20/06/2025
There are two big trees out the front of the house we grew up in. One of them was there since I can remember (the one over the drive) and the larger one next to it we planted.
My folks moved into this house when I was a baby. And my brother came soon after.
As we were packing up today one of the new owners came for a pre-settlement inspection. She had her newborn, and her other son was in the new day care just up the road, already in a new daycare with the planned move.
Her hubby is a plumber, and they are working out what to do with carpets and which walls are structural so they can modify the house to suit their needs and modern life better.
But… they love the trees and the garden, as messy as it is. We talked about the mango out the front, the macadamia tree out the back and the galangal near the back door. The grapes and the coffee plant, the fig that came from my grandfathers house after he died.
And I pointed out the giant casuarina tree that is out the front, the big one in the picture that we planted that was our Christmas tree one year.
There is a saying that the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, and the second best time is right now.
Well I hope this new family in our old house can chop out the bits that don’t suit them, live the bits that do, eat the food that is growing there and that in 50 years that little baby I met today can also write a post about having a great time growing up with his brother in a wonderful neighborhood and how happy they are the house is going to a great family.