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[1155]

{D Well } Carol since today's subject is our homes, /why don't you tell me about yours. /

[1085]

Okay, /I live in Plano, in a four bedroom, two bath house, which is the area's dominantly three bedroom, two bath. /{C So, } I'm just a little bit different than typical, {F uh, } /{C and } of course, the Plano area is basically with alleyways, /{C so } everything around here is set up that way. Which I think is a little bit different than most areas, in the houses, the way they're constructed. /{C And } it's a brick house, with, {F uh, } some wood. /It's real nice, /I like it . /How about you? /

[1155]

{D Well } [ I, + I ] certainly hope so. /We have [ a, + a ] classic ranch, up in Denton. /Ranch style home, [ I shou-, + I would ] hate to think that anybody thought, {F uh, } the lot we live on as a ranch. /{F Uh, } it's in a subdivision and one story. /It started out life as a three bedroom house, and now has no two car garage and has, {F uh, } the two extra rooms enclosed. /I suppose we still only have three effective bedrooms /{C but } we gained a playroom for the kids and an office out of enclosing the garage. /

[1085]

Are most of the houses in your area three bedroom, two bath? /

[1155]

Almost a hundred percent. /

[1085]

.

[1155]

[ I, + I ] can't think of any four bedroom houses in the subdivision. /Ours is probably the closest to it. /You know how realtors are, /they'll say, {F oh } this could be five bedrooms. /Yeah, /if you had two people that don't have any clothes it could be a five bedroom house, /

[1085]

Yeah, /(( to )) . -/

[1155]

don't need a closet . /

[1085]

The only thing about mine, {F um, } I think there's probably about, {F oh, } when I go down the street I can just pick out houses [ that are, + that are ] identical to mine /{C and } usually they are the four bedroom, {F um, } /{C but } they're spaced out, {F oh } I'd say maybe three, on a two block period. /{C Because } it's all different builders up here. /{C So } it's kind of hard at that point to, {D you know, } classify some of the builders. /{C But } most of the builders all built three, two. /{C But } the one thing, my house is a little bit different /{C and } I can pick it out again because it's not typical, /[ is + ] I've got the, {F oh, } what do you call a, {F uh, } double ceiling, double high in one half of the house. /{C So } like the den and the living room are all double cathedral ceilings. /

[1155]

{F Uh, } cathedral ceilings. /

[1085]

{C And, } {F uh, } the kitchen is norm /{C and } the bedrooms are norm. /{C So } it just goes down the dining room, the family room, and the living room that way. /{C And } I love the space. /[ It just, + it's, ] {F uh, } - /luckily I came from a house in Colorado which had the cathedral ceiling /{C and } I just lucked out and walked into this one /{C and } of course I felt the same airy feeling, which I liked it real well, /{C so } it's a nice thing to move into, /{C but, } again, it's not typical in this area. /You can just spot them because [ the ce-, + the roof ] is so [ hi-, + much higher. ] /{C But, } {F uh, } -/

[1155]

{D Well } I hadn't thought about it in that sense, of the high roofs. /We have cathedral ceilings in, {F uh, } two rooms. In the, {F uh, } family room and in the master bedroom /{C and } those [ are, + are ] pleasant. /

[1085]

Yeah. /{D Well } it's like when my son goes [ up into the, + up into the ] furnace area over the garage. /

[1155]

Yeah. /

[1085]

He can walk /{C and } he's six foot. /{C And } he says, {F oh, } come on up mom. I'm not going up there . /

[1155]

.

[1085]

I'm not going up there, /{C but } he says there's plenty of room up there for a room. /{C So } that means if I knock out the wall in my family room, I could make another room overlooking my family room from upstairs with no problem. /{C But, } {F um, } I'm not that ambitious. /I tol-, - /maybe someday when I feel really ambitious and [ an-, + get angry ] I'll start poking holes up there, but until that time . /{C But, } {F uh, } I've noticed the houses around here [ are basically, + {A it's one story } {C and } they're all basically ] two, {F uh, } bath, [ two, + ] {F uh, } with three bedrooms. /{C And } we're - /[ [ ninety, + I would say [ about, + {F oh, } about ] ninety-five ] percent, + {E no } I guess [ may-, + probably ] a hundred percent ] of them all are mostly brick, {F uh, } with some wood. /

[1155]

Right. /

[1085]

