Sometimes it's hard to figure how to arrange everything into a smooth narative. Of course, with the blog format it is all backwards if one has not followed it post by post.
This page should probably have been grouped with the previous post.
The old back porch in the upper right, you can see how small it was, that is the railing in the lower left corner of the photo. Later it was removed and a nice deck replaced it. I liked to sit out there.
I don't know why she sent them off to San Francisco, perhaps they were having a spat.