From Mid-Elementary to All Grown Up

241 Connolly Street, West Lafayette, Indiana

 I think this home is beautiful! I love the light green siding, and how crisp and neat the home looks. Obviously, it has owners who care about it and take pride in its maintenance.

The upstairs dormer window on the west side of the home (above) was in Fern's bedroom. (Her parents had the east.) The Honeywells resided here from the time she was nine until she was twenty-one.

She told me that there had, until just recently, been a large oak tree in the front yard outside her bedroom window that was frequented by squirrels. Her father built a platform and an extension out to the tree so the squirrels could hop out of the tree and come to dinner. The animals became quite tame. One day she didn't have anything else to offer them but stale candy Easter eggs - they did not like that! Unfortunately, one of them fell down the chimney one day, and that was the end of my mother's squirrel feeding days! (Although, if you were to ask her now about the squirrels at her current home...)

My mom says about that tree:

The oak tree was just removed within the past year. The driveway had buckled around it, and had narrowed so it was impassable without infringing on the neighbors. Bet it cost a pretty penny to remove it.