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LOOK AT HER IN HER NEST BOX SINGING HER EGG SONG #chicken #chickens #backyardchickens #toledo #ohio #419 #owe #oldwestend #homesteading (at Old West End, Toledo)

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Everything about this season brings flashbacks. I see Rob smelling the lilacs, and I feel his arm around me, saying slowly and deliberately that I am a very good mother. I hear him tell me that he enjoys watching me interact with Hope. He smiles when he says this. I know in my heart he doesn’t have much longer with us. I know this, but I suppress it so deep beneath my conscience that I push forward, breathing in all that needs to be done. I want desperately to curl up and weep. To close my door and hug my pillow and soak my sheets with my tears. But I can’t. I can’t feel deeply what is happening to us. I can only survive this...survive this.  

Dear Spring, I want to fall in love with you again. I want to smell you the way I once did. I want to anticipate your rains and your everything new. But, I know that I will never again be able to see you the same way, to experience you the way that I’ve always known. 

In you, there is still beauty. It’s only that I ache with it. It comes with a higher price. 

I miss you Rob. Our crab apple tree is weeping with me. It decided to hold back it’s colors this Spring. 

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2052 Robinwood Avenue, also known as the "Rock Castle", was built in 1894 by stone mason, Michael Henahan, as his personal residence. It was later purchased by John Breymann, of G. H. Breymann & Brothers. Breymann hired local architect, Arthur Burnside Sturges, who remodeled the home, giving it a castle-like appearance. #ToledoOhio #OldWestEnd #RichardsonianRomanesque #RomanesqueRevival #VictorianArchitecture #archi_ologie #oldhouselove #casasecasarios #houses_ofthe_world #beautifulhouseoldandnew #TheAmericanHome #houseportrait #BrickStory #OhioFindItHere #ToledoRevival #OWEGrammers #ToledoRepublic #ThisPlaceMatters (at Old West End) https://www.instagram.com/p/CI7SSCPjV8d/?igshid=syre6ttrqcrs

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This large turreted abode at 2233 Robinwood was built in 1892 for Frederick O. Paddock, a grain dealer. An excellent (and unusual) example of shingle style architecture, the Paddock home features ornate sandstone and brick in addition to traditional shingle. And take a look at that veranda! But what caught my attention about this home, besides its obvious beauty, are the solemn reminders of the real cost of a war that has been raging on for the better part of 2 decades. Quite sobering. #ToledoOhio #OldWestEnd #ShingleStyle #VictorianArchitecture #archi_ologie #oldhouselove #casasecasarios #houses_ofthe_world #beautifulhousesoldandnew #OhioFindItHere #ToledoRevival #OWEGrammers #ToledoRepublic #ThisPlaceMatters #GalaxyS8 #withGalaxy #ShotFromTheGalaxy (at Old West End, Toledo)

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Gotta love those classic wraparound porches. #ToledoOhio #OldWestEnd #QueenAnne #VictorianArchitecture #archi_ologie #oldhouselove #casasecasarios #houses_ofthe_world #beautifulhousesoldandnew #OhioFindItHere #ToledoRevival #OWEGrammers #ToledoRepublic #ThisPlaceMatters (at Old West End, Toledo)

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2267 Robinwood (1897) was designed by Toledo architects Mills, Rhines & Bellman for lawyer Edward Gardiner of Graves & Gardiner. The firm of Mills, Rhines & Bellman (later Mills, Rhines, Bellman & Nordhoff) designed a number of buildings and homes in Toledo and Ohio as well as across the country. Examples include the Willys-Overland Block in Springfield, Mass. and the Willys-Overland Building in St. Louis. #ToledoOhio #OldWestEnd #ShingleStyle #VictorianArchitecture #archi_ologie #oldhouselove #casasecasarios #houses_ofthe_world #beautifulhousesoldandnew #OhioFindItHere #ToledoRevival #OWEGrammers #ToledoRepublic #ThisPlaceMatters #GalaxyS8 #withGalaxy #ShotFromTheGalaxy (at Old West End, Toledo)

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2267 Robinwood (1897) was designed by Toledo architects Mills, Rhines & Bellman for lawyer Edward Gardiner of Graves & Gardiner. The firm of Mills, Rhines & Bellman (later Mills, Rhines, Bellman & Nordhoff) designed a number of buildings and homes in Toledo and Ohio as well as across the country. Examples include the Willys-Overland Block in Springfield, Mass and the Willys-Overland Building in St. Louis. #ToledoOhio #OldWestEnd #ShingleStyle #VictorianArchitecture #archi_ologie #oldhouselove #casasecasarios #houses_ofthe_world #beautifulhousesoldandnew #OhioFindItHere #ToledoRevival #OWEGrammers #ToledoRepublic #ThisPlaceMatters #GalaxyS8 #withGalaxy #ShotFromTheGalaxy (at Old West End, Toledo)

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2254 - 2256 Glenwood, built in 1892, is currently on the market, with an asking price of $147,777. A classic home in a classic neighborhood. Shouldn't have trouble finding a buyer. #ToledoOhio #OldWestEnd #QueenAnne #VictorianArchitecture #archi_ologie #oldhouselove #casasecasarios #houses_ofthe_world #beautifulhousesoldandnew #OhioFindItHere #ToledoRevival #OWEGrammers #ToledoRepublic #ThisPlaceMatters #GalaxyS8 #withGalaxy #ShotFromTheGalaxy (at Old West End, Toledo)