The Old Folks Home

[LindaB220]

I seem to recall it was 120 in the shade. There's no shade. We had a 63 Ford Galaxie convertible with AC. Even with the AC it was hot. My dad was worried we wouldn't make it through the valley so we sometimes shut the AC down and stopped to check the radiator. We never broke down but plenty of other cars didn't make it. There's a nice little oasis type area at the end of the valley but even there it was sooo hot.


We camped at Tahoe on the same trip. Very hot there too but at least there was water. I thought that it was strange they planted a bunch of little trees throughout the campgrounds and had an irrigation ditch winding through the grounds passing by each tree. They'd fill the ditch with water a couple times a day. A fake oasis in the desert.
I imagine by now, the trees are actually providing shade.
Not a problem
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The guy trying to sell the field next to me is advertising it as 4.2 acres. Zoning requires 1 acre lots minimum. Turns out, he's counting the ground all the way to the middle of the road, without that, it's 3.8 acres. Only 3 homesites as opposed to 4. Deceptive advertising for sure. How do they get away with that?
Are you in FL?


Sounds heavenly.
Peace and quiet, other than animal sounds are awesome.

That's how you buy land in La in a rural setting. Not sub division. From the middle of the road. It's the way that it is surveyed and the way that the court house has it. I don't know of any other kind. Out of the city limits.

 

[mrballance]

Bonus. So you know how beautiful they are.
Welcome to the OFH.

Yes, I visit this site but don't post much. Hard to keep up with you all. I think my favorite is the gasconade in the fall. But I do like the currant on week days

 

[LindaB220]

House Church women coming out of prison. The house was really pretty much crap.

They had 21 women living in a one bed one bath house. The kitchen layout was horrible floor space was about six feet by six feet and the only bathroom lie beyond the kitchen so you had to walk through the kitchen to go to the bathroom

The other spaces they were parking bunk beds were the Green house and the Art studio. There were four bunk bed sets or eight women living in the Art studio and they had partitioned off the green house room with curtains for three more sets of bunk beds. And the Laundry room had bunk beds lining the walls. The one bedroom that was part of the original house had a padlock on it.... That was the Womans Ministry leader's room, who was the wife of the Minister.

I couldnt do more than a very quick walk through because I felt I was invading what little privacy they had. The house and the grounds were IMMACULATE. their schedual was posted on the green house wall. And every minute of their lives were schedualed even down to smoke breaks and shower days. In five minute increments. They each only had five minutes for a shower....

The roof of the green house was covered in multiple layers of clear plastic... but I knew that wasnt keeping the water out. The wood was rotting. and falling in in a couple of places.

When I came out I had a little fit. I thought the house needed to be buldozed... But I loved everything else the grounds the Eighteen acres the walls outside with their moszics...

They wanted 99K for eighteen acres... I talked to my realtor and he said they had to sell it for under a hundred because of the fact it was a church and they had recieved it as a donation. This kept them from having to pay sales tax on it. He also told me it had fallen through escrow now three times. Because of the house.

I made an offer contingent on my house selling. There were some other issues that went on that caused escrow to go more then 45 days... They were willing to wait because when I got my money they would be getting cash... I got a good price on my home in town.

So While I didnt get the brand new modular home I wanted I was in LOVE with the land.... and the house itself... truly has grown on me. Even though I cant get fire insurance on it. The well is iffy The plumbing is finally under control... The wiring was done by an amateur. Telephone lines dont work Cell phones dont do well. The only TV is Satellite. The only radio comes from either Las Vegas or Mexico.

But when I am there my life is zen.... The air is crisp and clean and the wind is always offering to brush away the clutter. You can hear a conversation more than 20 acres away. and you can decide to answer the door way before uninvited get there. One direction you can see deep into Baja California, the other direction you can watch whispy clouds form over the rocks... Sort of like a smoke signal from aeons past.

If you sit and listen you can hear grass hoppers or cicadas (some years). There are little pools of water hidden in depressions that remain for months after a rain.... So there are dragon flies and Fierce humming birds defending their feeder or flowers. Geckos come out at night so do bull frogs during mating season.... they burrow deep to survive the dry time.

One of the women who lived there while i was purchasing the property told me... this is blessed land you will be happy here. She was right.

sigh I just need to get back.

deb

I feel like Paul Harvey. Nice to hear "The rest of the story". I've been hearing about your house and land for months and wondered why you bought so far out. Now I know.

