okay Jerry uh could you tell me what what type of a house you have
well at the moment i have a little vacation house back in the woods and it's brick and it has it's pine paneled
uh
and it's a vacation home
well kind of because it's temporary
oh i see
okay and it but if you know if you want to talk about other kinds of homes my husband uh son is a builder
in Oklahoma City and he was visiting a couple of weeks ago so we went around to see all uh the homes that how they build homes in Charlotte
okay so are you new to are you're new to Charlotte
what kind of materials they use
kind of originally from this area uh from Virginia uh area but yeah
oh okay
uh
but moved here from Oklahoma City
originally from Oklahoma City
well no but we spent twenty years in Oklahoma we're a mobile society
wow twenty years is a long time
yes it is to love it
um
so yours is your home right now is typical of the ones that are in the area
well in the immediate area because we're in the county with the uh
uh farmers kind of farmers they're about you know around ninety already eighty nine or ninety but their children have grown up and they have built then more contemporary
are more uh uh kind some ostentatious homes
huh
okay
uh but all traditional they're they're uh they're some are contemporary contemporary but mostly traditional
yeah yeah oh
how about your home
um
are you interested in uh
it's uh it's a salt box that's a it's a it's a New England
oh gosh
type
uh i was born and brought up in the area that that i lived in and it was very rural and there was nothing there but uh
uh farms
uh-huh
uh or orchards one or the other you know there was a lot of apple orchards so when we decided to build we built
uh-huh
about thirteen years ago uh we looked for a home and the things that we were seeing were
uh not up to my standards they were still building homes back then like they have for
a hundred and fifty years you know the very little insulation in the walls and very little insulation in the ceiling so
yes um-hum
that doesn't work these days
yeah and it was uh
it wasn't what we wanted so we did some research and i knew the land there's a lot of ledge up here so you have to be careful
um-hum
uh their septic systems when there's no uh uh public sewer system
there is water however so we picked out a piece of land that we liked and bought it and then we decided to build so we we did a lot of research like i said and we
and we built a typical New England salt box in the area and when we built we were the first home there there was like about
ten acres of oak forest around us
oh my
and it was absolutely gorgeous uh since then however they've torn it all down and we're surrounded by homes you know that's a that's another long story
yes
yes
but we're the only typical New England home in the area there's a lot of there's an English Tudor right next to us and there's uh there's a colonial our street's on just a short street there's only like six homes on it
uh-huh
and there's a uh an English colonial down on the corner and the rest are raised ranches and you know the typical uh home
yes
but we built ours um we made uh we did it ourselves uh i sent uh uh
some rough plans out to an architect to have him draw it up and then i subbed out the things that i couldn't do like i had a crew come in and frame it and i did the rest i did the inside the wiring the plumbing and uh you know
um-hum
sure
my goodness
so we built the walls huh
you are multitalented
you are multitalented
uh my dad had built a couple when we were growing up so kind of got used to it and we did a lot of research
uh-huh
sure
sure well if you were to do it uh again today what would you have done differently
name things say
uh
we made the kitchen a working kitchen i think i would've made the kitchen uh a lot bigger because both of us like to cook
uh-huh
uh-huh
and right now a working kitchen is very efficient but
two people kind of get in each other's way yeah it's similar to a galley kitchen yeah and then we have uh a like a little dining area off that we have a formal dining room
is that like a galley kitchen
uh-huh
uh-huh
um i've since added onto the house we've got like uh uh looks like an old rustic uh log cabin on the inside
uh it's all natural wood the ceiling's pine the walls are pine you know it's uh one of those type kick around rooms
um-hum
um-hum
and we put a greenhouse on it it was uh designed to be heated by the sun
yes how does that work in the winter
um it works fine as long as you don't put any plants in it
exactly it burns it up i'm a plant uh former plant person and uh business uh-huh so uh you know
yes
oh are you
oh
we raise orchids
oh my
which is a little bit tough to do up here in the north but it's a solar greenhouse we put up you know like the walls are six inches thick
yeah yeah well do you not have shade cloths and so forth and
uh-huh well
no no we used uh fiberglass we're faced the the greenhouse faces solar south
yeah yeah
and it's it's double glazed fiberglass with a one inch airspace in between it
yeah
so it's kind of opaque we don't use shading on it um but we do have to uh have air a lot of air movement even in the wintertime it can get uh brutally hot in there
so the way it was designed was to uh
uh i put a four foot foundation under it and put in twenty two ton of rock with with uh hot air piped through it
um-hum
and all day long it just heats up and then at night it just gives it back into the house
well great great
so it's it's not bad it's it's uh
i'd like a little bit warm land i'd like to go up further north and i'd like to instead of having a salt box i'd like to have it all on on one floor
yes
well come south and uh you will already you will be watching the azaleas bloom and go they are just about gone this time of the year
that's right you guys must yeah because the actually the winter hasn't been really bad
we're all
no huh-uh everything's green all the leaves are out and all that
so it's pret ty
so you got your garden planted
my spinach
yeah sir
it's it's probably gotten just a little bit too warm now we have trouble up here with uh uh
really
well for not summer crops summer crops it's uh it's really not time to plant okra not quite the ground isn't warm enough but uh
some of those
yeah no i uh i put down black plastic
um-hum
um-hum
to help heat it up you know put it on the radishes and spinach but spinach kind of bolts quick on us so we put it Swiss chard instead yeah
yeah right get that out early um-hum um-hum
so anyhow that's what we've done for our house we've left it all natural so there's no upkeep you know it's white cedar shingle
sure yeah
and the trim is stained so i don't have to go out and scrape and paint
because i figured when i got old and retire i don't want to be working i don't be a slave to the home
no no you don't want to be on ladders do you
you don't want to be on a ladder
um right right because that peek is twenty eight feet high and you come off twenty eight feet and it hurts so
um-hum
um-hum
well it certainly has been enjoyable talking to you this morning and uh hope to hear from you again sometime if they do that
yes you too
okay yeah all right you take care okay bye-bye
good-bye thank you
