Maybe not. IMHO the one bathroom is the dealbreaker. Check it out and report back. Built in 1910. I love that. My house is 1926.
Hate the stripey floor! And the kitchen has had a number done on it, but if you like big and modern, it’s beautiful. My kitchen is small and cramped. Like me. 
Thank you. 
We had our storm night before last. (Or was it two nights ago?) Lost power, but only for about a minute – I hadn’t even finished cussing about its going off when it came back on. 
Used to play SimCity a lot, but never heard of this one. Do the add-ons include tornadoes, floods, &c?
I’m making a career of it. 
Up, showered but not dressed, and as yet unfed and uncaffeinated. However, sheets are in the washer, so I’ve accomplished something today. Fastbreaking, I think, will be accomplished with a bowl of cinnamon swirl instant oatmeal, but I may have to swipe a bottle of Dew from my wife for caffeine.
74 and overcast, predicted high of 75, 90% chance of heavy rain. Rain is supposed to slack off overnight, with tomorrow NOS and 76 – in fact, the predicted high for the rest of the week is only 77. Hurray!!
@SCAdian - if you had an even passing affinity for SimCity you owe it to yourself to play Cities Skyline. It’s everything SimCity should have been and there is a huge creator/mod community sanctioned by the developers. There are several DLCs you can pay for that add even more content and I believe that disasters are a part of one of those DLCs. That is to say, I know that there are disasters you can unleash on your cities, I just can’t remember if it’s in a DLC or the base game.
I love old houses, mine was built in 1915.
It’s Victorian, hard wood floors, beautiful woodwork, pocket doors. Definitely not open-concept, which everybody, but me, seems to love. I like having an entrance hall.
I think both bathrooms are hideous
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I also hate hate HATE the knotty pine cabinets in the kitchen. Ugh, that is the same stuff that was in my parent’s house that they bought new in the early 60s. However, cabinets can be painted, or do as my mother did and get Fancy Fronts put on.
However, the house had an offer in May that fell through, and another offer in August that fell through, and the price was dropped. I think something is showing up in the inspections that is serious enough to make people change their mind. If the cosmetics of the place bothered them that much they wouldn’t have put in an offer in the first place.
I don’t know what it is about that house that makes me want it so much. There are plenty of other nice houses in this area, but none of them ‘speak’ to me.
It’s all just dreaming on my part anyway. There are things that have to be fixed here before I could put my house on the market. I need to do that before I can even think about putting in an offer on another house.
For those of you who like old houses, I really enjoy these videos of an old farmhouse renovation.
Except I hate the baby poop yellow color in the kitchen, and there is no way in hell I’d ever go back to having one of those old cast iron sink/drainboards again.
I’m debating rescheduling Echo’s spaying. The Pooch Plunges are on for this year, one is on the 8th and the other on the 10th. I think that may be too close to her surgery for her to go. We have to wear masks, not sure how that irks in a pool. I won’t go in above my thighs, so not a problem for me I guess, but some people go right on in and swim with their dogs. Got to be hard to breathe through a wet mask. I guess I’ll ask the vet, I hate to miss the event.
So… a modern one? ~grins in British~
Had another check on the bees today; they’re now winning against the wasps, after I reduced the size of their entrance, but I’m worried about the landowner’s hives- there’s one where it looks like the wasps have won. Unless there’s horrible weather, it does look like I’ll be getting some honey this year, if not as much as it previously appeared I would (they scoffed a lot over the rainy spell we just had).
Called in at the fruit 'n veg place on the way back. I don’t understand how that place can be profitable. I bought: 6kg potatoes, about 1lb of mixed heritage tomatoes, two capsicum peppers (one pointy long one, one stripy one), two dinky winter squish, a small bag of mushrooms, a couple of carrots, a punnet of strawberries, 500g of brown rice, a cucumber, a maybe overripe melon and a definitely overripe pineapple (both heavily discounted), and it all came to £5.60. I guess a lot of it is in season, but still…
My primary doc put me on Cipro and Flagyl, which seems to be the default first-line treatment. I just wasn’t prepared for the pills to be so aggressively and bitter. Not bitter like an aspirin, but this stuff is ANGRY bitter. I was at least expecting the um, digestive effects, which have taken hold today. 
