My Grandparents

On Monday when I arrived in Port Alberni for a visit, I went out to my sisters property. It is the five acres that was my grandparents, that my mom inherited and just finalized a sale this last week to my sister and her fiance. While I was visiting the property for the first time since it has started getting makeover, my mom told me a bit of history of our family. Aparrantly many years ago, on of my granpa's work buddies won a piece of land in a poker game. Because it was so far out of town though (only a 10 minute drive now, but back then transportation was more difficult) he was complaining about it. My grandpa (having some foresight) said he would trade him straight up for my granpa and grandma's house in town. He agreed. My grandparents lived in a little house while they built a better one. While he was doing that (building the house with his own two hands) he talked to a guy that owned more land, and bought 10 more acres. My grandpa proceeded to build a couple more houses on the area of land. (he was a logger by proffession, but I guess he knew some carpentry as well). he sold off some of the land and houses but kept five acres. This is the land my mom grew up in. Since my grandfather died 16 years ago, the land has sat empty. A small forest had grown over everything. When my grandmother passed away last summer, my mom inherited the property. My sisters fiance is a logger, so it is only fitting that they purchased the property and fix it up. The amazing thing is that the house still stand on that land, and seems relatively sturdy (although definately not liveable). The old barn and outhouse feel down with relative ease. The whole family is quite excited that something is happening with the property, and the neighbours (many of which were around or are descendants of those around in my grandparents age) have shown an interest and stopped by to visit. Anyways I just wanted to share a bit about my family history...it is neat for me to learn these things. Mom, if you read this and anything is innacurate (which is very well might be in the details) just let me know...
Later all, have fun,
Jer