I am currently flumping with Matilda and a martini and GBBS after a day of cleaning, culling and organizing. I think I've vacuumed the living room four times? Maybe five?
David has cooked approximately a frillion meals since last night and hauled a bunch of stuff to Goodwill (with yet more to come), we've both gone running and done our daily exercises, and everyone here is completely knackered except Matilda, who spent the morning moping in bed because she didn't have any friends to hang out with and the afternoon hanging out with a friend.
This is the second or third Saturday like this in a row. I really need a weekend one of these days, but it'll be at least two or three more before I get one.
These are two properties near my new place that I think someone here should buy.:
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There is one for sale less than a block from me that needs a lot of updating/work, so I am not linking to it.
Holy shit, those houses! Those prices! Both have too much outside for me, but I feel like buying a house in Baltimore just on principle now.
That first house doesn't actually have that much lawn and if you put in a curb cut to ad a driveway for off street parking you would lose either most of the back or the side yard. Especially if you did two parking pads since it's a two unit house.
But... humidity!
Askye, a gift certificate might be an acceptable gratuity? I've never tipped a nurse, but that sounds above and beyond.
So glad your mom is progressing nicely!
That first house doesn't actually have that much lawn and if you put in a curb cut to ad a driveway for off street parking you would lose either most of the back or the side yard. Especially if you did two parking pads since it's a two unit house.
OK, then sold! Is adding a driveway something a person can just do? For some reason that shocks me.
You'd have to get a permit & approved (curbs belong to city) but given the rest of the neighborhood, I doubt there is any zoning against it. Could be wrong, though.
Typically you need a permit for the curb cutout, and permission from the zoning board to pave over lawn. (Our village has limits on what % of your yard you can pave over, mostly to prevent people from putting private parking lots where their yards used to be.)
In my particular case, we also had to deal with the fact that on a corner lot, both street-facing sides of the house are considered front yards (our zoning laws say you can't have a driveway in the front yard so we had to go before the board and point out that legally we have two front yards but the one with the driveway in it is obviously actually a side yard), AND the fact that about half a square foot of the new expanded driveway would be outside of our property lines. One side of our lot faces a state highway, and while both the village and state transportation agencies agreed that expanding our driveway in the way we wanted was totally fine and that giving us a lease was a meaningless formality, neither of them would admit to having the right to tell us in writing that it was okay.
Yay zoning.
I'm writing this fundraising letter for my church, and I think I have an OK draft, but I guess I shouldn't send it out to the committee just as the service is starting, huh? I'll wait until after lunch.
Billionaire decides he needs to have his own bespoke on-street parking, creates a garage door prop and a curb cut:
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