>>>>>>Ah, it took me half an hour to remember what I wanted to ask you, as the day is coming soon... cherry blossom, nice, attended a couple of times (japanese community in Virginia Beach is still strong) but now I realized that I don't know the main fact. Is it sweet or sour cherry? As they are separate species.
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>>>I was a "nonresident" for tax purposes resident of Hampton, VA for several years.
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>>Then we probably were sort of neighbors for a while.
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>Members of my family have been in that area for a long time - 400 years. Clement Gardner(Garner) (1619), James Gardner(Garner) (1619), and John Gardner(Garner) (1620) in Isle of Wight County and New Hampton, Virginia Colony, Richard Gardiner (people used Garner, Gardner, Garnier, and Gardiner interchangeably back then because many were illiterate or were not that concerned about spelling.) Richard Gardiner came over on the Mayflower in 1620 planning to join the rest of the family but the Mayflower never made it to Virginia. Some records say he died at sea, other records say he died in 1623 but he likely returned to England by 1624. I'm fairly sure they all came over as indentured servants which were not allowed to just leave.

And I came driving a U-haul truck with a Corolla on a trailer in 2003 and stayed in Virginia Beach until 2010. Daughters still own two houses there and I kept a ruin somewhere west of Danville, which I may once visit again and perhaps rebuild, depending on whether the INS ever changes its mind about how much humiliation we rich foreigners are willing to take :). (near zero in my case)