Here I am having a visit with my geese. There are 13 of those feathery fowl now. This summer I did away with the pond and bought a really big stock tank. My thoughts along that line were that it would be much easier to keep clean. It is definitely easier. And they love the thing. Course I had to build them a dirt berm into it and a platform to give them footing to get out. And in the digging process I screwed up my foot and neglected to go to the doctor so when I do get around to that I will probably have to have it amputated. That is alright. Easy come easy go.
So I had reason to be on the Southside a week or so ago and happened upon a house which is currently being put on the market. Full basement, 2 bedrooms up and 2 down. Laundry down. Patio. Storage shed with electric and cement floor in the back yard. 2 Car attached garage. And neighbors. Located on a cul de sac, so low traffic. 3 blocks from my friends Kay and Frank. And the price is right. I could sell this place and buy that one and put enough in the bank to live on for probably the rest of my life.
Now, I am thinking about this very seriously. Yard work would be minimal. Kitchen is a bit dated, but so am I. The appliances are all new. So is the furnace. Only draw back is no outside fowl are allowed in the city. Imagine the neighbors when I pull up with my stock tank and 13 honking geese! If I could get lucky and find someone to buy this place that would take the geese and promise to never sell them, or eat them, or let the fox eat them, I would be headed for town in a New York minute. (That means really fast!)
Winter is coming on and I am sure at some point it is going to snow. The pond will freeze. The geese will run out of feed and all kinds of problems happen out doors. I do not like winter. Pueblo is not as bad as Hutchinson used to be. We are kind of in a hole here and severe anything is just not the norm. But if I was in town, I could just stay in the house. Well, I still have to shovel the walk. Except there I would have to shovel the driveway, my sidewalk and the one in front of the house. Here I just mash it down. Cities have rules. I forgot that.
So maybe I will just wait a little longer until I am really old and I can go into the Assisted living. Hmmm. Wonder if they will let me bring the 2 dogs, cat, 2 looms, machine quilter, embroidery machine, ebay crap.....
Guess I am going to be cursed with living forever!
So I had reason to be on the Southside a week or so ago and happened upon a house which is currently being put on the market. Full basement, 2 bedrooms up and 2 down. Laundry down. Patio. Storage shed with electric and cement floor in the back yard. 2 Car attached garage. And neighbors. Located on a cul de sac, so low traffic. 3 blocks from my friends Kay and Frank. And the price is right. I could sell this place and buy that one and put enough in the bank to live on for probably the rest of my life.
Now, I am thinking about this very seriously. Yard work would be minimal. Kitchen is a bit dated, but so am I. The appliances are all new. So is the furnace. Only draw back is no outside fowl are allowed in the city. Imagine the neighbors when I pull up with my stock tank and 13 honking geese! If I could get lucky and find someone to buy this place that would take the geese and promise to never sell them, or eat them, or let the fox eat them, I would be headed for town in a New York minute. (That means really fast!)
Winter is coming on and I am sure at some point it is going to snow. The pond will freeze. The geese will run out of feed and all kinds of problems happen out doors. I do not like winter. Pueblo is not as bad as Hutchinson used to be. We are kind of in a hole here and severe anything is just not the norm. But if I was in town, I could just stay in the house. Well, I still have to shovel the walk. Except there I would have to shovel the driveway, my sidewalk and the one in front of the house. Here I just mash it down. Cities have rules. I forgot that.
So maybe I will just wait a little longer until I am really old and I can go into the Assisted living. Hmmm. Wonder if they will let me bring the 2 dogs, cat, 2 looms, machine quilter, embroidery machine, ebay crap.....
Guess I am going to be cursed with living forever!
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