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Looks like DW and I are going for a little lake camp in the area. Ideal for us when I retire would be a place down in FL, but that's not practical right now, too much travel hassle, plus the pets. It's a 40YO trailer, being updated by the present owner a bit, has a full A-frame roof, added-on living/sun room looking out on the lake. Septic, lake water, electric, propane heat, theoretically can be used as a year-round. 0.7 acres, north end of a lake that looks feasible for diving (not too deep, but should be okay at a couple hundred yards offshore), reasonably secluded but only 15 minutes from our home.
Nothing's ever real until it's signed for, but the owner thought our offer was fair, reasonable price point on their side. Waterfront property gets pretty crazy ask prices, but this person was willing to accept an offer of assessed value; he'll make a decent profit, and a quick sale on a brand-new listing is much less hassle for his young family than mucking around, a place they don't have time to use.
Our main home is a log cabin, treed, seasonal stream, beautiful, I and DW have done nice updates, but a lake house would be cool
Nothing's ever real until it's signed for, but the owner thought our offer was fair, reasonable price point on their side. Waterfront property gets pretty crazy ask prices, but this person was willing to accept an offer of assessed value; he'll make a decent profit, and a quick sale on a brand-new listing is much less hassle for his young family than mucking around, a place they don't have time to use.
Our main home is a log cabin, treed, seasonal stream, beautiful, I and DW have done nice updates, but a lake house would be cool
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Quick - restore my faith in humanity. The stupid hurts.
Sent from my TARDIS
Sent from my TARDIS
Have you seen the number of trampolines in the South? I'm waiting for every Red Neck family this side of the Mason-Dixon line to realize they've been training at the Olympics for seventeen generations. Back when they used to use pork belly as the trampoline. ;-)
Pfft. Handball is for people who can't handle being hit in the face by a proper soccer ball at 75mph+..
BALL TO THA FACE! GOALLLLLLLL!!! -Magnus
I "may" have broken a girl's leg my freshman year playing soccer. she failed to yield. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Turns out I see her hobbling on crutches and a cast in the hallways of my school later that week. (club soccer)
Played her the next year on the morning of a big home coming dance weekend. As I approached to challenge her for the ball (I was mid-field sweeper) she literally stepped aside and yet me have the ball. Her coach was having a stroke on the sidelines. she screamed back at him "I'm not missing the dance tonight!" lol
My friend's son played football all through high school. Was recruited for college ball but choose a school for their pre-dentisty program. Joined an intermural soccer team and broke his hand or arm (not sure which) calls his mom from the ER (4 hours away) and says - they're cRaZy! And they don't wear any protective gear!!
My daughter, at eight years old, is finally realizing that the dinosaurs did not avoid extinction until after cable was invented.
Of course she is also traumatized by the thought that zombies might not be really real...
To restore your faith Magnus - The boy I was talking about is now a Sr in college and will graduate in Dec. (not predentistry, changed to physical therapy,, thus the extra semester) anyhooo..... I haven't seen him since 2001. We were friends and later neighbors with his parents. We are godparents to his youngest brother. But 5 hours etc and busy lives have made visits difficult, though I did get to see his mom and youngest brother last year when his middle brother (college football player -of the pigskin variety- played against a local college.
The story: DS#1 moved off to college on Wednesday. Same school young man goes to. Young man messaged me for DS cell number and said he'd texted him to give him his number in case he had an emergency or needed anything. The young man went a step further, he called DS and took him out to dinner and gave him the low down on stuff in the area etc.
He didn't have to do that. It made #1's evening. He's very VERY shy and doesn't make friends easily. And none of his "real" friends are at this school.
So there is hope for the human race, when someone does something...just because they can. He even bought #1's dinner - refused to take his money.
PS: I of course let his mom & dad know what an awesome young man they've raised. ;-)
The story: DS#1 moved off to college on Wednesday. Same school young man goes to. Young man messaged me for DS cell number and said he'd texted him to give him his number in case he had an emergency or needed anything. The young man went a step further, he called DS and took him out to dinner and gave him the low down on stuff in the area etc.
He didn't have to do that. It made #1's evening. He's very VERY shy and doesn't make friends easily. And none of his "real" friends are at this school.
So there is hope for the human race, when someone does something...just because they can. He even bought #1's dinner - refused to take his money.
PS: I of course let his mom & dad know what an awesome young man they've raised. ;-)
Uhhh... I tried to come up with something, but I'm pretty much a misanthrope when it comes to humanity.
I have great faith in (some) people as individuals, but humanity as a whole is pretty much an evolutionary dead-end as far as intelligent life goes...
Sorry
If he thinks soccer players are crazy then it's a good thing he didn't go for rugby...
DON'T get me started on rugby. DH is still in the doghouse for a Rugby incident that happened in 1991. Seriously.
I think they have to have lobotomies to play that one. Stupid game. (shakes head) Might as well hand them whips and mace.
I think they have to have lobotomies to play that one. Stupid game. (shakes head) Might as well hand them whips and mace.
Ummm...it's basically football/soccer without the kicking, kind of like American Football without all the sissy padding and getting to rest every four seconds...
EDIT: I'm just responding to the "stupid game" thing. I'm pretty much a non-sports kind of guy, so it's an "outside observation" and not really dependent on rules or actual similarities or differences in the finer points of any of the games...
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While this is funny - in reality put a NFL player on the Rugby field and the Rugby players look like Hobbits in comparison. If they played Football without pads many a human would be broken down into fundamental elements.
Hockey I'm still undecided on - those people at bat ..... crazy and fairly swollen.
I'm right there with you...
Dark, tell the good kid to get out of humanity while he still can. Hope is lost. The coffee will run dry. *grips rifle tighter*
-Magnus
Not the Coffee, I have to have my coffee !!!!
without it there is no reason to get out of bed
Had me giggling this morning http://www.break.com/index/rare-bird-humps-photographers-head.html
Oh heck naaaaa! That's just violent revenge - nice! -Magnus
OMgosh. I laughed so hard I cried.
My friend has birds. Parrots, starlings (yes, starling - and they talk) and an African Gray. I sent her the link. Her African Gray only likes men, especially men with goatees for some reason.
My friend has birds. Parrots, starlings (yes, starling - and they talk) and an African Gray. I sent her the link. Her African Gray only likes men, especially men with goatees for some reason.
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