Kyle_in_Tex
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I love box turtles. Had 2 in my youth, fenced in backyard. They would come up on our porch and eat out of my hand. Hard on ripe tomatoes though...You can keep the red ear sliders and snappers.Not sure what I’ll get into today, maybe clean out part of garden. This old guy wasn’t liking us intruding.
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you're not crazy. Sounds like it makes a lot of sense to me, or should I say you have me convinced.More buckeye news.
Yesterday we looked at a 10.2 acre lot in WV, and put a verbal offer in on it. It appears they may accept our offer, which will be contingent on selling our VA lot. This lot does cost more being larger, so I might have to pony up some additional cash. WV lot has no restrictions and has a perc that was just done in February. Seller put in a driveway, and electric crosses the lot right next to where we would build. Downside is it is mostly sloping land and the end of a ridge, but there is a nice flat bench area to build on. It is also all woods, except for the little area the sellers cleared putting in the driveway. Also the start of the drive is a little steep, but manageable. It faces south and has a view, and if we remove a few more trees it will have a really nice view. WV has no restrictions, and we can put our camper on it and camp without anyone caring. It is also half the distance to our house than the VA lot. This lot will probably not be for a retirement house, but rather a cabin and camping investment. We would build in this area at the end where they brought in the drive. View from above the trees.View attachment 862782
View attachment 862781On the VA lot, the county will not let me do anything until I file for a house building permit. No barn, no electric hookup, no garage until the house permit is filed.
We have not yet moved forward with a formal offer. The realtor's husband is the owner. They bought this 25 acres last fall, subdivided into two 10 acre and a 5 acre lot, perc'd them, and put in the driveways. this is the corner lot. A paved road to the west, gravel road to the south. The 5 acre to the east and the other 10 acres behind and above me. view up the drive from the road.
Tell me if I'm crazy. About 40 minutes from Winchester VA
WV also allows cisterns as a water source.
8 miles to Tractor supply and FoodLion, which is closer than where I am now to either one.
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If you learn Fusion, you'll be ahead of me....sorry about your grandson missing out on the mowing.Good morning.
44° and the sun is shining. Supposed to rain late in the day with a high near 70.
Yesterday’s breakfast and conversation was good, wife came along as well. After breakfast I made some progress with Autocad Fusion, I figure if I put in some time everyday, I’ll eventually get there.
I did take the Makita pole saw and chainsaw down the lane and cleaned up the fallen limbs that were on the ground, and removed all the limbs from the tree top that was stuck in the ground like a lawn dart. But I left the that part for another day when I have some help.
Zoe and I loaded grain into the barn, she still thinks that the alpacas want to play with her.
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I got out the Lazer Z to trim around things and to test the waters to see how wet the ground was before getting out the big guns. Took the loader off the tractor and hooked up the Progressive and got most everything mowed. There were a few spots with standing water that I went around, and I kept it in 4WD to preemptively avoid wheel spin.
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It’s easy to see why the rear deck had holes rotted through it, all the decks are rear discharge, and the cover the rear one with clippings.
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You can’t even see my stainless repair plates under that mess. I’m religious about blowing it off clean after mower, I doubt that happened much in its former life on the sod farm. The great news is that it ran smooth, and the cut quality was good. I’ll say the repairs were a success.
Got all the machinery cleaned up and put away, when I came out of the shop, my DIL and grandson were here. He wanted to know why I mowed without him.
When they went to leave, they came back and said that a tree had fallen across the path home. They went around the other way, I put the loader back on the tractor, swapped the bucket for the grapple, and went down and lifted the tree off the fence, and cut it up with the Stihl chainsaw this time. I gathered up the big pieces and hauled them to the wood pile, then put the bucket back on the loader and parked the tractor. Went back with the carryall to load up the brush and dump it on the brush pile.
Finally it was time to put my feet up and have some dinner.
My MIL comes over every morning at 7:30 am to take my 14 yo son to school. I told her she didn't have to. She said "I know I don't have to,,,,I get to." We live about 3-4 minutes out in the country, once you go past the last light, so about 8 minute trip for her to come out here.
Almost nothing wipes out all the plans you had planned on.....more than a tree falling in your driveway.
I love driving through Hunt, along the Guadalupe river. When I got divorced back in '96-'97, I took my new Yamaha YZF R1000 motorcycle out to the hill country to ride. I cheated, and took it in the back of my truck, because I took a lot of stuff with me to be prepared for whatever... Anyway, having grown up in Victoria TX (on the Guadalupe), I wanted to find the head waters of it and it took me through Hunt. I had actually came from west to east on 1340 in the early morning and saw some of the most serene post card worthy views of the river as you go along and over it.Cloudy and 75F here today. Calm. We need a gentle breeze to keep the humidity bearable.
Light misty rain almost all day yesterday. Got back a little later than I expected from Hunt due to weather conditions. But nice drive out there and back. Nice to be away from the phone.
Some clearing out to do today. Then a meeting tonight that I hope will bring some things together.
That's about it for me today. Hope everyone has a great day with lots of sunshine and gentle breezes! Prayers for our Nation!
Man did I love that bike...wished I would have kept it, but someone offered me about $1500 more than I paid for it new. First time I'd ever bought a new bike, drove it almost 2000miles, and then sold it for more. They were rare, and fetching a premium. Like C8's right now.
I would pass too. Ouch. Wonder why so high?66°F and .01 inches rain
Got a few hours mowing yesterday. Hope to repeat today and get that area done. Yes, Drew, being nice to Sophie - always
Tractor tech never called Today?
Followup on my Fioptics endeavor. Got a voicemail saying if I still wanted it the phone company required payment in full to commence work - $59,538. If rates don’t change that would only be 100 years to break even vs Starlink. Pass
Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day
There was a man who went to his Tmobil store and asked them to make sure his phone would work for his trip to Switzerland. Turns out he did not have international roaming, and in less than a week, passing only 9 gigs of photo/text data, he got a bill when he got home for over $142,000. He called and they told him it was legit. After he hired a lawyer, they cut off the roaming portion since he had gone to the store to make sure he had roaming. Lesson for any world traveler. Make sure you have roaming for the countries you're going to.....or just stay stateside.
Helogabals, hope the twins had good birthday. New car working good still? I saw where Tesla laid off a bunch of workers. Even some here by Austin at the factory they make the trucks and cars in.