{C But } [ it's, + it's ] basically all brick. /The next subdivision over from me is total brick /{C and } the one on the other side of me is about the same as mine. /{C But, } {F uh, } the one on opposite the street now, they're total brick /{C and } they're basically almost all three, two. /They're all three, two. /{C But } of course they have a little river going down their area too, which is kind of nice . /

[1155]

If it's the kind of river I'm thinking of, better [ them, + [ than, + than ] ] us, {D you know } . /Are you talking about [ a, + a ] real river, creek? /

[1085]

No /it's a creek, /they've put little fountains in and such. /

[1155]

{D Well } that's nice. /{F Uh, } I came from Mississippi recently /{C and } the rivers that we had there were the ones that came with the rains /{C and } they didn't pay [ any, + any ] attention to banks and that kind of stuff. /

[1085]

Oh. /

[1155]

{C So } you're just as likely to [ fl-, + ] wake up and discover you're in two inches of water. /

[1085]

Do you have [ a lot of property, + {E I mean } a lot of yard around your house ] now, in Denton? /

[1155]

{F Uh, } it's a third of an acre. /I don't think that's a lot, {F uh, } /in fact, I have been real disappointed in the six years that I've lived out here about lot sizes . /I'm more accustomed to a one acre lot being a standard and the two acre being what most people have. /

[1085]

Yeah, /when you get down closer in to the newer tract homes you find almost like there's no lot line at all. /They're built practically on top of each other. /

[1155]

That's true. /

[1085]

I know, I was, /

[1155]

[ {C An, } + {C and } ] [ while, + while ] there are some advantages to that, there's less time spent outside making it look nice and taking care of things. /{F Uh, } I just feel hemmed in by that. /It's not as comfortable a living for me. /

[1085]

Uh-huh. /{D Well } this subdivision here has got, - /{F oh, } there's enough to put, {F oh, } I'd say, {F uh, } [ what, + ] twelve feet between each house on each side. /{D Well, } I've got more on one side than I've got on the other, /{C but } I'm like you, /I came down from Colorado /{C and } there was more land up there around a yard with a big full back yard, which here, I look out my back yard and I can see the gate. /{E I mean } the fence is right there, /{E I mean } just don't run too fast, /{C or } you'll hit it /{C and } I'm not used to that either. /{E I mean } I could see people putting swimming pools in the back yard all around me, /{C but } to me, you put the swimming pool in your back yard /{C and } you've lost your back yard. /

[1155]

Entirely. /

[1085]

{E I mean, } {F uh, } sure, /{E I mean } you've got a little place on one side or the other, /{C but, } {F uh, } to me they're not that big enough for a pool, /{C but, } {D you know, } they're going up, /[ {C so. } + {C But } ] [ it's, + {F uh, } it's ] great for mowing . /

[1155]

[ Fro-, + from ] that aspect, you're right. /[ {C And, } + {C and } ] it doesn't take nearly as long to get out there and weed it by hand and that kind of stuff. /

[1085]

{C But } yes, /I'm used to, {F uh, } walking out the back yard /{C and } you can play catch across the back yard /{C and } you've got plenty of room to even play a small game of baseball, but, don't do it around here. /

[1155]

No, /the one, - /that's sort of what drove me to Denton ,

[1085]

.

[1155]

when I first came out here in eighty-five. /I started looking /{C and } it seemed like the further I got away from Dallas, center, {F uh, } the more lot came with the house [ and, + and ] the lower the price, at the same time. /{C And } it just seemed like there was a ten thousand dollar drop for each city. /

[1085]

I hadn't thought about it that way. /

[1155]

[ {C S-, } + {C so } ] moving up thirty-five, I stopped when I got to Denton. {F Uh. } /

[1085]

It ju-, - /{D well } {D see } {D now, } with our jobs mainly hitting downtown Dallas we couldn't go too much further, /{C but, } [ we pra-, + we went ] that way. /It was the schools and the cost of houses, /{C so } we kept going out until we figured we hit a point where we need the traffic, time to get into work, /{C and } that's where we stopped. /It was the [ tham-, + ] same problem. /{C But } I think Plano's, -/

[1155]

[ You all both, + you all both ] work downtown? /

[1085]

I got layed off by T I . /

[1155]

{F Oh, } {D well, } this is a wonderful thing [ that, + that ] you're doing here still helping them out. /

[1085]

{F Oh, } I ye-, -/

[1155]

{F Uh, } {C but } you were working downtown. /

[1085]

No, /I was working at the Dallas site. /My ex-husband was working downtown. /

[1155]

Oh. /