Howdy. Happy to report that hubs is a tiny bit better today. He actually got up and made a pot of coffee and was getting a bowl of cereal when I realized he was up but he still has to use that walker. The shots he got yesterday must have kicked in. He is probably gonna need surgery.
Daughter has gone to the store and drug store. I needed allergy pills and she was just gonna get a few things from the grocery but that turned into a huge list as usual. I am cooking tonight and hubs wants lots of veggies so veggies he shall get. She brought some fresh peaches from GA and is gonna make a cobbler. We are trying to fatten up hubs.
It’s hot as blazes here. We had an appliance guy come and fix the washer enough to last until the new arrives on Moanday. It was the water level switch that the knob broke off and it must have been in the middle cause nothing would irk. That washer is old and has done a million loads of laundry. A new one will be nice.
Swampy we used to make Brunswick stew and everything was ground up. We have a giant wash pot to cook it in and as you know it must be stirred lest it stick to the cast iron so hubs invented an electric stirrer which was a great conversation piece. He just attached the wooden paddle to an electric motor and chain to drive it and clamped it onto the pot. It works great but we may never make stew again. We only ever make it when there lots of people to eat cause the wash pot is probably 20 gallons. It does freeze well. I wish I had some of yours and no beans in ours ether.
Speaking of cabinets, I need to clean mine out and I need a step stool to reach the top ones. Everything in this house is high up as hubs is 6’6” when not stooped over with his current ailment.
After while though I need to get back on training since I have a short deadline to complete it. I guess I will work for free this weekend but I can’t complain.
We got a quick deluge, then a peek of sun, and now I’m wondering when the next downpour will come. If weather radar is to be believed, in an hour or so it should be completely gone from our area. We shall see.
Last load in the dryer. Roxy is sleeping, FCD took a break to get a sammich, check on Daughter’s progress, and pick up a new ethernet switch at BestBuy - the one in his office appears to have died.
I need to build a meatloaf with the 2# of ground beef in the fridge. Guess that’s next on my list. Except Roxy just got up…
Afternoon all. Weather is clean and occasional sightings of Blue Skies and the sun have been reported. The only bad thing about it is that I am going to have to mow the yard while I have the chance, there is an 80% chance of rain Sunday through Tuesday. So after spending a couple hours helping pass out uniforms for soccer, I filled both my gas tank and my new gas can and will probably go out in an hour or so and start mowage. When I finish is yet to be determined…
Butters, sounds like having Daughter is good for both Husband-unit and you. How long is she staying for?
Nut, good news on the bee front, I presume you’ve told the landowner about the wasp incursion–if he decides to do nothing…
Sari, nice looking house, but I’m not a big fan of big houses like that. My 1997 home is 1 floor, 1600 sq. ft., and fits my needs to a T. Ah well, different strokes.
Lunch has been assimilated, I’ll do a little more reading and then face the great green mowage.
It’s very impractical for me to like big old houses. My house is 1500 sq feet and it really is a bit too big. However, had my son not taken the living room as his bedroom, I wouldn’t have two spare bedrooms upstairs, so then it wouldn’t be too big.
So the living room is his bedroom, and the dining room is the living room, and the kitchen is big enough for a small table. Although I noticed more than a few people use the dining room as a living room and the living room (smaller) as their dining room. Just means you have to carry everything from the kitchen through the living room.
I think I would like a rancher if the bedrooms were at opposite ends of the house.
Debating going to the dog park. It stopped raining hours ago and it’s only 82 degrees outside. The dogs didn’t get much exercise this morning as there was nobody else to play with. Ripple is clinging to me and bugging me non stop. I just don’t feel like going. I took a shower and put on my night clothes, I don’t feel like getting dressed and going out. Poor puppies.
I feel guilty if I don’t take them for a romp, but I may just deal with the guilt.
Clouding up, so the decision to go to the park may be a non-issue.
