Our Green Acres

Way back in the sixties Eddie Albert and

Eva Gabor starred in a comedy TV show called ‘Green Acres.’

Why I remembered this today, I do not know.

The theme song came back to me today, it went like so: 

Eddie sang:

Green Acres is the place to be.

Farm living is the life for me.

Land spreading out so far and wide,

Keep Manhattan just give me that country side. 

Then Eva sang:

New York is where I’d rather stay.

I get allergic smelling hay.

I just adore a penthouse view.

Darling I love you but give me Park Avenue. 

In some ways this was also the story of Joyce and me.

We moved from a comfortable condo in the city to an old farm house on 10 acres of old and not so good farmland.

It was a total culture shock.

Getting things repaired or replaced correctly was near impossible.

No matter how long we live here (24 years now) we will never be accepted as locals.

For years when we tried to tell someone where we lived, we would get looks of total confusion until we said, “The old Wyrick house.”

Then the person would know where we lived.

The Wyricks were here 100 years ago and people knew where they lived.

The last of the Wyricks died in the early nineties as far as I know.