The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[getaclue]

Would selling the extra lot give you enough for the improvements you want to make? Would keeping the lot, selling the home, give you enough to build what you want?

 

[speckledhen]

I think out should make the improvements you need for your place so you can live in comfort til your last days.

There is something to be said for that. If living space could all be on the main floor, not having the 2nd bathroom in the basement (though it's rarely used unless we have overnight company or someone is desperate), and a lift installed for getting groceries and an ailing husband up onto the deck, it would do what we need.

Would selling the extra lot give you enough for the improvements you want to make? Would keeping the lot, selling the home, give you enough to build what you want?

The extra lot would not sell, most likely, at least not for a very long time. The power line easement road it's on is not maintained and the lot might only sell for $15-20, tops. I believe that once Mark begins building the little tiny cabin for his daughter on the bottom lot, which is accessed by that road, he'll grade it and improve it, but it's up to whoever lives on that road to keep it up, not a huge draw for someone.

We've thought about building on the lot, but it's fairly narrow. I don't think I'd be happy sandwiched between the bottom lot and the property we developed ourselves, seeing someone else living in "my" house every day. Oh, I've thought seriously about that, Cheryl, since we own that lot outright and it's already ready for building.

 

[1muttsfan]

I would also find that very difficult

 

[speckledhen]

I would also find that very difficult

Glad you understand. In the end, we may opt for just installing a lift, renovating and/or upgrading the two bathrooms and doing a few other small things like replacing the small, substandard basement windows and steel door, which is actually coming apart after 24 years of use.

After the fire, they did not replace anything in the bathroom except the flooring and cleaned and painted it, took out the vanity we made from an dresser and did a deep cleaning on that, reinstalled it. I still hesitate to add to our debt to the degree that a full master suite addition would do. Plus, I still have the triple dresser and chest of drawers in my quilt room, which was our master bedroom, because the small bedroom we now sleep in is too small for those pieces to fit with the bed and nightstands. I want to sell that dresser and buy a large upright chest of drawers that won't take up so much of the wall in that room. I really don't think my husband wants to move at all, though he tries to go along with what he thinks we need to do. Still have to figure what to do to keep it out of the hands of my sons, but surely, there is another way than to punish us in the process.

 

[speckledhen]

After this super-sized bed runner, I'm putting up my machine for awhile until cooler weather. It's just too hot to be quilting stuff like this. I'm almost done with the 4th of 5 of the 20" blocks, then have to quilt the borders and I'm ready to bind it. Whew! I need a quilt break.

 

[h2oratt]

Looks very beautiful. The older I get the more I don’t want to move. We put in improvements to make our life easier. My daughter and grandkids are here. I don’t want to leave them.

 

[1muttsfan]

Tom

Love the quilting on that piece! Wow very complex.

 

[speckledhen]

Tom

Love the quilting on that piece! Wow very complex.

Thank you! Tom's a good man. His reluctance to move has a lot to do with his childhood, moving every single year for many years because of his dad's work. I think he changed schools 13 times in 12 years. Even my military brat sons never had to do that.

 

[Leahs Mom]

I've been busy at work and haven't had time to take photos. But I had this little one out by herself today and thought I'd post a photo @oldhenlikesdogs This is one of the laced orp babies...5.5 weeks old (yellow band).

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I've been busy at work and haven't had time to take photos. But I had this little one out by herself today and thought I'd post a photo @oldhenlikesdogs This is one of the laced orp babies...5.5 weeks old (yellow band).

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She's gorgeous.