Surprise visit

Ms. Landscape Person and I were out in the front yard this morning when a woman pulled up to the house and asked if she could take a picture of my house. Both her mother and her aunt had lived here at various times.

Her mother, Carol Smith (now of Kansas City) was with her. Mrs. Smith lived in my house from 1939 to 1944, between the ages of 9 and 15. She attended Hawthorne Elementary, one block over, Taft Junior High and then old Classen High School. I thought she might have known my parents or grandparents — she's about the same age my dad would be if he were still alive — but she didn't recognize their names.

I invited her on a tour of the grounds, but I didn't let her go inside. That would have been too much for her to bear.

I asked her to send me some photos of the house from the late thirties/early forties, and she said she would when she gets home.