King Edward

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Our first home. We bought it 1975 and five days later left New Zealand for 7 months in Minnesota. It was rented out and didn't suffer too much from it. Everything was overgrown, with the lawn reaching half a meter. Spent 5 years fixing it up. We moved back to Minnesota in 1980 and it rented out to 3 sets of tennants. The first couple included a former student and they have remained lifelong firends. The middle ones damaging doors, floors and windows. The third were a Dutch family who re-wallpapered and replaced light fittings. It was in sad shape and no longer big enough for us. So we sold it "as is" to a builder who didn't even inspect the inside. He just wanted the land to put up a couple more houses.
AT TIME OF PURCHASE 1975
	Fish	Apples
AT TIME WE MOVE IN 1976
Before	After (8 Jan 1976)	After (July 1976)
1976-1980
	1976	Painted kids room purple (Feb '79)
Raspberries 1979	Passionfruit 1979	Silk Tree 1979
Grapefruit 1979	1979	Mar 1980
	1979	Mar 1980
June 1980	Golden Wattle 79	June 1980
Oct 1980	Mar 1980	Oct 1980
AT TIME WE RETURN 1985
Veggie Garden	Doug and the currant bush	Pine in front
Silk tree seeds	Hedge	Gail, Te and Ne
	Magnolia Stellata	July 1985
Thrush in Apple Tree 85
1994