{"id":3061,"date":"2022-12-07T19:52:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poagao.org\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2022-12-07T19:53:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:53:47","slug":"the-new-213-biscayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poagao.org\/2022\/the-new-213-biscayne\/","title":{"rendered":"The New 213 Biscayne"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>From Google Streetview I gleaned that the house where I spent most of my formative years, a two-story house built in 1960 in El Lago, Texas, has been extensively remodeled, most likely due to flooding damage as the area is pretty much at sea level and sinking. I realize I’ve written about it before, but I recently found a tour of the inside of the old house on a realty site<\/a>, and hoo boy did they do a number on it.<\/p>\n Outside, the old cracked driveway where our 1969 Buick Electra and 1972 Pinto were parked is now newly laid white concrete. All the tudor-esque 1960’s windows have been replaced with more storm-resistant but rather boring frames. Most of the old trees in front are gone, and many of the backyard ones as well. A patch of bare grass is the only sign of the old shed and pear tree that used to stand there. The concrete semicircle that was once our vegetable garden is now full of trees; one of the photos is taken from where my old fort was located, a place where many delicious afternoons were spent reading and snacking on peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches after school. The house is now painted blue, as it has been since not long after we moved away in 1981; no doubt the new owners didn’t appreciate me writing things like “Please take care of Grey Kitty” on the sides of the house, nor the mustard yellow color we painted it (believe it not, that<\/em> was an improvement on the original dark brown, complete with orange front door, resulting in a very Halloween-esque vibe). Grey Kitty was a local cat who made her home with us when we lived there, and I was quite fond of her. My parents decided she wouldn’t be coming with us to Florida, but the elderly couple who bought the house from us assured us they would take care of her, and as far as I know they did. But I was a sentimental child and wanted to make sure.<\/p>\n