Mama always said, “Have fun growing old! Life’s waaaaay to short, to miss the funstuff!!”
Thats my motto.
And we have a squirt gun. I wanted the super soaker, but my wife bought the 99 cent wal-mart special. So far we have rescued her from
Draps
walls
curtin rods
closing cabinets
closets
and once from inside my car. (I was on my way to the store when she darted out from uner the passenger seat. I nearly wrecked. She got in through the open windows in the garage. This only increased my wifes anxiety that the cat will go missing one day in the woods and the coyote’s will get her. I always say, naaa! Grissholm(our dog) will protect her!)
That’s funny, because for once I correctly guessed what an ambigiously titled thread was going to be about :o
If it’s really a cottage make absolutely certain it’s an all-seasons cottage before you buy it. Some people up here have an amusing sense of humor and actually build cottages that are not meant to be inhabited during the winter - they lack proper insulation for example. Why anyone would build a summer cottage in an area of the country that only has 4-6 weeks of summer is beyond me…
NE Texan From where in MA are you going to NH? There may well be a shortcut (at least timewise)… If you don’t want to say on the boards, you can e-mail me if you like, and I’ll ask around if I don’t personally know a way to shorten your drive - I know many people who do or have done the MA/NH bit.
elfkin - it’s a year-rounder. They lived in it full time. I’m thinking after last night’s dinner conversation that it would be a good investment. We are always looking for good buys and this is a very good buy…275K for five acres on the water with cottage…does it get any better.
Also I was thinking about NE Texan as well, there’s got to be a better way to drive. I always take 396, to 495 to get from ct to ma, then 95 up.
elfkin, I appreciate the offer, but I’ve looked at the maps, so I think it’s unlikely. Phlosphr doesn’t seem to be minding the hijack, so I’ll tell you here.
You see, I work in Andover MA, about 200 yards from I-93. And I live in Manchester, NH, about 30 feet from I-93. So it seems to me that most other routes are going to be out of the way. The next closest one, it seems, would be highway 28 - but it has lights, and a low speed limit, and everyone else knows it’s the alternate for I-93 as well, so I think that as long as the I-93 traffic is going more than 15 mph at any point, it’s faster to stay on the freeway.
The next obvious one is going over to US 3, but that’s 30 minutes out of my way, and has it’s own traffic problems, plus construction.
Actually, in spite of my complaining above, I-93 is usually (barring accidents or weather) flowing pretty well, and it’s a fast drive.
NE Texan, my best friend works in Andover, and she prefers 28 to 93, stop-lights or not; she claims it’s still marginally quicker to get back to NH that way.
However, from Andover you could theoretically take 495 (which rarely has traffic pile-ups - I used to drive from NH to MA, then vise versa on Fridays and Sundays a few years back, and rarely had problems, anyway) to Plastow NH, take 107 to Epping, and get on 101w to Manchester. I have no idea if it would save you any time, though At least it’d be more scenic…lol.
I’ve noticed this in the short time I’ve lived here, because sometimes after work I need to pick something up from the store on the way home, and I’ve occasionally tried to stop in Methuen or Salem. I do NOT want to get on 28 in MA and drive North from Methuen through Salem - that road seems to always be crowded.
Yeah Salem tends to get very snarled up after work lets out! Plaistow has it’s own set of issues too as when I try and go up there to grab something after 5 it always takes 3 times the time!
Good lord I need to get myself out and learn where stuff is… we’ve lived here a year and I still can’t get to salem on my own sigh
Race time at Louden (especially bike week) is quite the experience although I haven’t gone since I was a teenager. I hear they have done some amazing things to make camping there much nicer.
tanookie, I remember that Plaistow/Haverhill has a Pizzeria Uno (it’s on the state line, I can’t remember which side) that we ate at when we were staying in a hotel here looking for houses. (Now that we’ve bought one, there’s a different one a lot closer, and they’ve built another in Salem.) Anyway, I would think Salem wouldn’t be that hard to get to: west on 495, take the 213 cut-across, and either go north on 28 or on I-93. (I had noticed you were from nearby, but hadn’t realized you had only lived here a year. Where from before that, if you don’t mind my asking?)
Trying to hijack this back around to the topic:
Two of my son’s friends turned something his troop is doing down for the weekend, becuase they’ve gone up to Maine to camp for the weekend, and one of the program managers here is taking tomorrow off to leave early to be in Maine for the weekend. Honestly, if I didn’t know that Maine was a lot bigger than the other New England states, I’d wonder if it was getting crowded up there.
Phlosphr, if I understand correctly that you haven’t been to this piece of land, I would suggest arranging to go up for a weekend (if the current owners will let you) and spending a few days there - trying to go up just the way you would if you owned the place, spending the same amount of time, do some fishing, and so forth - and see how you like it. “Cabin”, if you don’t have more info than that, could mean anything from a small second house that’s perfectly nice, to a dilapidated 3 sided shack in the woods. I gather that your wife already knows that it’s on the nicer side, but still, you’ll want to see it.
Besides, you can see if it has enough space for a good-sized refrigerator box, and if you can get “Alice” on the TV up there.
It’s that west on 495 that gets me every time. I have zero sense of direction. I also know about 3 places to get on 495… so I get confused about what the signs are supposed to say. I can get half way there taking the back roads but since I still don’t always know my left from my right I get a bit confused at the end.
Before Haverhill we lived in Brockton, MA - only about 70 miles south but it seems like a world away sometimes when I’m having my ‘I hate it here and miss my life’ days. We moved up here a year ago march to be closer to my husband’s family. My ability to explore and learn were hindered by some RL stuff but I am learning very very slowly. We go to that Uno’s fairly frequently but I am still in search of some decent pizza.
NE Texan - We have everything we need to buy the house. Real-estate bill and all. It’s really not a summer cabin, it’s a year rounder, and it’s decently big. nice wrap around porch…it’s just deciding if we want it right now, do we need another property? we’ll decide over the weekend…I hope!
yeah, come on Tex! That Deah on your Cah’s nice, 10 pointah Ehh!
Look the only word you really need to know well is Wicked. EVERYTHING IS WICKED COOL. ok?
[sub] you should see the look on students faces when I use ‘wicked’ in my lectures. those who have never had me, routinely look around the room and wonder if I really said…wicked…[/sub]
At least it’d be more scenic…lol.
