Oasiskel's Profile

We (hubby n me!) are completely remodeling a 1910 country cottage that started as a one room plus a bathroom on a few wooded acres. It was added onto in 1920 and is now a 2/1 with an eat-in kitchen! Being in Joplin, MO… our property was ravished by the May 2001 tornado that destroyed so many lives actually snuffed out in an instant that day and in the following horrific days of the aftermath.
But that Class 5 Tornado was literally Off the charts and there was no higher category for it and the absolute trauma, victimization, future fears and terrors of all storms, survivors guilt mixed with those suffering from extreme PTSD - of living through the storm but loosing every single thing around them. The houses reduced to spit balls n kindling and the all the old trees across town pulled up by the roots, n stripped of bark, limbs twisted and devoid of all leaves and sap. Any trees left in the ground were left there too sick to continue their life cycle.
So there are some trees left on our property, but all in all? My woods - were thinned out! Not much of the old growth left.
All of the big old oaks and maples and the very matured landscaping and hard scaping of our actual YARD about a a quarter of an acre to a half acre…was all ripped out by the Tornado. So it’s going to be pretty much a clean slate.

I have a pretty good idea of we want. And now will be finishing up the inside as we build the exterior zones - which includes - my very treehouse! Yippee!!