~ Retired and Starting My Future In The Foothills ~

[gryeyes]

Well, belay that last bit of info about the connection for the oven/range in the kitchen, it is INDEED propane, not electric. Makes me feel somewhat less stupid, now. The house inspection has been completed. My agent is amazed at the amount of information not known by the listing agent (another Realty). So I need to shop for a gas range with an LP adapter kit. No glass top for me, now.

Better, actually. I don't like cooking with electricity and it would be nice to still heat water and/or cook even during a power outage.

I will see the Whole House Inspection Report tomorrow.

And, yes, ChooksinChoppers, I AM having a blast!

 

[Carols Clucks]

The last few gas ranges I bought from Home Depot included the propane adapters....

Check with them on the one you are looking at there.

 

[gryeyes]

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I found a great gas range at Lowe's! Yup, the adapters come with it. Nice looking Frigidaire. REALLY nice. On sale until Monday, 10% off.

Home Depot had front-load washers and dryers that fit my space requirements, but they are EXPENSIVE, even with that store's 10% discount.

Lowe's has a front load washer and dryer set that will fit, but not in the store; special order which does not cost anything. Just a bit of a delay in delivery. Much less expensive, too - and also with a 10% discount.

I think, since Monday is a day off for me, I might consider actually paying for them all, even though escrow has not closed...... But maybe not.

 

[Carols Clucks]

Lowes is 45 minutes away from me and HD super close.

I buy a lot of appliances for a rental property.

HD has a LOT of sales and Memorial Day is just around the corner. Also, the sales people can some times you that 10% off other times as well..........just incase you want to wait til closer to the close of escrow.

 

[HHandbasket]

I have to concur on waiting for the the upcoming Memorial Day specials. You can eat at our house the first few days until you get a stove. You could end up saving a couple hundred bucks just by waiting a week.

You can do it... you can do it...

 

[gryeyes]

This is SUCH ..... an amusing...... idea for me, to be anxious and impatient in buying a stove. I haven't used the one in the house I'm renting except for the top range PERHAPS a few times, in the nearly four years I've lived here. (Made candied walnuts two Christmases ago.) The oven doesn't even work, so I use it for baking pan and skillet storage!!!

I have lived quite comfortably using a microwave oven, a crock-pot, a roaster, my Keurig coffee maker, and a hot-pot. For about 18 months, when state employees were on 3 mandatory furlough days a month, I lived on Top Ramen with hot-dogs, chopped onion and hard-boiled eggs - and this was before I got chickens. But yesterday I got ALL excited looking at ranges!

And to be able to have a washer and dryer that will accommodate a comforter..... wooo hoooo! (This rental has a small, stacked washer/dryer set.)

 

[Imp]

Hey gryeyes,

I'm having fun following this thread. Your enthusiasm is infectious.

Imp- makes me wanna go buy a new house.

Well if you'll move me.

 

[PepsNick]

I am so happy for you, Linda. Congrats!

I can't wait to move in!

 

[gryeyes]

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Me, too!

Uh, that's for ME to move in, not you. Sowwy.

I am so antsy about this I drove up to the foothills today JUST to look at the house and property again. My favorite feed store is on the way, and when I left and Bradshaw hit Highway 16, I just turned right instead of left. ~<*whistling merrily*>~

Found the next door neighbors outside working on their chicken pen. No coop, just a covered run. Six chicks and a duckling were inside it. The lady of the house asked if escrow had closed; I said, "No, on the 24th, but I just had to come up and look around some more." We talked about a few things, including ducks, since I told her I also had ducks, not just chickens. No, her duckling is too young to tell the gender, but I told her about the "girls quack, boys don't" bit and explained what I meant. That happens before the ducklings get their full feathers and long before a drake will grow his "drake feather."

Then I brought up a topic and question posed by the well pump company: "Is there a chance, if I decided to have the well dug deeper, that the drilling equipment can use your driveway for access to the current well, and we'd replace the fence section we need to remove to do so?"

She said she could see NO reason why that wouldn't be perfectly fine.

I admired her dogs and the chicks and duckling. (Just love animals - can't help it.) Her teenaged and pre-teen sons were much more conversational this time.

In wandering around, I found out where the septic tank is buried, because part of the inspection process involved digging up the ground on top of it. Wow, right there, huh? Okay.

I scoped out where I want to put the 300 gallon stock tank for the duck pool. It will fit PERFECTLY against the wall of one of the terraces, and I will surround the rest of it with those retaining wall concrete stacking blocks. The ducks will be able to get into it from one terrace level above it without needing a ramp. I have a Wildlife Rescue Ramp INSIDE the tank, too, so they can get out okay but they should be able to hoist themselves right up onto that higher terrace level.

Yup, the wooden bench will go THERE on the veranda just fine. I might even be able to screen that veranda without too much trouble, but I wonder if that would obscure the lovely view of my yard? Hmmmm. (It would keep chickens off the veranda...)

Picnic table will fit perfectly on the patio on one side of the house. Next to that patio, there are some GORGEOUS purple iris coming into bloom.

On my way out, I did a little side road wandering just to see "the neighborhood" and simply had to take a picture of this sign:

 

[Kansaseq]

Sounds like everything is falling into place very nicely. Buuuuuuut, I thought you weren't going to move for a couple of years??? Now it sounds like months ?