~ Retired and Starting My Future In The Foothills ~

[crankster76]

nice place ,looks to needa lot of work on the outsde though

 

[HHandbasket]

Linda's excess roosters are gonna be really good with dumplings.

Farmer Lew is on his way over with his hatchet, Lin. LOL... j/k, he has to work today & tomorrow. They get a 2-day reprieve.

 

[Casey3043]

Linda, I absolutely love the new propane stove you are going to get! It does have a vent pipe (chimney) doesn't it? They don't show one in the picture. Will it heat your entire house? Anyway, it's gorgeous!

My son was reading this thread over Christmas while he was here visiting (I told him how much I enjoyed reading all about your adventures and your new animals) and he suddenly said, "What? 864 square feet?" I came and looked and sure enough, that's what you said.

His apartment in Washington DC is 960 square feet. I tried to picture two dogs, a cat, a rabbit, all the chicken paraphernalia, etc. in his apartment. Couldn't do it! He lives there with 2 cats and they have the attitude that "Su Casa es Mi Casa". Of course he has a lot of stuff, too!

Anyway, I love your house and location. Too bad you couldn't have been farther from neighbors, but they seem to come with the territory no matter where you are. My neighbors have chickens too, in fact 5 game hens belonging to my neighbor are spending most of their time here. They've learned when "treat time" is (4 pm) for my chickens and come running to get some scratch.

Hope you can part with some roosters that you are not too fond of. Keep us posted on your building and remodeling projects!

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

Wow, Linda, that door looks GREAT! What a lovely guestroom that will be!
I'm sorry about your roosters - but to your point, at least they talked to you about it and didn't lodge a complaint. I'm wishing Farmer Lew lived closer by - my Marans cockerel, close to 15 lbs., just turned completely aggressive towards me (the girls are just coming into maturity). He's come at me three time in the past week, once drawing blood, once aiming for my face. I bet he'd be great with dumplings, too. Problem is, I can't eat something I've named...so until I can offload him, I'm wearing gloves and carrying a tennis racquet!
You have a tough decision ahead of you. I wish you weren't having these issues with your neighbors...

 

[debilorrah]

Does Linda have a new boyfriend?

 

[dsqard]

She is being a CHICKEN about this. (pun intended)

Does Linda have a new boyfriend?

 

[HHandbasket]

Heheheh, no she does not have a new boyfriend.

Y'all do realize he could come here and read all the stuff y'all are writing about him and put her in a precarious position, ya know. She really needs this contractor. Let's not scare him off.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

That door looks fabulous!

 

[EweSheep]

Hard to find a good contractor nowadays and someone who is trustworthy as well!

 

[gryeyes]

Yup. 864 square feet. The heater handles 900 square feet. It can be vented from the back or the top; I chose the latter, as there is an existing chimney which will be replaced. The hole is already through the roof so why seal it and cut a new one through the wall?

864 square feet is another reason why there are still packed boxes in the middle of the living room, filling both closets, stacked around the perimeter of the guest room. PLUS boxed stuff under tarps still outside. I am making decisions about what to store NEATLY in the shed and what to unpack and use in the house. Two households of stuff, mine and my sister's. The house I previously rented was about 1100 square feet.

We've decided the deck will be built from Douglas Fir, and finished exactly the same as the pergola. Half of the deck will be covered; those posts will look just like the pergola's corner posts. The railing around the deck will be constructed to resemble the front deck railing.

While John was finishing the exterior trim and caulking absolutely everywhere there could possibly be "an intrusion of water," the retiree next door started some work with some sort of un-muffled combustion engine. Someone else was there with him, because both men had to shout to each other to be heard. After an hour of this, John said, very casually, "You ought to call them and tell them they're making too much noise." When I started giggling, he added, "You can't hear your roosters."

I want to tell you trim work is an exacting science. You don't cut three pieces of wood and slap them up on the wall around the doorway, then squoosh caulking material up into cracks all willy-nilly. There are all sorts of little gaps and indents and slopes and stuff which require the trim to be sculpted to fit them absolutely perfectly. Plus one needs to check the double French doors on the other side of the house to match the style of the top piece there, for continuity.

I think the silkie eggs may take a day longer to hatch simply because the house has been quite cold, due to the new door being open all day. The guest room is also the Incubation Room and "my office." It was COLD today in capital C O L D. Hard freeze warning overnight, too. The water in this bird bath had a quarter of an inch of ice in it all day.


For those who are wondering about such things, John knows all his lady customers fall in love with him. It don't mean nuthin' - not really. He just does perfect work, the way he would want it done if it was for himself. He came highly recommended by my real estate agent AND the broker. HHandbasket has run into another of his customers who also raves about his work ethic, quality of work, and billing accuracy. As a local businessman, he must keep his customers happy.

It is simply synchronicity which makes him a resident of the area, close to my age, not married, intelligent, literate, clever, a lover of nature, interested in others' opinions and chock full of personality.

How could I not like him?? There would be something WRONG with me if I didn't like him!

I like him quite a lot. I hope to be a good customer for a long, long time. He makes me laugh.