Ordinary Beauty

It sounds like we may have a real buyer for mom and dad’s home in Malo, Washington. Problem is, the buyer can’t afford the entire 140 acres, and so, we might lob off 40 acres and create a parcel small enough that the buyer can afford. To do so, I might HAVE TO acquire a chunk of those 40 acres, adding it onto the 31.36 acres I previously received from their Estate. The way it pencils out, it’s kind of a good thing, from my point of view. It would mean that I would also own the entirety of the road that traverses the piece I already own, plus, an apple tree.

What’s the big deal about an apple tree? Well, this particular part of the land was, some 100 years or so ago, a homestead. Most all that remains of it are three ancient apple trees (that still produce) and a moonshiner’s cabin (it’s not much of a cabin, just some old walls–truly ramshackle). The cabin is on the acreage I already own; having one of the apple trees, too, would just somehow be some perfect, romantic, punctuation to the place.