remember until recently when they found a wonderful use for it: the Farmer's Market. I always wanted to fix up this building -- even in high school!
Enid High School. Class of 1984! We ALL went to Enid High: my parents, Mark's mother, Mark's son, all our siblings. My step-grandfather graduated in the class of 1914 from this very building (built in 1911) which just got air conditioning in the last few years. It was barbaricly hot! But you've got to love a school with vintage features, marble bathrooms, and an observatory on the roof! I wouldn't trade it!
One of the houses we have our eye on. It's abandoned. It's purple. It has amazing woodwork and all those wonderful sunroom windows. We think we could buy it for somewhere in the range of $12,000 - $20,000! It would be a FUN project!
Another of the houses we are interested in renovating. Price tag: $36,000 for 2700 square feet! I LOVE Enid real estate prices!
One of Enid's wheat elevators. When you're in the middle of wheat country you need someplace to put all that wheat!
DeWitt Waller Junior High School. This is where Mark and I met. This is where it all started!
Inside Waller Junior High. Down that hallway is where Mark and I first laid eyes on each other. He remembers it. I don't.
My grandfather's office was in this building for decades. The same little old lady operated the elevator for my entire life! It was always special to get to go to Papa's office!
3101 Whippoorwill Lane. We called this "the house on the hill". This is where I lived from age 12 to age 18. The trees were little then. It was the last house in the neighborhood which kinda made it the last house in town. There was a wheat field and a horse pasture behind it when we lived there (now there are houses which is still weird to me).
Mark's parents' house. Mark cooking hamburgers out front. This is where we hang out when we're in town.
Mark's family has lived here since 1973 when he was 8.
Another of the old Enid train station (Wow! A two-train station town!). Just included it because I think it's fun architecture... and because it says "Enid"!
One of the three tall buildings in Enid's downtown. The second floor ballroom (far left in the photo) is where we had most of our high school dances -- AND our wedding reception!
The Garfield County Courthouse. Our marriage license came from here. Mark says the jail in on the top floor. I'm not sure how he knows that.
Our ugly, dinky library on the main square. Last year the roof caved in. But they fixed it. Darn!
My step-father's store was just across the street.
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LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! I wish I had taken as many pics when I was visiting my parents....I'd love to get into that purple abandoned house with you!
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