Apes, us Mumpers help each other out; therefore (in one of the more selfless acts a Mumper can do) I will volunteer to go to the bar & consume liquids on your behalf. Cap’n, you in, too? 
Mooommm, that road’s a bucket list ride for me on my bike. I should probably do it as it’s the least expensive item on my list due to it’s relative closeness & inexpensive travel.
Ifn you see the snake again, ask it if the frog’s legs tasted like chicken. :dubious:
{{{Nurse}}} & whoever else needs 'em.
Ah, I’m not great on American snakes. It’s not much of a useful skill here.
I’ve only ever seen one wild British snake, but at least I could ID that one (an adder, if you want to know).
Just had pottery class- there’s only got one left now.
I’ve just been offered an interview for a job with hours that would clash with the class, so if I get that, I won’t even be able to go back next term 
Not that I’d complain about finally getting a job again… even if it is only about 10 hours a week.
I’d like to know if chicken legs taste like frog.
I think it’s time to log off and knit the night away.
MWAH!!
ok opinions needed
I got turned down again because of my low income in 2011.
They said I could get a job that gives a w2, work there for a month and have 30 days income to show or I can wait until after I file my 2013 taxes.
I sent them some more info because I was getting Social Security and that doesn’t go on the tax returns but I thought I told them about it and I hadn’t.
So I waiting for an answer as to whether or not that will make a difference because the SS ends in July. They can’t count it now but we’ll see if they can count it towards the average.
The first mortgage company told me to call back August 1st. I don’t know what is the difference between now and then?
So
today a house was just reduced $10,000 and I can pay cash, they are asking 14,000.
There is a problem with description in the title and I am waiting to see what the problem is. Of course if it’s a major problem then the deal is off, if it’s a minor problem then I have to decide.
The house is in town.
On the plus side there is lots of stuff within walking distance, the people are friendly.
On the down side it is a end of unit town house and right on the street. No front yard at all.
If I open the window the sidewalk is right there.
There is off street parking, a parking pad big enough for two cars in the back yard.
What is left of the yard is tiny and fenced in with a privacy fence, needs a new gate.
I talked to several of the people around and they say it is quiet for the most part.
One man is getting ready to sell his house, asking $137,000. His house is a bigger 3 bedroom with 1 and a half baths, the one I am looking at is 2 bedroom, 1 bath, and a finished attic that can be another bedroom.
The town is racially diverse, people seem nice and polite. It kind of reminded me of Mayberry with a few guys sitting outside the barber shop and people sitting out on their stoops. There’s a church on one corner (not that I ever go) and a playground on the other corner.
Even though it’s mostly townhouses there is a mix of different styles on the street. Some of them are huge with ivy climbing up the walls. No trash in the street, everything is pretty clean.
The house is sound and solid, with new windows. The bottom is brick, the top floor is aluminum siding, the roof is tin and show no signs of leaking.
On the downside, it’s right next to the alley and everybody going up and down blow their horns I guess to let other people know they are coming through. You can’t hear it inside the house though except for when I opened a window on that side.
The hot water heater is new and the furnace is fairly new.
No central AC but it’s forced hot air so the duct work is already there.
The down side.
You can tell somebody bought the house to rehab it and there is still a lot of cosmetic work left to do. The floors are awful, everything need painted, the carpet is gross. It needs a fridge, and a new back door and a new gate for the privacy fence.
And plumbing. All of the copper pipes are gone, zip, zilch, nada.
There are probably hard wood floors under everything but they are probably not in good shape.
The rooms are small.
There is a circuit box with breakers, not fuses, and there are safety outlets in the kitchen and bathroom.
I would still want the wiring checked.
The basement is small, only under the kitchen part, it’s unfinished but dry.
The living room has a drop ceiling which has missing tiles under the tub and I would want that checked out. I don’t want to climb into the tub and find myself sitting in the living room. It looks like new wood has been put in but I’d still want it checked out.
