Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

Nemo14

Nemo14

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You may remember the Great Squirrel Attack of February, 2018, when a squirrel entered our house through the chimney, then when he couldn't get out, attempted to eat his way through the window. We were in FL for the month, and DH had to fly home and get his exterminator friend to try to get the squirrel out. Meanwhile our beautiful kitchen window was reduced to splinters all along the cross pieces (whatever they're called). We looked into replacement windows, but nothing affordable would match the remaining windows, and we (or at least I) really don't like the look of most of the newer plastic windows.

So basically the chewed up window has been left there in place all this time, waiting for DH to attempt to rebuild it. It's still functional, but looks pretty awful. Through a series of coincidences though, this week, we found a company a couple of hours away who actually do this professionally, so yesterday we drove up there with the window, and showed them the damage. The shop is a little hole-in-the-wall place, but very impressive. They showed us exactly what they could do, and assured us that it will look as good as new (well, actually "good as old"). I'm thrilled that it's finally going to be fixed, and hopefully this week we'll be able to pick it up there!
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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SteveBrickNJ said:
As for us, we are in the low 70s. My front yard's cherry blossom is 75% of the way to be at peak blooming.View attachment 365999
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I had a thought (it's about time) a couple of weeks ago when all the flowering trees were in full bloom. I went past an area that had all the same type of trees that had snow white blossoms on them. I thought I should stop and take a picture and then caption it with.. this is the same beauty one gets up north with a new snowfall. The difference is it is warm and sunny here. So basically I am missing out on nothing other then cold air. I'm OK with that. I would have taken pictures, but, my lazy gene kicked in and I just drove on. Besides I wouldn't want to make my northern friends feel bad. That's the kind of thoughtful guy I am.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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JenniferS said:
I’ve exclusively worked with new home builders for the past 30 years, so what happens in resale is beyond my scope.

For sure a high percentage of my buyers are investors ... but they’re not from the US.

We’ve investigated all the ins and outs of becoming a Canadian Snowbird, as that’s our endgame plan.

Real estate is ridiculously expensive in Canada. An American would be better off buying a summer holiday home in upstate NY or Vermont.
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The cost of housing is one of the reason why so many people are leaving Vermont. It is unaffordable unless you are already stinking rich. Their better off in upper, upstate NY. But why would anyone retire to snow.
 
SteveBrickNJ

SteveBrickNJ

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Goofyernmost said:
I had a thought (it's about time) a couple of weeks ago when all the flowering trees were in full bloom. I went past an area that had all the same type of trees that had snow white blossoms on them. I thought I should stop and take a picture and then caption it with.. this is the same beauty one gets up north with a new snowfall. The difference is it is warm and sunny here. So basically I am missing out on nothing other then cold air. I'm OK with that. I would have taken pictures, but, my lazy gene kicked in and I just drove on. Besides I wouldn't want to make my northern friends feel bad. That's the kind of thoughtful guy I am.
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You are so very considerate re not wanting to make your northern friends feel bad😂
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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PUSH said:
I had to Google what that meant. But, yes, at least tornadoes are somewhat isolated. When we had our tornadoes go through in June of 2014, they damaged just the path they were in. I live just a couple blocks south of where the bigger one hit, and we had no damage; we just lost power for 22 hours.

The most widespread damaging storm we've had around here since I've been alive was several years ago with extreme amounts of large hail. Nearly every single home in the city had to have roofs, siding, and other parts of their homes replaced. For weeks we had insurance vans parked in business parking lots. Our house needed new siding (even though we had upgraded, stronger siding put on when we built our house), a new roof, new gutters, new screens on half the windows on the house, new downspouts, and I feel like I'm forgetting something.

And also, we didn't need all of this stuff, but the insurance covered it because it was all pretty banged up and broken.
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There was an F2 that went through my hometown in 2005. It wiped out half the town. Took out pretty much the entire trailer park, damaged the school building, etc. My dad lived on a ranch about 20 miles out of town, and he was supposed to go to a family reunion. My dad always called me a couple times a week, and for weeks he had been reminding me that he wouldn't be able to call because he'd be in Kansas at the family reunion. So I heard from lots of people about the tornado and saw a lot of pictures and I was so grateful that my dad wasn't home. Whew. Then I get a message from my cousin....why wasn't my dad at the family reunion? He said he was going to come. Was he ok?

So I'm calling around frantically trying to find my dad, but the tornado had knocked out the phone lines and it was hard to get someone out into the country to fix them. Finally, he is able to call me and I ask him what happened. He didn't even know there was a tornado....he knew there was a storm, because it had ripped half the roof off his house and the hail had broken all the windows. But he had gotten up in the morning to head to Kansas and realized the pickup was due for an oil change. He didn't want to drive to Kansas with the old oil, and he didn't want to have to drive into town to have it changed, so he decided just not to go. :rolleyes: He took a nap and woke up to the roof being gone.
 
JenniferS

JenniferS

When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Mike made Instant Pot ribs (browned on the bbq), and I made Knorr honey garlic noodles and green beans.

As he’s taking a second helping of noodles, Mike says - Oh good you made two packages.

Me - Honey, when the zombie apocalypse comes and all of you get eaten, and I am the last human being alive ... I will still make two packages.

Mike - Good to know.
 

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