{FULL} Life Stories

“Aging forces us to make changes,” admits Evelyn Srigley.

“I was getting to the point where I didn’t want to climb ladders to clean the gutters anymore,” says her husband Burns. Snow shoveling had become a challenging task, too.

“Plus,” Evelyn remembers, “We were starting to feel more and more isolated where we lived.”

Most of the houses around them were rentals. Vacationers came and went with the seasons, and these visitors had no time or interest in getting to know the “year-round” folks.

And, although the Srigleys loved their home and its natural, rural setting, they frequently needed to go into town for shopping and appointments, and that meant a 30-mile roundtrip each time. “It became pretty tiresome,” they both agree.