The bathroom needs everything new. The kitchen needs new cabinets, however I could make do with what is there for now.
The realtor feels like
$14000 is a good deal.
We estimate $10000 to make it livable, $30000 to fix it up.
Probably a month before I could move in and I don’t know how long it will take to close on it.
After paying cash and closing I won’t have much cash left to rehab.
Of course I have to find out what the legal issue is with the title.
I was thinking about offering $10,000.
The realtor thinks that is too low since the price just dropped today. He says if we wait a week they might go lower, of course with this price it may sell tomorrow.
Of course mortgage company 3 may call me back and say we are good to go.
Mortgage company 1 may have the same problem as 2 and 3 with the low income year.
I think the sensible thing to do would be to wait until after I file next year but that won’t work with the HFH here. Then I could save even more money.
I could move out and rent for a year.
There is a certain logic to that.
I shot a bullfrog at my Grandfather’s farm when I was a pup, and was made to eat it.
It tastes like rubber bands.
Some people are off work (on vacation) today at my workplace. That’s going to be the way it is all summer - not everyone will be there at the same time.
I think in September, when everyone’s back, we should throw a big party. Or maybe I can make some cookies or something. There’s one coworker who really likes my cookies. 
Yay.
I should share my cookie recipe sometime. But I want to take pictures to accompany the recipe, and that might be hard to do. But I’ll see.
In any case, I’m a little too busy now to make cookies.
I’m curious what you used to shoot the bullfrog. It seems like a small thing to shoot with conventional bullets.
A Benjamin.22 air rifle, the AR 15 of twelve year olds.
Apes & Spidey I am in, you know you must help a fellow Mumper out
Midget when one is a hunting Bullfrogs one must use the most powerful ammo one can find and handle. The Bullfrog must be obliterated, vaporized of just vanished so one does not fall into the trap the befell Flytrap in his youth. I like shotguns for the task, 12ga magnums packed with birdshot. :rolleyes:
In other news it is hawt hawt hawt, unofficially we broke 100f/37c today, did I mention it is humid?
Jim
Howdy from da cave. Actually I have been here for a while. There was a biiiiiiiig tboomer around two o’ clock at irk. It lasted about half an hour and after it was over I decided to just leave for the day as all irk was doin’ was makin’ my already ill ass even more ill. So, I came home, made beastloaf, steamed cabbage, steamed squish, scalloped N.O.T. and cornbread muffins for dindin. Good comfort food type eatin’. ‘Twas good if’n I do say so myself. While the beastloaf was cookin’ I even ironed some shirts. Go Me!
sari if you like the place and feel like you can get it liveable and fixed up like you want to in a reasonable amount of time I say go for it.
flytrap did you have to swallow froggie whole aka the snake or were you allowed to eat it in pieces?
midget nonsense! Get in there and bake us some cookies. 
MOOOOOOM the beerverage I had at Ye Olde Bear Cave Tavern was quite tasty.
My heart goes out to you and yours.
I’m better today. Time may not heal the lose of a loved one, but it does make the space between better.
Hmm, well, I have had success in sending those kinds of cookies by mail before… 
Midget’s makin’ us all cookies! YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!
Okay, y’all, just PM me your home addresses so I can [del]stalk you[/del] send you some cookies.
Come to think of it, 3 Dopers here have had my cookies. Though that was when I met up with them in Montreal.
what kind of cookies are they?
Almond-flavoured. They have no actual nuts in them, though, just almond extract. Their real name is “Candy Cane Cookies”, because you’re supposed to make them at Christmas and colour/shape them to look like candy canes. But I make them in other shapes all year round, because they’re too good to eat just once a year.
Sounds good Spidey. Don’t forget to pour a little out for my homies
How do you say, “Don’t look a gist horse in the mouth” in Yiddish?
I have Aphyosemion gardneri fry!
Stifle it, Swampy.
It’s hot here and going to be hotter (the next five days, at least, will be over 100), my feet and legs ache, and I have cramps.
