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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Discovery at Moonshine Hill

The place had been abandoned for quite some time...the Sullivan family, (Not the  previous resident Moonshiners) Rachael and Clint had lived there for 50 years.  They grew tobacco in the hills surrounding the house. They owned 150 acres all around the then white clapboard house with two front doors...I never understood that one.  By the time I came into the picture on Memorial Day 2000 the farm was so overgrown and imagining it like that today is totally inposible.  I purchased it at an ABSOLUTE AUCTION for $112,000.00 All 22 acres.  My every thought during the day was all about  improving the place and what small improvement could I afford this month!!!   Since the staircase had fellen to the ground and the toilet had fallen through the floor I just cried...WHAT HAVE I DONE!!!   I had just gotten a divorce after 9 years of marrige to someone that said to me daily...call the BANK this morning and see if we have anything on RETURN.  I decided to pre qualify for a house and I qualified for $127,000.00.  My thought  at the time was to buy the worst house in the best part of town and I did just that!  My good credit was a thing of the past and my dreams of hillbilliy adventures seamed more realistic as I had no indoor plumbing and no way to get upstairs...and kinda scared to after that happened.  I had a bed in the center of the floor that I always kept made...don't do that today but I Ifelt that was the only thing I could control at the time.

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