My wife Pam is a member of the Health Share Board and each year we help out with their annual Homes Tour Fundraiser. Yesterday Pam and I along with other Board members and all home owners who have offered their homes to be part of the tour, conducted a preliminary tour of the homes.
The following is from an article that appeared in Friday’s Enterprise:
The first home on the tour is Lower Notley Hall Farm and if you can’t manage to do all of the homes on the tour today, this stop alone would be worth your time to check out. Situated on the Wicomico River, it is a beautifully restored house that is more like a museum with furniture and furnishings that have been passed down thru the family for centuries.
Again from Friday’s Enterprise.
When I saw the owners names listed as Cindy and Jack Pratt, I wondered if that was Buzzy’s Jackie who worked several summers for him at the Store. When Cindy invited folks to check out the third floor I took this photo of the 3 stairwells:
I then asked Cindy if her husband Jack was the same Jack Pratt that I knew. She laughed and said yes. Sure enough, I caught up with him back downstairs where Pam grabbed this photo of us.
Jack filled us in on what he and Cindy had gone through in doing the renovations. In doing so he pointed out the restored plaster walls that another Ridge boy Dwayne Sullivan had recently reworked and restored.
If you visit today and see Brother Jack, tell him that Buzzy would be proud of him.
(The other homes on the tour are also worth a look see even if they don’t have a Ridge/Scotland boy connection. The 7th District is like the 1st District in that you are never too far from the water. All of the homes on today’s tour are on the water and worth checking out. You can also stop at Still Creek Vineyards to get a bite to eat and sample some local wine either before or after you tour the homes. Pam and I are at Amy and Benji Thompson’s home at Stop E on the tour. Drop by if you can.)
I always thought that Al Stewart was singing “On The Water” in this song. Proves again, that what counts in life is what you learn after you know it all.