Good Morning!!!! 36F @ 4:30AM. Plenty of sunshine. High 61F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
All things considered, Drew, 10-11 MPG ain't bad. Looked at hotel room rates lately? Anywhere from $120/night up. $300 if you want a cabin. Compare that to $25-$50/night for a camp spot, and the motor home starts looking like a pretty good deal. Same with restaurant prices; they're out of this world. You've got a frig and stove, and I bet you know your way around the pots'n'pans by now. Good luck with the ants. Maybe try some of those Grants ant sticks?
Have you got your bucket stuck trying to grab too much dirt at one time yet, Frits? Easy to do, especially if you're headed down hill into the pile. Big surprise when you try to lift the bucket and the back wheels go up in the air instead!
Had 56 MPH winds here day before yesterday, Ted, and it sounded like the roof was coming off again. I can't imagine what 70 MPH would do. Good luck hunkering down.
Sorry to read that, Don, but at least Whipper's end came quickly.
Thanks for passing the progressive lens info along, Kyle. It's time for new lenses again here, too, and anything that saves moving my head from side to side when reading will be a help.
Crazy day yesterday. My buddy went with the realtor for the walk through at the Nipomo home, but for some reason the zoom call didn't happen. I got a bunch of after the fact photos that showed an old, but cozy, kind of a cottage house, with a big wide covered porch a lot of the way around the place, but badly dated appliances and bathroom and kitchen fixtures. Nice hardwood floors though, but some pretty ratty carpet covering some of it. Some issues with the sewer connection, but I'd rather deal with that than another septic system. I did the math, and the house is 81 years old. About the same age as the demented owner that was still living there, along with a sort of moocher tenant that had accumulated an immense pile of junk all over the acre and a half property. Most of it would be an easy cleanup with the grapple and one of those big haul away bins, but there are several dead cars and trucks, too. The seller's realtor said they already had two full price cash offers, but the asking price was a few hundred thousand lower than the place I was looking at last week. Made an offer a little higher than asking last night and might know today if they take it.
While pulling all that together, an acre and a half with a much nicer home for less money came on the market in Orcutt, so my friend swung by on the way home to look at it, too. Didn't see much due to the big high fence surrounding the place, but the listing shots showed another big lot with lots of junk on it, and a 70s era home that looked to be in pretty good shape but a little tired. It would be much less work than the Nipomo place. So I hope to get the realtor over there today to look at that one, too. Been turning my nose up for four months, and now two properties pop up right in the sweet spot at the same time. When it rains, it pours.
Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!
