Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

My son and DIL bought their house in Front Royal in 2005 for $357k. They did a lot of remodeling including basement offices, bathroom, TV room, etc... and updated a lot of other areas including new kitchen. With DC sprawl pushing more people out there the demand is high. They just had it appraised at $990k. I don’t think they are interested in moving.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My son and DIL bought their house in Front Royal in 2005 for $357k. They did a lot of remodeling including basement offices, bathroom, TV room, etc... and updated a lot of other areas including new kitchen. With DC sprawl pushing more people out there the demand is high. They just had it appraised at $990k. I don’t think they are interested in moving.

That is insane for front royal. Must have some acres.

 

[toppop52]

That is insane for front royal. Must have some acres.

It’s insane for anywhere, they have about 3/4 acre. Overlooking a lake. They were told the only thing holding the value down was a couple of houses in the neighborhood. Others across from them have more than doubled in 15 years.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all 78F for the start, partly cloudy, light breeze. Windy day, variable cloudiness, and high temp of 94F, feels like of 101F. No rain in sight. Started with cleaning lady prep, then Men's meeting, then bike ride on Peugeot bike. Biked worked well except for rear derailleur has no jam nut and back off, and GPS did like the stem mount. Moved GPS to handlebar mount and readjusted rear derailleur with barrel screwed in, will check work on Friday's ride. nap after lunch and rehydrating and conserving energy finished today's jobs
Covid update: Cooke 100 confirmed cases, 18 active cases, Montague 32 confirmed cases, 3 active cases, Grayson 771 confirmed cases, 49 active cases
Yesterday's posting after I posted
David Yes the dogs do a good job fertilizing the lawn, good to hear progress on the tractorshed reorg.
Roy sorry to hear about your billing issues
Buppies if Thomas getting the bear were that easy
Eric mask needs to be lower
Billy Thank for the info on assisted care taxes, hopefully wife won't need it
Ron, I got a laugh from the rumor also. Good to hear barn is painted, nice pic, flat is fixed rode my newest to me bike today
Mike hope your well holds up, sorry about insurance/billing issues.
RNG there are compound you can add that are like Fix-a-Flat, I just don't add them, I can remember only 2 flats after changing tire to a flat resistance model. That is a lot of rust, hope you can get enough out. Good news on solar front, and really good news you can contemplate a bike ride.
Rich some of the decisions manufacturing make are baffling like indoor only battery box. Hope trip goes well
Drew nice sunflowers thanks for sharing
PJ good thing you know a dog trainer
Ken glad pool back in business, don't like expensive repairs.
Ted hope town run successful.
Drew hope you all were able to enjoy the pool some inspite of the issues.
Don glad you are getting cooler weather and some seat time.
David, hard to use golf cart w/o/ starter
Randy that sounded like a fun job!
David(moss) good to hear from you, are you sure you are not past the nube stage?
RS congrats on the palace success. Glad you got the reprieve on flower run
K5lwq Sorry to hear about your run in with crazed fan.
Today's postings
Roy yes nice weather although the odd shower would not hurt either
Drew good to hear as sited living not needed in PA, hope they can find you something, 23 meds is a lot of stuff, hope most of that is cancer related!
Ron nice dear pic
Mike good luck with moving the light fixture, stay cool.
Billy thanks for Coco update, Scooter is such a treat hound he will down the pills to get the extra treat. Not a good way to treat a freinf after a good hot tip
Jay sorry to hear how bad Peg got, good reminder to me to keep an eye on the wife. Glad things are moving in a positive direction. Will keep praying
RS have fun with your jungle, and racoon.
Ted hope errand day goes well
running out of energy finish catch maybe tomorrow
prayers for all, especially Drew, Jay/Peg/ and Kyle's daughter and Country
stay safe and healthy you all

 

[buckeyefarmer]

It’s insane for anywhere, they have about 3/4 acre. Overlooking a lake. They were told the only thing holding the value down was a couple of houses in the neighborhood. Others across from them have more than doubled in 15 years.

