Got to meet Holli!

[sundine2]

So Saturday I drove down to Louisville , picked up my friend Linda , went to Lynn's Paradise Cafe for breakfast and then......got lost trying to find Holli's house. Pheww....got back on track and pulled up to her and her lovely husband Tom's house. We got the grand tour! Wow...it is HUGE!!! Room after room after more rooms...And when they get it done...it will be fabulous...They are brave brave souls but the bones of this house are magnificent. The trim is so unique and NOT painted...they are so lucky. Fireplaces in every room....gorgeous too. AND their new gutters....wow...great job done on those.
Thank you Holli and Tom for putting up with Linda and I. We enjoyed the tour and meeting your sons. Oh and Izzy and puppers too...
Hope you enjoyed the bread...best toasted then smeared with butter...


Teri

[jklare]

Was just in Louisville this weekend as well, staying with a friend from college in Butchertown. There are so many great old neighborhoods in Louisville begging for good homeowners, and the downtown area is really seeing a great deal of turnaround.

[Thomolli]

Teri,

Thank you for the kind description of our home. We loved having you and Linda! As you know most people just don't "get" the love we have for our old houses and it was a real pleasure to be able to give y'all the tour! We hope to become a regular stop when you make it down this way!

I don't know how to thank you for the bread!!! OMG! I am a bread person anyway but this stuff is what sweet dreams are made of. Teri or maybe Linda says "it's cranberry walnut bread", and I think like a sweet type bread. NO! I nice dense loaf of yeast bread chock full of cranberries and walnuts. Toast it, smooth some butter (the real stuff) over the top and did I say, OMG?!! Is it polite to pressure your guests into divulging recipes? TELL, TELL, I say!

jklare, I wish we had known you were coming we would have loved to have gotten to meet you also.

Teri, we hope you and Linda will return often, jklare and any other OHW'ers if you are going to be in our neck of the woods we would love to meet you and give the "tour"!

And total shame on us for not getting a photo together while you were here!

[lavender_bush]

And total shame on us for not getting a photo together while you were here!

Shame indeed, although we don't have a record of meeting Civil War Seamstress or Jade

My Brother In Law and his family own a house on Longest Ave, not bad for a couple of old house lovers from England and Wales via Massachusetts. Maybe we'll have the time and opportunity to meet you both when we visit Louisville - which hopefully will be sooner rather than later.

Alyson

[jklare]

more accolades for the 'ville! I have to say, living in Lexington, where there probably are only about 2,000 pre-1920 homes left near downtown (and 95% of those are way out of my price range) and there are 10-20 GOOD restaurants, I'm starting to get jealous of all you Louisvillians.

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