Early Recycler. 

  View of valley from front lawn.  

So many things about that house were unusual.  The big picture windows in the front were from the old Southern Pacific Depo in Watsonville. All the windows were recycled. Some were sash and others were dropped open with a short chain. He built closests into each of the bedrooms and the foundation was in fact, rail road ties he leavered under the  building.  When a local nursery closed, Dad made a deal on rose bushes and lined the front lawn with  them.  There was the brick walkway, all recycled from a Victorian torn down localy . And that  front door, an old Dutch door, was open  all summer long. I think he had every tool known to man, and his electric saw it seemed, hummed  every day.


Just a note :  Those Railroad ties he had used for a foundation were it's ultimate  demise , as the house jumped off of them during the 89 quake and had to be demolished. Thank God Mom sold it in 86.

View of from fount lawn. That's me, my Sister Gretchen and Grandma Holms.

Old Dutch door