My Dream Home

 

this adorable house is only 4 blocks from me, and the last time I drove home from the vets office, it was and older home and now look at it.

This is my dream home, Tin Roof, Pink and Aqua, white fence and all...

Looked like this in 1992 when I was selling Real Estate and sold for $2000.00

The home was built in 1931 and remodeled in 2020 for $80,000 total remodel and sold in 2021 for $295,500 sold again in 2023 for 370,000 below is how it looked in

the listing that sold for 370,00. Looks like the new owner added a room and I want it

To see the total remodel follow this Link, you can see what it

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1116-37th-St-W_Bradenton_FL_34205_M53951-85364

Light Bulb Moment

 

AI and I  using Bing Image Creator

I shopped Walmart this past week end, and it only took 30 minutes to get everything on the list. On the way home I pondered why it usually takes an hour to shop and only 1/2 hour this time.

As I pondered, I thought, I did not see a single Walmart Friend today. No night manager, no fun cashier at the self check out, no little Asian lady, no Same age as me lady and no friend from YMCA or the man I worked with before retirement.

 A light bulb moment hit my senior brain, The reason I am done early is......        I talked to NOT ONE PERSON.. I feel cheated... 

But now after having typed this post, I realized how diverse my friends are and that makes me feel happy. 

Cashiers are young, night manager is male and African American, the tiny lady I meet in Publix also, is Asian and has a husband that i the twin to mine, the friend from YMCA is the age of my oldest son and the former co-worker is male and the age of my youngest son.  I LIKE THEM ALL... 

LESSON LEARNED: If I am in a hurry, don't shop at 6 am on Saturday. 

It's Sunday and this is the Baptist church I took photos of on our last Sunday Drive by, Ride the Dog, Cell Phone Shoot from the car windows. 

Cottages on 8th Ave-Bradenton

 

More cottages from 8th Ave early AM cell phone drive by shooting. All spruced up by painting.

Progress In Bradenton, The Friendly City 

After attracting residents from Fogarty Ville, Willemsen burg, and Palma Sola, Bradenton grew the population to 2,000 at the turn of the century. The community was envisioned as a winter resort and shipping center for farm produce. For a time, the local economy was based entirely around sugar and commercial fishing in the nearby Manatee River, further bolstered by the arrival of the Florida West Shore Railroad. 

Over the next two decades, the incoming trains caused the town to prosper with a tourism flourish. As a result, a new city hall and courthouse were constructed. By the middle of the 1910s, tourism was bringing Bradenton $200,000 into the city. The 1920s introduced the town slogan “The Friendly City.” By 1943, the town of Manatee merged with Bradenton.

  Exerts from the Founding and History of Bradenton

Mother rode the train to Savannah and met my dad in 1942, and married in 1943, I was born in 1944, I traveled those trains back and forth from 3 months old to 29 years old, from Savannah to here and back. 1985 Bob and I married in the courthouse mentioned above. 

While riding Beau and taking photos, we saw this bird and I THINK its a Black Crowned Night Heron

Cell phone zoom is just OK not great. My first ever viewing of this bird

Sunday Early AM drive down 8th Ave West

 

It has been years since we drove down 8th Ave West! the houses are all painted and pretty. 

the photos are lacking sunshine, but still pretty. It was too early for them to be painted with sunbeams.

Beau loved looking at them and sniffing those who live there.

These are under the label, drive by. I love old houses! Most of these are from 1920's

to be continued

More Houses Same Street

 

It all started in 2020, Investors started buying homes, remodel and resell, they used bright colors and this made others paint their houses.

Some just painted, others remodeled. the green and blue house remodeled.

this part of the street we would live on except we can't afford it.

The home below I would live in and is my pick of all the houses. Which would you pick? Or is your answer none of these?  Bob hates the color and the house. Go Figure

While Browsing

 

photo from FB marketplace

Sometimes I like to browse FaceBook Market Place, Local Real Estate. I sold Real Estate for four years from 1990 to 1994. I still love looking at houses. Back then there was no ON LINE to browse. We had a book with photos and had to drive around looking. 

The first photo that came up showed the above house, it said it is for rent for 2300.00 per month. The address is about 4 minutes from home. It has been more than 2 years since we last drove the street. I was a few block away after running errands and decided to drive by. LINK to FB page if you want to see inside.

I found two old photos of it before the remodel. I have not done a drive by of this house yet, but will soon. I love it. I was on the street but it did not go all the way through and will have to go try again. Tomorrow you will see the others I found on the same street.

Above 2015, Below 2019 the made a jungle out of the front yard.

Colors Colors Colors

The last of my drive by homes from a couple of weeks ago. Yellow with red door, Green with white door and White with white door and white fence. In Florida any color is OK for your home.

I have a question for you all. When you are shopping in a store, do people ask you for assistance? 

In Wal-Mart, I was standing reading labels, a man about 20 years older than me, stopped and said

"Can I ask you a question?" I said Sure, he said "I have heard I can clean glass with vinegar. Do you know how I would do that?"

If you know me well you know I clean everything with vinegar. Over joyed to share my pet cleaning tips,  I gave him the recipe, directions etc and he said what kind of vinegar. I said come around the corner and I will show you.

He put the white vinegar in his basket and headed to the Dawn aisle. 

The next week, a man walking in front of me, stopped, turned and said. "Do you know where I might find a....um.... you know, the thing you hang around your neck and it protects your clothes when you are cooking?

I laughed and said Apron? Yes, he says, Apron.! I need an Apron.

I said I have never seen one in Wal-Mart and turned to leave, I got half an aisle away and turned and went back and said. "Try the garden shop. You know the grills and all the accessories."

He hustled off smiling. Leaving me to wonder if they do have them in the garden shop.

This happens to me at least a couple times a month in Wal-Mart. 

Popular Styles in the 1920's

Back in the Good Old Days, every home had a porch. There was nothing to do inside the homes when summer heat came. The porch was a refuge. The best ones were screened in. Bugs Love Florida.

My grandmothers porch looked like the one above. Remove the brick and the white columns and it is just like it. The swing below my grandfather built in the 20's and it hung on the porch until 1969 when my grandmother died. Mother took it to Savannah, GA from here, and it hung on the back porch until she died in 1990, and I bought it back here and it sat on our pool deck for several months until Bob hung it. Sadly, not on a porch it fell apart a few years ago.

I spent hours swinging and reading on my grandmothers porch and hours I did not enjoy sitting on it in Savannah, shelling peas and corn and snapping green beans. Sadly I no longer look like I did 28 years ago. Max died in 2002.

city park across from these homes

Sunshine Helps

Tiny, cute homes are always enhanced by bright Sunshine and Shadows. my drive by continues.

Peoples in sleeping bags, are the tacos of the bear world... heh heh heh

Color me Happy Camper, This is how we ROLL

I could live in the tiny home above, could you? Even parked in a park, I could live in this home on wheels. RV having fun yet?
and when on the road I would be the one saying RV there yet?

Happy 51st Birthday to my son Daniel.... Yes, I had him when I was TEN....

For Sale..

My drive by home collection continues... these two are for sale. Notice they both have pretty painted doors.

Which one would you pick?

Either one or neither one?

What is your favorite style Home?

My favorite style is log cabin HEREhttp://snapperone.blogspot.com/2013/07/dream-home-in-ormond-beach.html or Cracker Style HERE  the style my grandmother lived in, actually both grandmothers. I like OLD and Rustic.