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In 1970 I sold a fellow an old Victorian home in our village and over the next 3 years we became good neighbors. This guy was in the home renovation business and when he was up at our new mountain home we had just built in 1973 I mentioned that I would like to have a green house some day.
A few days later he came up with about 40 good wood framed windows from a house he was renovating and he gave them to me as a gift.
We became quite excited and since, at that time, we were living on the Canadian boarder with about 120 inches of snow fall each winter, we did not want the green house to be too far from our home. So after a couple of days consideration we decided on the “ideal place”.
So at the beginning of summer that year we erected a nice good sized wooden frame for the green house and with the exception of the foundation which was cement and cement block we used all the windows for this neat green house.
The frame was made from untreated 2 x 4’s and we put in a gravel floor, nice planting tables and had a grand old time with this.
We used this for about 6 years at which time we sold the property and moved back into the village.
Two years later we moved to Florida and about 1980 we get a call from the present owners of the mountain house asking where the septic tank was because they needed to pump it out.
It then dawned on both of us that the “ideal place” turned out to be right on top of the septic tank and we had never realized it when we built the green house.
Fortunately for us the present owners happened to be good friends of ours and were not too unhappy when we told them where the septic tank was.
Needless to say, the green house is no longer there. It had to be dismantled and since they were not gardeners they gave it away to another friend. The septic tank was dug up and pumped out and their problem was solved.
When we built a green house in Kentucky in 2001 we made sure it did not go anywhere near the septic tank.
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