Scrappy, your friend's Maine house sounds a bit like the one some family friends have up on Washington Island in Door County (WI). They did eventually get it insulated, but it's still a bit drafty for permanent winter living. They're usually done with the annual visits by the end of October and don't come back until Easter. Since the wife was a SAH mom, they would take the kids and head up there as soon as school got out and stay for the summer, with the dad driving the six hours on Saturday morning a few times a month.
They were lucky and had bought the house for cheap back in the late '50s, before Door County took off as a tourist destination.
For people with/with access to summer/weekend homes, what happens to those homes during the times when you're not using them? Do they just sit empty? I'm always boggled by the idea of having multiple houses, because I have trouble imagining places sitting empty most of the time.
Mom and Stepdad would rent out the condo to college kids until they retired. Now they are selling the house in the city and planning on moving to the beach condo all year long. They were lucky in that when they married in their 40s they both already owned homes of their own.
I was totally picturing you being a pet first aid/cpr instructor. Just had that image in my head. It's more than cool that it's working out.
See? That's the power of the ~ma and good wishes in this place. And, moreso, in your heart. Thanks for your faith. It's going to be fun!
I can see Andi doing that as well. I should check with her when she gets back from her nap, see if we can find some way to do it if she is so inclined.
Note to self:
Chicken thighs at 6 o'clock.
Since I received so many compliments on them today, I thought I should post a picture of my new shoes
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I can see Andi doing that as well. I should check with her when she gets back from her nap, see if we can find some way to do it if she is so inclined.
Doooo eeeeet!
I'm a big fan of dreams coming true.
It turns out my friend T's bridal shower is the same weekend I am helping to throw a shower for my cousin. It probably wouldn't have been feasible for me to go to TX twice this year and she didn't come to mine, but somehow it just feels so wrong not to be there. We've been BFF's since we were in first grade.
Cute shoes, sj.
Why must you be slightly louder than all the other teevee? WHY????
I swear this is my biggest pet peeve with commercials. I wouldn't scramble so determinedly for my remote if they weren't suddenly so damned loud that my brain hurt.
I cannot understand how, in this day and age where so many people dvr or watch in alternate ways, why they have to make commercials as irritating as possible. Especially when there are event like the Superbowl that often show good and entertaining commercials.
Seriously, advertisers, you want us to watch your ads. It's the whole point. Stop peeing on us and failing to even pretend it's rain.
I find I like grey days, and appreciate the sunny ones more. That there's such an abundance of dynamic landscape here I don't miss the one I was steeped in for decades. This is home, and I love it.
I'm like this in the PNW as well. Well, once I got the allergies and asthma more under control.
Cute shoes, sj.
Thanks, Cass! And the best part is because they are Doc Marten's so I was able to walk the mall today without my back or my legs trying to kill me.
Beer commercials (or any other alcohol, generally) make me all stabbinaty.
Though I like the Most Interesting Man in the World radio commercials.
