Yeah, it's a saucer magnolia. (I kind of don't like it. It is TOO BIG and makes the whole yard very shady. But we'll see.)
I swear, one of these times, you're gonna wake up in a coma.
Cordelia ,'Showtime'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
flea - Jan 26, 2015 7:50:54 am PST #17057 of 30000
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SailAweigh - Jan 26, 2015 7:50:59 am PST #17058 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
What a gorgeous house! I love the windows, and the solarium, and the living room, and everything. Bid~ma, flea.
flea - Jan 26, 2015 7:52:03 am PST #17059 of 30000
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(Also, the agent kept talking about the magnolia, and I internally got all southern snobby and was like, "this may be called a magnolia by you Ohioans, but I have lived in a house in Georgia with a magnolia, and this is not that!")
Tom Scola - Jan 26, 2015 7:52:16 am PST #17060 of 30000
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Yeah, it's a saucer magnolia. (I kind of don't like it. It is TOO BIG and makes the whole yard very shady. But we'll see.)
Definitely wait until Spring is over before making a decision.
amyth - Jan 26, 2015 7:54:12 am PST #17061 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Yay, flea!
flea - Jan 26, 2015 7:55:36 am PST #17062 of 30000
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Ooh, mr,. flea just messaged me that there's an architect/historic preservationist/carpenter who lives on the street who's a "bungalow fanatic" and did his officemate's kitchen. Eeeeeexcellent.
Connie Neil - Jan 26, 2015 7:57:08 am PST #17063 of 30000
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A big shady tree can make a huge difference in cooling bills over a summer. A new neighbor was convinced by an itinerant tree cutter that the two huge trees on the west side of their house were a threat, so she agreed to have 70% of her summer cooling system knocked down. She moved in in the spring. The formerly serene lawn was scorched by September.
JZ - Jan 26, 2015 8:02:33 am PST #17064 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Congratulations, flea! That house looks absolutely gorgeous.
You have a solarium! SO FREAKING COOL.
It looks a lot like my brother's bungalow in Portland, OR (including the dining room wallpaper, which I helped him strip down to the surprisingly lovely cream plaster walls on a visit up there long ago). He did a ton of the repair and restoration work himself and still has lots of bungalow-DIY-repair-tutorial websites bookmarked (learned how to disassemble, restring, and reassemble the window frames with the rope pulleys hidden inside, and they still work perfectly more than a decade after repair), so if you'd like any links he'd be happy to pass them along.
Atropa - Jan 26, 2015 8:07:51 am PST #17065 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Flea, what a great house!
I had a manager who, I'm pretty sure, set me up to fail a lot. She did this to a number of people (I think she wanted to be seen as "saving" the department by rescuing it from our "mistakes")
I didn't know you worked for my last boss! Or else people like that are legion in management positions, and we should perhaps create poppets of them to stab with pins.
According to my BigBoss, everyone I met at the Copenhagen office thinks I'm awesome and great at my job. Also, they really want me to move there.
Calli - Jan 26, 2015 8:09:38 am PST #17066 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
How lovely, flea! I especially like that front porch.