Office Work.......

[Buff Hooligans]

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Tomorrow, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.

 

[maple]

Plus the old guy--the owner of the house---he's in a nursing home now but his family is well known around the area...they've been around these parts for years and years and years.....a relative lives next door and that person is married to my sisters best friend from high school but she's moving soon and she has a home day care too so we've been talking....

Me and mom snooped yesterday...they left the front door open.

Under the rug is hard wood floors. The rooms are tiny compared to what I'm used to here but financially it may make more sense living there than here and I'm sooo torn up about it. Zoe was bawling her eyes out yesterday but what am I supposed to do? The divorce is hurting us bad...it's my childhood home but he wants half and it appraised for more than it's worth and what I'll get if I sell...but the courts go by the appraisal so I may have to sell? I'd need my mom's help re-financing and she's worried since it costs a lot to heat the home and she's worried because I have my own well and septic and if they were to need replacement?


The taxes are aprox. $1700 less than what I pay. It butts up to farm land and my neighbors are not on top of me. The stone fire "pit" is really cool...it's actually not a pit but it stands upright like an outdoor chimney and it's about 8 feet tall and it has racks so I could cook on it. It has beautiful mature trees. I could have my chickens and ducks. The garage is stone and is soooo pretty. I'll have to go take pics when I go see it with the guy today after school and post for you all. It's in a smaller town than what I live in now but we share the same school district so my kids would stay in the same school. A mile or so up the road is the police head quarters and 1/4 of a mile further is the fire house/ambulance--in case I decided to have another heart attack...or if some crazy a** like my x decided to go play desert storm on me. The school there that Ava currently gets bussed to, houses the pre/kinders but will shut down this year because of budget cuts...but regardless...there's a nice playground in walking distance. About a mile and half away is a store and gas station.

It does smell like cat--not horribly so---but I figure, rip the carpets out and maybe find out about the wood floors underneath. No swingset but like I said, walking distance from school playground and plenty of huge trees to do a tire swing to two. The septic is city but private well. It has forced air but no, ac---I've never had ac...wonder what it would cost to get one put in?

 

[Orchid]

Maple, whatever you do, do NOT buy a house without getting an inspection done first by a qualified inspector. I don't know what kind of heat you have now (did you mention you have fuel oil?) but that house has fuel oil, and if you have fuel oil now then you know it's expensive. Find out how well that house is insulated and what kind of windows it has and how old they are; you could be stepping into a smaller house with close to the same heating bill, otherwise. Find out the age of the furnace and the brand, I can tell you if it's decent or not.

Depending on what you install (straight central air conditioner vs. central air source heat pump), the SEER rating and the difficulty of the installation, a/c could run you anywhere from $2000-$5000, with some variability for your location besides. I don't know if cost of living tends to run higher or lower where you are.

Nells! Thank you for posting that egg picture on FB! I showed it to DH and he loved the variety of colors. I see more chickens in my future.

 

[Orchid]

Buffy, my dad is on one of those ridiculous "no sugar no carbs" diets right now. He's done it before. Loses a bunch of weight, then gains back even more than he lost when he can't stand it anymore and starts eating carbs again. Drives me BONKERS.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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Yeah, anything that is extreme is bound to fail.... Just human nature. Can't fight that.

Orchy, I'm glad you're on - I just found this stamp: http://www.pennyblackinc.com/display_item.php?PID=5103&CAT=RSsentiments

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Also Orchs, I had a roll of something fall out of the freezer door yesterday. It was a frozen roll of No-Pepper/No-Kuku cookie dough!

 

[Orchid]

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Yeah, anything that is extreme is bound to fail.... Just human nature. Can't fight that.

Orchy, I'm glad you're on - I just found this stamp: http://www.pennyblackinc.com/display_item.php?PID=5103&CAT=RSsentiments

I try hard to live by that motto - sometimes I am made of FAIL, but I do try!

You have cookie dough - that is UNBAKED? Remedy this problem immediately, if not sooner!

 

[maple]

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I have boiler heat now...so gas is what I have piped in from street. I saw the big fuel tank...does that mean someone comes with a truck and fills it up? How's that work?

I noticed that most of the windows were new and to me the house was warmer than my house...my house is poorly insulated, has long runs for the boiler to try to heat, goes from big cast iron pipes to small copper--so that's sort of messes with how things are heated----copper takes shorter time to heat up but then the cast iron takes a long time to cool down so both have pros and cons but when they are tied together it's not the best scenario. Plus it had more wind block with trees and shrubs then my current home.


What's difference between 2 types of air you mentioned?

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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I was going to put it on the counter to thaw so I could bake some tonight, but DH caved to a co-worker who was pushing Girl Scout cookies the other day. DH can have only so many temptations in the house at once...

 

[wegotchickens]

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They're called 'hacks' auction? The name makes me nervous....

Buffy, what day will you be able to get to the post office to get them?

Only cuz the guy's name is Hackmeister. ha ha ha...I was just telling my mom yesterday after I talked to the guy and said, geez, what a terrible name...but I'm not impressed with my last name either. Actually I lurve me some hack's auctions...i lurve me some auctions no matter who they are but hack's is known in this area for havin some of the best.

OK. Cause a lot of people were scammed by a really nice guy named Madoff and he made off with a lot of $ in the long run....