[speaker001:] okay Jerry uh could you tell me what what type of a house you have
[speaker002:] well at the moment I have a little vacation house back in the woods and it's brick and it has it's pine paneled
[speaker001:] uh and it's a vacation home
[speaker002:] well kind of because it's temporary
[speaker001:] oh I see
[speaker002:] okay and it but if you know if you want to talk about other kinds of homes my husband uh son is a builder in Oklahoma City and he was visiting a couple of weeks ago so we went around to see all uh the homes that how they build homes in Charlotte
[speaker001:] okay so are you new to are you're new to Charlotte
[speaker002:] what kind of materials they use  kind of originally from this area uh from Virginia uh area but yeah
[speaker001:] oh okay uh
[speaker002:] but moved here from Oklahoma City
[speaker001:] originally from Oklahoma City
[speaker002:] well no but we spent twenty years in Oklahoma we're a mobile society
[speaker001:] wow twenty years is a long time
[speaker002:] yes it is to love it
[speaker001:] um so yours is your home right now is typical of the ones that are in the area
[speaker002:] well in the immediate area because we're in the county with the uh uh farmers kind of farmers they're about you know around ninety already eighty nine or ninety but their children have grown up and they have built then more contemporary are more uh uh kind some ostentatious homes
[speaker001:] huh okay
[speaker002:] uh but all traditional they're they're uh they're some are contemporary contemporary but mostly traditional
[speaker001:] yeah yeah oh
[speaker002:] how about your home
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] are you interested in uh
[speaker001:] it's uh it's a salt box that's a it's a it's a New England
[speaker002:] oh gosh
[speaker001:] type uh I was born and brought up in the area that that I lived in and it was very rural and there was nothing there but uh  uh farms
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh or orchards one or the other you know there was a lot of apple orchards so when we decided to build we built
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] about thirteen years ago uh we looked for a home and the things that we were seeing were uh not up to my standards they were still building homes back then like they have for a hundred and fifty years you know the very little insulation in the walls and very little insulation in the ceiling so
[speaker002:] yes um-hum that doesn't work these days
[speaker001:] yeah and it was uh it wasn't what we wanted so we did some research and I knew the land there's a lot of ledge up here so you have to be careful
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh their septic systems when there's no uh uh public sewer system there is water however so we picked out a piece of land that we liked and bought it and then we decided to build so we we did a lot of research like I said and we and we built a typical New England salt box in the area and when we built we were the first home there there was like about ten acres of oak forest around us
[speaker002:] oh my
[speaker001:] and it was absolutely gorgeous uh since then however they've torn it all down and we're surrounded by homes you know that's a that's another long story
[speaker002:] yes yes
[speaker001:] but we're the only typical New England home in the area there's a lot of there's an English Tudor right next to us and there's uh there's a colonial our street's on just a short street there's only like six homes on it
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and there's a uh an English colonial down on the corner and the rest are raised ranches and you know the typical uh home
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] but we built ours um we made uh we did it ourselves uh I sent uh uh some rough plans out to an architect to have him draw it up and then I subbed out the things that I couldn't do like I had a crew come in and frame it and I did the rest I did the inside the wiring the plumbing and uh you know
[speaker002:] um-hum sure my goodness
[speaker001:] so we built the walls huh
[speaker002:] you are multitalented you are multitalented
[speaker001:] uh my dad had built a couple when we were growing up so kind of got used to it and we did a lot of research
[speaker002:] uh-huh sure sure well if you were to do it uh again today what would you have done differently name things say
[speaker001:] uh  we made the kitchen a working kitchen I think I would've made the kitchen uh a lot bigger because both of us like to cook
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and right now a working kitchen is very efficient but two people kind of get in each other's way yeah it's similar to a galley kitchen yeah and then we have uh a like a little dining area off that we have a formal dining room
[speaker002:] is that like a galley kitchen uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] um I've since added onto the house we've got like uh uh looks like an old rustic uh log cabin on the inside uh it's all natural wood the ceiling's pine the walls are pine you know it's uh one of those type kick around rooms
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] and we put a greenhouse on it it was uh designed to be heated by the sun
[speaker002:] yes how does that work in the winter
[speaker001:] um it works fine as long as you don't put any plants in it
[speaker002:] exactly it burns it up I'm a plant uh former plant person and uh business uh-huh so uh you know
[speaker001:] yes oh are you oh we raise orchids
[speaker002:] oh my
[speaker001:] which is a little bit tough to do up here in the north but it's a solar greenhouse we put up you know like the walls are six inches thick
[speaker002:] yeah yeah well do you not have shade cloths and so forth and uh-huh well
[speaker001:] no no we used uh fiberglass we're faced the the greenhouse faces solar south
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] and it's it's double glazed fiberglass with a one inch airspace in between it
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so it's kind of opaque we don't use shading on it um but we do have to uh have air a lot of air movement even in the wintertime it can get uh brutally hot in there so the way it was designed was to uh uh I put a four foot foundation under it and put in twenty two ton of rock with with uh hot air piped through it
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and all day long it just heats up and then at night it just gives it back into the house
[speaker002:] well great great
[speaker001:] so it's it's not bad it's it's uh I'd like a little bit warm land I'd like to go up further north and I'd like to instead of having a salt box I'd like to have it all on on one floor
[speaker002:] yes well come south and uh you will already you will be watching the azaleas bloom and go they are just about gone this time of the year
[speaker001:] that's right you guys must yeah because the actually the winter hasn't been really bad
[speaker002:] we're all no huh-uh everything's green all the leaves are out and all that so it's pret ty
[speaker001:] so you got your garden planted
[speaker002:] my spinach
[speaker001:] yeah sir it's it's probably gotten just a little bit too warm now we have trouble up here with uh uh
[speaker002:] really well for not summer crops summer crops it's uh it's really not time to plant okra not quite the ground isn't warm enough but uh some of those
[speaker001:] yeah no I uh I put down black plastic
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] to help heat it up you know put it on the radishes and spinach but spinach kind of bolts quick on us so we put it Swiss chard instead yeah
[speaker002:] yeah right get that out early um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] so anyhow that's what we've done for our house we've left it all natural so there's no upkeep you know it's white cedar shingle
[speaker002:] sure yeah
[speaker001:] and the trim is stained so I don't have to go out and scrape and paint because I figured when I got old and retire I don't want to be working I don't be a slave to the home
[speaker002:] no no you don't want to be on ladders do you you don't want to be on a ladder
[speaker001:] um right right because that peek is twenty eight feet high and you come off twenty eight feet and it hurts so
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum well it certainly has been enjoyable talking to you this morning and uh hope to hear from you again sometime if they do that
[speaker001:] yes you too okay yeah all right you take care okay bye-bye
[speaker002:] good-bye thank you