 

[tntchix]

Deb, you have a way of describing that house I felt like I was standing next to you. What an amazing place it must be. Too many in my opinion want the best house in the best neighborhood and don't really care about the property itself. I really don't like my house even though we've fixed it up twice, but I LOVE the spot. We are out in the sticks but we live on the main drag to town so we are not so isolated. I just wish we had more land but we are working on that.

I hope you can get back there really soon and get to "zen-ing" (my own word)

 

[perchie.girl]

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I bought it because I fell in love with the land.... A place to live on it was just a bonus. I plan to rehab the house just enough to make the house function again but not enough to draw a red flag from the county. It needs the Electric worked through... Possibly a larger breaker box. The last step in the plumbing will be to plumb to a water storage tank.... So that I can rest the well more often.

The horse needs a dedicated line dug in for her water tub. I am going to put in a shortstuff waterer down there too... for the rabbits and other wild critters that need a drink. I would prefer they not drink out of Katees tub. I would also like to put solar lighting up for her corral so I can see her at night.

Hard to find a black horse in the middle of the night especially if shes tucked in her sleepy time spot....

Oh and eventually I want to fence and cross fence so she can have a change of scenery occasionally. If I do that I can get a donkey or two to keep her company and stomp the predators.

sigh... I miss it. with warts and all.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb, you have a way of describing that house I felt like I was standing next to you. What an amazing place it must be. Too many in my opinion want the best house in the best neighborhood and don't really care about the property itself. I really don't like my house even though we've fixed it up twice, but I LOVE the spot. We are out in the sticks but we live on the main drag to town so we are not so isolated. I just wish we had more land but we are working on that.

I hope you can get back there really soon and get to "zen-ing" (my own word)

LoL... I wont be able to go till grandma doesnt need me any more. I have a spot up there that is a natural ampetheater... Surrounded by rocks. with only one access point. it would be an excellent spot to put a deck and some lounge chairs or even an outdoor futon... And Sit and meditate or just look up at the milkey way. Nite time there is magical...

Zen is about being here and now or in the present... I really need more of that right now. But as a writer and sometimes artist its a place where there are no limits... One time I decorated a walkign stick with dots. patterns of acryilic dots in various colors. Didnt have a brush to suit me... so I took one of my squishy Albuterol Ampules and filled it with paint... I spent days on it... Dot dot dotting.

Sculpture with found objects is my next endeavor one day. I have a couple of things I want to do that may be marketable...

deb

 

[superchemicalgirl]

so I took one of my squishy Albuterol Ampules and filled it with paint... I spent days on it... Dot dot dotting.

Now this is something I can really get behind.

 

[Sylviaanne]

Not ugly. Some of us are getting a bit rustic though. Recently I posted a picture without a hat and my cousin who I haven't seen in years said I see you have that Cotton hair line. Her daddy was bald as long as I remember and so was our grandfather.

Well, I don't know. That woman looking back at me isn't the happy, bubbly girl from my 20's. I don't even have a happy face, I look like a sour puss all the time. I try looking in the mirror and smiling to soften my look but it doesn't look right. I know that when I do smile at people, it feels like I am smiling bigger than I really am, according to the mirror. LOL

 

[tntchix]

LoL... I wont be able to go till grandma doesnt need me any more. I have a spot up there that is a natural ampetheater... Surrounded by rocks. with only one access point. it would be an excellent spot to put a deck and some lounge chairs or even an outdoor futon... And Sit and meditate or just look up at the milkey way. Nite time there is magical...

Zen is about being here and now or in the present... I really need more of that right now. But as a writer and sometimes artist its a place where there are no limits... One time I decorated a walkign stick with dots. patterns of acryilic dots in various colors. Didnt have a brush to suit me... so I took one of my squishy Albuterol Ampules and filled it with paint... I spent days on it... Dot dot dotting.

Sculpture with found objects is my next endeavor one day. I have a couple of things I want to do that may be marketable...

deb

I love magical places like that.

I would love to see your work.

 

[ronott1]

Well, I don't know. That woman looking back at me isn't the happy, bubbly girl from my 20's. I don't even have a happy face, I look like a sour puss all the time. I try looking in the mirror and smiling to soften my look but it doesn't look right. I know that when I do smile at people, it feels like I am smiling bigger than I really am, according to the mirror. LOL

I can relate!

I love magical places like that.

I would love to see your work.

Pictures would be great!