RE: Member Photos
July 9, 2014 at 2:44 pm
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2014 at 2:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Fishing in Alaska? Ha, I wouldn't be caught dead in that shithole, even if Lilly begged me. My wife is actually a few years older than me - which was even harder to believe before she had 4 kids. I distinctly remember carding her when we met. My mother was, indeed, an english teacher. Have at her bro, but if I were you, I'd double wrap it.
Not too much of a tale to tell. I bought a new house. The wife and I discovered that there were alot of quality pieces of land just wasting away on the lists. Banks weren't financing so people weren't buying. If, however, you had cash in your hand...you pretty much had the banks and the owners by the balls. They had toxic assets they wanted to get rid of, but no suckers to dump them on. We bought a 3,200sq ft house on 2 acres with a creek for $20k. I had to get a wifi tower built on my roof (we're down in a little valley) and point it in the direction of the nearest corn silo before we got interwebs. Would have done it sooner, but it was a cold cold winter out here and I had other things to do.....like establishing all the fruit trees and bushes I'm used to....tilling up a little garden, etc. Now we're looking for some class IV(or worse) ag land so that I can get back to work. That, or some other sucker who wants to break into ag with his own money and needs the experienced hand of good ole yours truly to realize his dreams. I'm just about done with row crops, and heat, and the scorching sun - so I'd prefer to go a different route this time. But, we'll see how it all pans out, eh?
Chopped alot of damned wood this last year too....so much wood........I don't even want to look at the pile. My shoulders hurt just thinking about it.
Not too much of a tale to tell. I bought a new house. The wife and I discovered that there were alot of quality pieces of land just wasting away on the lists. Banks weren't financing so people weren't buying. If, however, you had cash in your hand...you pretty much had the banks and the owners by the balls. They had toxic assets they wanted to get rid of, but no suckers to dump them on. We bought a 3,200sq ft house on 2 acres with a creek for $20k. I had to get a wifi tower built on my roof (we're down in a little valley) and point it in the direction of the nearest corn silo before we got interwebs. Would have done it sooner, but it was a cold cold winter out here and I had other things to do.....like establishing all the fruit trees and bushes I'm used to....tilling up a little garden, etc. Now we're looking for some class IV(or worse) ag land so that I can get back to work. That, or some other sucker who wants to break into ag with his own money and needs the experienced hand of good ole yours truly to realize his dreams. I'm just about done with row crops, and heat, and the scorching sun - so I'd prefer to go a different route this time. But, we'll see how it all pans out, eh?
Chopped alot of damned wood this last year too....so much wood........I don't even want to look at the pile. My shoulders hurt just thinking about it.
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