I’m as close if not closer to NoVa (Reston, Herndon) as they are, and you can get houses here for half.

I saw prices in strasburg Va at $250k this weekend.

 

[rswyan]

79F and partly cloudy @ 22:30, watching a nice large area of rain running from up in MI down through IN into IL and KY ... hope it makes it here.

High today reached 89F at CAK ... was out in it pretty much all day.

House sparrow I left in trap last night was dead by the time The Woman headed into work so I retrieved it first thing (she had stopped and removed the towel I used to cover the trap on her way out ... :thumbsup and brought it down to the house to stick it in the freezer. But before I did, I let The Squeak get a good sniff of it ... she was extremely interested and started meowing and stood up on her hind legs. She wanted it pretty bad ... :laughing:

I noticed no more house sparrows in the area where the trap is set up ... but there is a mob of them about 300' further east ... so I'll have to relocate it tomorrow.

After that I gathered up the coon in the trap and took it up to burn pile to dispatch it. Suffice it to say that did not go at all well ... and I won't be doing it again. Back to giving swimming lessons as an extermination method.

After I got the trap and the loader bucket cleaned out, I took the brush cutter down to this area:

Got it cut down to about 40' or more in (up to the drainage ditch), in the first two pictures, and only about 1/3 of the last picture. Basically everywhere I had placed composted soil previously.

Had originally planned to just put it in grass, at this point though I think I'll do a combo of some grass and a planting bed with hostas, pachysandra, and some rhododendrons. The area is currently very dry ... but there's an outlet for the downspout drain on the southwest corner of the house within 30' that I can redirect to provide moisture for the plantings and the trees.

Ended up hauling out one bucket load of sticks and downed branches for the burn pile and two bucket loads of weed cuttings and leaves for the compost pile.

After that I hauled the garbage can full of pachysandra cuttings around back and filled it with water to hopefully keep them viable.

Then took a break and went inside, fed the cats, snuck out to hang suet and refilled bird feeders, placed an order with Menards, and just cooled off for a little bit.

When I came back out I headed over to west side of the house and grabbed another bucket load of sticks and downed branches and took them up to the burn pile. Still have a couple bucket loads of weed trimmings and leaves there I have to take up to the compost pile. Compost is looking good ...

Around 18:00 I took the FEL off and hooked up the Trac Vac and picked up grass until 21:00 ... five loads worth.

Was a long day ... and I'm tired ...

Hope everyone had a good day ... :thumbsup:

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-07-16, 0256

65 right now...high today in the upper 70's. Supposed to get rain after midnight tonight...so, might start mowing this afternoon

 

[Buppies]

70 inside 70 outside rain shower a while ago not much .11 inches but better than nothing high of 90 today stuck in a rut. Street paving today

Young man who works with us finished chemo now going on radiation hope it helps

Saw four bears yesterday looking for food

Prayers for all

Prayers for Kyles daughter Jay and his wife Drew

 

[wngsprd]

71 going to 90. I see 99 on the forecast for Monday.

Buppies, congrats on the rain, and you win for most bears! I'll gladly take third place behind you and Thomas. We haven't even had a coon or possum in the last week come up at night.

Ken, thanks for the tip on peanut butter...but seems more sticks to my fingers more than the pill. ...and I can't lick it off because of the pill residue. But it's good to have another food to rotate.

Jay, sorry to read about your situation. Prayers for your family.

Don, trail looking good...but too hot to work that hard that long.

Very dry here...noticed some leaves turned red and yellow and fallen to the ground on my hike...but see this every year.

 

[riptides]

72 outside this AM, heading to lower 90's. New record for consecutive days in the 90's. Twenty straight, I think. Next ten days look like they will add to that record. Weekend looks - dangerous. Heat index around 110.

Very dry.

Tried to do some comet watching, eyes cannot find it. Maybe tonight again.

Light pollution on the horizon looking north/east to DC. Just WOW. What a huge difference in other directions.

Hope all have a great day. Be safe.