Bathroom addition photos

Still a few small things to do - touch up some paint, add the doors to the

laundry area, trim in the breezeway. But it's all coming together.

I have seen bigger bathrooms on airplanes! I can vacuum the whole

room standing outside the door! I can sit on the toilet and clean the

entire room, including the walls! But it's a bathroom - hooray! We

are now a 1.5 bathroom family!

In My Little Town

Have lived in a smaller community steadily
since 1987. When the nearest big city is
over 100 miles away, you become accustomed
to things others would miss! Here are some
of the things about small town life that would
drive someone from a bigger city bonkers if they
had to live here.

1. NO MALL. I cannot tell you the last time
I was in a mall. If I had to guess I would
say somewhere around 7 years ago in Pueblo.
And that mall is very small.

2. I have no idea what the latest movies are out
at the theater, or even how much it costs. Yes
we have movie theaters here, I have no idea
if the movies are current or not.

3. No Starbucks - Don't get addicted to latte or
some other strange food or drink, you won't
get it here.

4. No Red Lobster - Bummer.

5. Higher prices - on everything from vehicles, food,
clothing, medical. Surprised? Many people from
a bigger area assume that things are cheaper in
a smaller town. Take into consideration the added
cost of transporting goods to a small town. Or
the simple fact a (good) doctor's wife doesn't want
to live there. There is less competition for basic
services such as phone and trash so you are stuck
paying the price of the ones that serve your area.

6. Limited culture - to ballet, to arts, to finer foods, etc.

7. Limited knowledge available - Let's face it, small town
U.S.A. doesn't have a television station. The radio and
newspaper are sub par. You depend more on what you
actually see and actually hear.

8. No night life - Not much to do after 8ish. Most restaurants
will chase you out around 7.

9. More self reliance and independence - You depend on
each other or yourself for entertainment. You don't
live in an area that will bail you out in the event of an
emergency situation. And you learn to make do with
what you have.

10. People assume you don't know anything - it's true.
And the truth of the matter is you have more time to
learn and have more common sense than most other
people from bigger areas that depend on so much more
than you do.

Another house possibility

Yes call me crazy. You think I decide something
that I'd stick with it. But. Well. Okay. Found
another house for sale today. It's a total remodel
job. Priced at $108,900, I think it's a repo. Stopping
there today I found the back door unlocked and went
right in. Didn't look around too much though as I
had visions of someone coming back with a gun in
my face! But apparently it is vacant, as they took
everything of value out of it. Weird as there are
clothes still hanging in the closets though. Anyway
my realtor is trying to get official permission for me to
go over there (with some big flashlights as the
electrical box has been pulled) and look around legally.
It's a cute 3br, 1.75ba house with a full basement. Basement
has a little kitchenette type thingy in it. Kitchen and
baths I really didn't look at, it was dark in there and I'm
skeered! Fireplace in the l/r. 2 car attached garage. Back
deck and privacy fenced. No signs of water damage in
basement (of course it was pitch black and I had an itty
bitty flashlight and I was trespassing so I didn't look TOO
good). Anyway I'm thinking especially if it is a bank repo
of throwing an offer at them of about $50,000 and seeing
what happens. It's right off the highway (160) but that can
be a good or a bad thing depending on how you look at it
(like, not dusting every 5 minutes).

Making an offer on a house

....granted it will be low ball.
The house is interesting. HUGE! 3600 sf or something
like that? 4 br and 3.5 baths. Well if you count a toilet
as a half bath, let me explain. Off of the family room there
is a door, open the door and it is a narrow small room, to
the right is another door that leads to the garage - to the
left is a toilet. :) The house needs some work, but nothing
major that we've found yet. We haven't checked the well
for instance, or the furnace and a/c. The soffitt and faschia
needs work, the windows are old, lots of painting. Some
minor stuff here and there, electrical is a mess. Flooring is
all good that we noticed, basement dry and crack free - no
signs of it ever having water problems. Cool bathroom in
the basement! Neat that it has a master bath off of the
bedroom. Cost of heating with propane would be a nightmare.