I’ve been talking about my house for months. I thought it was about time I posted some pics of it.
It’s a small three-bedroom on 1/4 acre, a block from the beach.
Great little house, JLA.
Wonderful house Johnny. I was excited to see the snow too… and just a bit envious. 
I WANT YOUR HOUSE! I’M JEALOUS!
Snow…oh, yeah, that white stuff that falls from the sky. Not here it doesn’t. I love snow.
I was lucky to get it! In the two years since my friend bought it (as you know, I bought it from him) the price increased 60%! And you can’t touch another house here for that price, in the same condition, and so close to the beach. He made a nice profit, and I got a nice house (new roof, new wiring, new plumbing, repaired foundation) for less than the going rate.
I was luckier still, that they re-verified my employment before I was laid off. (Although I didn’t know it until later, after much Sturm und Drang.)
It looks like a great house. 60%? OUCH!
I’d love to have a little house near a beach. Of course, if I stay here and a really big storm comes through, I may end up in a house in the middle of a huge lake…
There’s an advantage to being up on a hill. Waves occasionally spash over the road you can see that runs along Drayton Harbour. I’ve heard those people get flooded from time to time.
Hill? What’s a hill? (I’m joking, I’m not an native down here. But it’s SO VERY FLAT it’s sort of scary!)
Nice house.
Does it have a guest room?
:::checking calendar:::
Nice house!
What color is it? (my monitor is going and the colors are skewed)
Sort of. I’m in the middle-sized bedroom and my rommate (who plans to move out in the Spring) has the small bedroom. The big bedroom (19’5"x11’4", minus the closet) with the fireplace is used for storage until the roomie moves out. After that it will become the library.
Sort of a dark red, with white trim.
whiterabbit: I know what you mean. I’ve been to New Orleans five times (twice to work on the roommate’s films when he was living there), and I’ve never gotten over how flat it is.
Very cute, Johnny! Did you ever get to see the pics of mine?
I was hoping to get the fencing finished this weekend so I can move out there and move my dogs and horse. With Christmas and truck being out of commission (I think I blew a head gasket), I haven’t accomplished anything. I need to move Irish soon.
Congratulations on the move!
StG
I was in Atlanta over Labor Day, right downtown, and while going through the hamster tunnel between buildings I was startled by the hilly roads below me. Hilly ROADS…wow. And I’d only been down here since the beginning of the year!
A library? sigh I’d also love to have my own library. Now I’m even more jealous. I hope you’re happy!
StGermain: I saw the exterior when you bought it. As I recall, you got a much better deal than I did! Looks like you have some high ceilings. Mine are low (about 7 feet). Out here, low ceilings are good for heating efficiency. (And it cost almost $140 to fill the propane tank! :eek: ) Yours looks like a real farmhouse inside. Congratulations!
(Is the horse housebroken?)
whiterabbit: I’m only about 27 books into the 100 Greatest Books series by Easton Press, and I only have 16 of the Masterpieces of Science Fiction (plus the five Lord of the Rings books). I had to suspend deliveries until after I’m employed. 
But I have a lot of other books on many subjects, hardcover or softbound. I can’t wait to get some shelves so I can get them out of storage!
You have no idea. When I moved down here, I was like “Wow, we’re on a hill! Look! More hills!”
Everybody was just rolling their eyes at me.
Johnny - I don’t know - good deal is a relative thing. Yep, it’s a true, very old-fashioned farmhouse. 12’ ceilings, wooden floors, etc. No beach. I have about 5-7 acres fenced on three sides, and my barn isn’t in bad shape, so those are all pluses. I also have brown recluse spiders, definitely NOT a plus. Bug bombs before anything else. I took my german shepherd out there to run the other day, and he had a great time. I hope you love your new home.
StG
Very cute, gotta love the hot tub as well! I’m so jealous!
-roadkiller, born and raised in Kansas, about as far from a beach as you can get.
Neither I nor my roommate use it. (He filled it up to see if it worked once, right after he bought the house. Heck, I owned the house for three months and I haven’t even gone into the trailer yet; let alone the hot tub!) Anyway, what’s the fun of a hot tub without an SO?
Rather than hijack the Snow tread (which had the house pics just to show the snow), I’ll address the gardening/improvements here.
When I lived in Lancaster, dad liked his flowers. He planted roses and posies (or pansies), and some tulips he got from the guy who bought one of my 1977 MGBs. He took the car back to The Netherlands, and sent dad some tulip bulbs. I have never been into flowers; preferring the strawberry patch (four feet by fifty feet, along the back wall) and the peach trees.
Someone in the other thread suggested the house would look nice with “English garden” landscaping. My ancestry is largely English, and I really like British cars and television. I guess that makes me an anglophile. But it seems as if a garden would take constant upkeep.
Here’s a list of what I would like to do with the house:
[ul][li] Get rid of the travel trailer and build a large garage;[/li][li] Turn the big bedroom into a library;[/li][li] Replace the board fence with a stone wall;[/li][li] Replace the wooden gate with a nice electric one;[/li][li] Get one of those old-fashioned cast-iron post boxes to replace the standard-issue “bread loaf” box;[/li][li] Install a cobblestone driveway;[/li][li] Cobblestone the space between the fence and the street;[/li][li] Replace the concrete paths with cobblestones, and add another cobblestone path from the not-yet-existant stone wall to the front door;[/li][li] Panel the two smaller bedrooms (preferably with yellow cedar to match the livingroom and dining room);[/li][li] Fix both chimneys;[/li][li] Replace the ugly fireplace in the big bedroom with flat cranite to match the living room fireplace;[/li][li] Make a big-ass deck that runs the length of the house and extends to the end of the concrete pad in back;[/li][li] Move the hot tub to ground level, with access from the deck;[/li][li] Add a rock retaining wall about 12 feet behind the shed, and fill it with earth; thus adding a lot of usable space to the back yard;[/li][li] Get an old-fashioned long-handled water pump for the well (you can see the concrete basin that was used for the well to the right of the shed);[/li][li] Install stone walls along the side property lines;[/li][li] Put up a bridge from the back retaining wall I mentioned earlier to the road opposite;[/li][li] Clean the brush and some trees from the creek area behind the shed and plant something (the blackberries grow everywhere here, and they easily get out of control – “Kudzu of the North”). [/ul][/li]Egads, I need to find a job! (Although I’d settle for winning the lottery. )