[AT] uncomfortable houses

[Gene Dotson]

    Herb;

    My house is older and originally built as a cracker box with kitchen and 
living room on the first floor, with 1 small bedroom upstairs. It was added 
on to the west side with a large living room downstairs and same size 
bedroom upstairs. Stairway very narrow and impossible to get a mattress or 
chest of drawers up the stairs. Had to bring them over the side porch roof 
and take out the window and take then through there. The living room was 
very big, so last winter I walled off a little less than half of it to make 
my bedroom downstairs. Sure do like it a lot better now. Seldom go up those 
narrow, steep steps now.

                Gene




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herb Metz" <metz-h.b at comcast.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] uncomfortable tractor; houses


> Chuck mentions being part squirrel back then.
> The uncomfortable tractor situation has parallels in housing.   Space is a
> premium here in Forsyth County, GA. so too many homes built in last 
> fifteen
> years are two story.   People moving into the area had little choice and 
> too
> frequently wound up with a two story house without a bedroom on the main
> floor. Many are now beginning to realize the importance of that error.
> We were fortunate in that our first priority was several acres of 
> reasonably
> flat ground.  We were lucky and have five acres of reasonably flat ground
> and couple bedrooms on main floor.
> Herb
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Chuck Bealke
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:15 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] most uncomfortable to drive tractor
> Y'all,
> 'Tis indeed vexing how tractor mounting and other stretch exercises wane
> with age.  The light and bouncy AC B and the Farmall A mentioned here as
> hard to mount are in fact that way, but when I wuz a teen, didn't think
> a bit 'bout bending, climbing or stretching to get on either one.
> Climbing up to view gas or water level on a Farmall H was a bigger
> stretch.  Compared to now, was part squirrel back then.
> Chuck Bealke
> Dallas
>
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