I surprised myself by sleeping late. I had no idea I was so tired. Then, too, I was awake for awhile in the middle of the night. Some guy was screaming (not an exaggeration) in apparent outrage–lots of F-bombs interspersed with a loud thumping sound. The thumps sounded close by, the yelling farther away, like maybe he was in a car or something. I thought of calling 911, but I had no idea if he was in the complex or outside it. With my vision, I couldn’t see anything. Anyway, went on for awhile. No news on anything untoward, so I assume it was nothing.
It’s a lovely, pearly day of cloudy skies and cool temps. I’m going to go for a long walk and enjoy it. Then we get sunny and highs in the low 80s for the foreseeable future. I can’t wait for fall.
Gotti, seems like something that helps the digestive track shouldn’t be nauseatingly bitter. Yuck. Can you hide it in a piece of cheese? Oh, wait, that’s for dogs. 
Will you be on this stuff for long, or is it just to ease things temporarily?
MetalMouse, I love big, old houses, and used to yearn to live in one when my kids were growing up. I’m still fascinated by houses with third floors and even dream about them. However, I’m with you on the space issue: a big place with just me rattling around in it would only make me lonesome–a reminder of all I used to have. My apartment is the right size. I do miss living in a house, especially one I owned. An apartment feels like I went backward.
Our last house in FL was like that, as is my in-laws’ place. It is nice, as long as you’re not having to get up in the middle of the night to tend to crying babby. 
Laundry is done and the sun has popped out a few more times. Daughter doesn’t expect to be home for supper, so I need to figure out what we’ll eat. Poor Roxy is soooooo bored - maybe I’ll take her out to splash in the puddle.
Busy day eBay-ing. In addition to the ejection seat, the camera support, and a vintage flying balsa model, I’ve now also listed another vintage balsa flying model, an Ultra 16 format motion picture camera, and a reconditioned 1962-1967 MGB dashboard. I listed my underwater housing and camera as an auction before, and the auction ended; so today I relisted it as ‘Buy it now/Best offer’. I sweetened the deal by offering a second H16 camera if someone uses the Buy It Now option. Now I need to take some pics of another camera and get THAT one listed.
Mrs. L.A has spent the day caulking the bedroom windows and painting.
Today I learned that the dishwasher works better if you remember to turn the water on.
That does seem like a good idea. 
Reminds me of one I pulled last year, on my way home from the hospital on the day DH broke his leg. I’d stopped to fuel the car. This was somewhere around 18 hours after I’d gotten up, and I’d had a VERY chaotic day. I had the key turned to accessory so I could do things like enter the odometer reading in the mileage notebook DH insists on maintaining. Finished feeding the car, put it in Drive, released the parking brake, could not figure out why the car was not moving. In the middle of the “oh crap, the car’s dead” panic, it finally managed to percolate through what brain I had left by that point that actually starting the engine would help tremendously.
Yesterday was our day to make the meal swap dinner for our neighbors. I made butter chicken, garlic rice and garlic naan. Got a visit from the Vampire Defense League after dark.
Finally tackled the broken drawer slide and got it installed today. The really hard part of that job is getting up after lying on the floor to work. Need to install a chain hoist on a ceiling track and rig up a harness, I guess.
I read that last word as “panting,” which I can well believe!
That camera I listed today, a Beaulieu R16 with the Ultra 16 modification. I accepted an offer.
So tomorrow I’ll need to find a box and get it into the mail.
And I got an offer on the MGB dashboard. I’ll probably take it.
(And I realised tomorrow is Sunday so I’ll look for a box tomorrow and mail the camera Monday.)
We took a ride down to see how our daughter was doing. She’d painted most of the living room, and while we were there, she did the contrasting wall. She was just finishing the kitchen when we arrived. FCD finished the last little bit of the hallway - she had a friend come help, but she only had one stepstool, so he did the last part up by the ceiling.
I mostly wrangled Roxy, but I did wash out one paint brush. And I changed a poopy diaper - I can’t wait till that kid decides she’s tired of wearing a sack of poop on her butt…
When we came home, I made FCD breakfast for supper. Then I made the last 4 boiled eggs into egg salad. Daughter got home just after us, so she and I had some egg salad, Roxy had PB&J with veggie straws, and I had half a dozen of my cherry tomato crop.
I need to make the bed. Then I think I’ll crawl into it. I’s tahred.