reports of my demise are highly suspect
you can't keep a good fool down...
oh boy, would you all have liked to have seen me after I climbed back out of that lowland/swamp/dripping forested viney thicket. Bleeding in several places from
thorns, shoes soaked, Im soaked, but oh boy am I glad I went back there. Totally ruled out that house. Would have been Disneyworld for vacationing mosquitoes.
So...i have been mia because I have been a dull boy. I have been doing spreadsheets since 5am, making sure i could afford the new place, doing updated cash flow and net worth statements, and then saying, what the heck, good land is always a good investment. So I'm headed back down there later this week. And I will walk every square foot of the 22 acres, well, perhaps not, I really think some of the furthest rear portion of the woods, which buffers all the neighbors nicely, has a pond in it.
And I will find that area and make sure it is a pond and not a swamp. With alligators and snakes slithering everywhere. I intend to fence in the five or six acres in front, most if it already is, since I want a dog to be able to roam a large area, not get out, and not get eaten by alligators either. or other denizens of the Carolina swamp...
And no deer, raccoons or yeti in my orchard or gardens.
if I do this thing, I'm going to clear out some of those trees and get some air and sunshine back in there. Might dry things out. Well, at least a wide path back to the pond, which of course will not have alligators but only koi, just waiting for me... This is second growth forest and boy is it thick. But I have just the grapple for it.
sure would be nice to get some hardwood down on the ground for firewood. Three working fireplaces in this house, den, master bedroom and kitchen.
I hope they all work. 28 years old, well an inspection with a camera will tell.
If I put an offer in on this house, I would send out hvac, chimney and electrician techs to go over the systems very carefully during the due diligence period. I think I'll have the two separate conventional septic systems tested, though what is there to test? Pump it out, sure, but geez, well for awhile, there's only going to be me. How much could I overload two separate drainage systems? Don't answer that wiseguys.
The home inspector report is almost useless; I saw the last on this house, only done three months ago. Everything was corrected, but many questions remained...
ok, equally importantly, gave my Kubota a well deserved bath with a low pressure powerwasher, which nicely flung the cruddy grease zerk accumulations into the woods.
which then of course meant I had to regrease everything, pushed any water out and left another new layer of old/displaced grease pushed out. I'm not very **** when it comes to grease fittings. Felt like they would never end doing the FEL. And I just knew I'd run the grease cartridge out half way through, and therefore get grease on me everywhere, but it was like a movie cowboy's six shooter, it just never ran out of grease. Today we were dining on Tacky Red, a choice blend of very sticky goop.
Last time was a more mundane Moly silver.
off to wash the truck for the first time. Good day to get wet with a hose, cools one off nicely.
all of you Dads, congrats.
