Cloverdale Farmhouse

Pre-fire images of the farmhouse in Cloverdale, taken between 1980 and 1999, prior to my owning a digital camera. I was an exclusive digital shooter starting in 2000. My last pre-fire visit was Christmas, 2008.

The summer of 1980, before I owned my first camera. These first 4 shots were likely taken with Mom's Kodak Instamatic. In this image I can see a couple of rods sticking out of the back of the house beneath the hallway window. Maybe these held a flower box? As kids we'd bang on the wall below that window (we were inside), and watch a lot of hornets angrily buzz around outside. There was a little hole in the siding which gave them access to a poorly insulated space between the studs; they built a nest there. One night, Dad sprayed the hole to kill the guards, then sealed it with silicone. A year later a stack of paper nests and dead hornets were extracted from the wall.
Classic saltbox home. Vertical siding was used to mask the seams between the original siding and the slightly different siding on each addition. The front of the house, as well as the garage, was entirely vertical siding.
You can just make out the deck in the front of the house. It must have been in rough shape, it didn't last long. There's also a chicken on the picnic table.
Tiny kitchen, electric range, and ubiquitous compost buckets.
Our first winter. I remember that chair.