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Aneeda72 said:
I have surgery in a week so about 3 weeks or so after surgery when I am not in screaming pain. I can’t decide if I want to sell to a flipper or use a normal real estate. Family thinks we will get more from a normal sale but selling to a flipper is less stressful and nerve wracking. Also a flippers closes in a couple days.
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If in your situation, I'd talk to a flipper and a RE agent. See what both think your house will fetch and take it from there.

Most escrows are closing in 30-45 days. It takes people that long to move anyway...
 

StarSong said:
If in your situation, I'd talk to a flipper and a RE agent. See what both think your house will fetch and take it from there.

Most escrows are closing in 30-45 days. It takes people that long to move anyway...
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I agree 😂 cause daughter is insistent and we have time. The only urgency is I’m tired of his lazy butt. Do you think it would sell faster if I included one fat old lazy dude? 😊
 
We got up early and headed for the beach. On the way, we did the wildlife loop; the "wildlife count" ended up being lots of birds, three turtles and one marsh rat. I think the wildlife had the sense to stay out of the sun.....unlike the humans.

Then we went to the beach at the national seashore. It was hotter 'n the hinges of hell and crowded. We ended up down at the nude beach but much to everyone's gratitude, I kept my clothes on.

Then off to a restaurant on the water where I had the best oyster stew I've ever had.

Now I'm going to take a nap.

Tomorrow back to my usual boring life. Sigh. I should have spaced it out over three weeks.
 

Well it was boiler of a day ..weather wise, glorious sun and temps in the mid 80's , so we decided to go and have lunch at the pub and walk around our nearest small city ( not London) but in the other direction, thinking that half the country would as they usually do have headed for the beaches and so , inland would be easy... not a bit of it, too late as we drove into the main road through the city to find that we were wrong and everyone was here.. or so it seemed.

Took us about 1/2 hour to get parked...every bar was crazy full, not helped by the masses of ecstatic football supporters.. who were celebrating Englands' win against Croatia.. and letting everyone know it by their loud chanting through the streets....so instead we had a wander around the small museum which houses very little tbh.. but was once a courthouse and now they use the courthouse as a public cafeteria.
No-one was there when we went in so I took a few photos.. apart from the addition of the table and chairs the courtroom remains essentially the same as it was in 1967

https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/visit/st-albans-museum-gallery

We weren't permitted to go down into the cells under the dock in the court because of lack of distancing , even tho' there was only the 4 of us there..us and 2 friends .. but no matter you can see them in the link above..

I sat in the judges chair looking directly at the dock where my friends stood while I took pics... and then stood in the dock looking up at the judges bench...

We didn't stop and have a coffee while we were there tho' ...

Here's the pics from the Courthouse cafe which is situated within the museum


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The prisoner dock on the right... and we were able to walk all the way around through little doors
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The prisoner dock ... and the door behind is the entrance from the museum atrium of the Museum and where the restaurant bar is...

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hiraeth2018 said:
It's 10 am on a Friday... just like yesterday or the day before or the day before that... but wait!
TODAY some excitement! I am having a gas insert placed into my wood burning fireplace. I'm sure "we" have many opinions here about what is better to burn but I am soooooo looking forward to not having to storing wood, chopping my own kindling, tracking wood chips, dirt and critters into my living room! With the cost of $150-250 per cord of wood here I am bowing down to the convenience of clicking a button and presto... clean fire and warmth for the damp winter here on the NW Pacific coast!
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I went to church, went and bought some shorts and cool tops. Gave away the old ones that I got too big for!
 
Packing, packing, packing. Went to Costco to get some boxes for stuff to give my son and they hardly had any ☹️ But got a few. Put the table out with three chairs with free sign. The lady who lives across the stree—grandson took it. They were so happy as they didn’t have a table and they had only one chair and there are three of them. 😊. Made my day.
 
Jules said:
How strange after people being desperate to have some place to go.
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Well tbh it was early evening, and in an out of the way hamlet... and pubs which are open ( that's only ones with outside spaces)... are still not open as they were before..most are closing much earlier than before too.., and track & trace puts a lot of people off from going tbh...also I think lots of people have realised over this last 15 months that it's a lot cheaper to buy alcohol from the supermarket and drink at home... and have saved a whacking load of money doing so....

Once we're fully opened again as a country, which looks now like at least another month due to the new Indian Variant, then pubs without outside seating spaces ( mainly those in towns and cities)...can re-open, and there will no longer be track & trace so it will be interesting to see if that makes a difference..
 
hollydolly said:
Well tbh it was early evening, and in an out of the way hamlet... and pubs which are open ( that's only ones with outside spaces)... are still not open as they were before..most are closing much earlier than before too.., and track & trace puts a lot of people off from going tbh...also I think lots of people have realised over this last 15 months that it's a lot cheaper to buy alcohol from the supermarket and drink at home... and have saved a whacking load of money doing so....

Once we're fully opened again as a country, which looks now like at least another month due to the new Indian Variant, then pubs without outside seating spaces ( mainly those in towns and cities)...can re-open, and there will no longer be track & trace so it will be interesting to see if that makes a difference..
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CNN was talking about you guys having the Indian Variant, didn’t catch it all, is it really bad in some places there?
 
Aneeda72 said:
CNN was talking about you guys having the Indian Variant, didn’t catch it all, is it really bad in some places there?
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Do they call the Indian variant by another name. In Canada that’s what it started out as. Now they’re called by new names. Since the Indian one is the 4th variant, it’s called Delta. We have it and it’s our biggest concern.
 
I took a walk around two of the parks near me. There are actually four. I took my camera so I could get some new photos for my blog. On the way back I talked to our maintenance man and he is going to check my toilet since I am still having trouble with it. He said there is a leak in the storage room that he thinks is coming from my toilet. He asked if it is wet around it and no, it is not. Never has been. My problem with it is the water in the tank. Sometimes there isn't any........maybe.........I will get a new toilet! I hope so.
 
Aneeda72 said:
Packing, packing, packing. Went to Costco to get some boxes for stuff to give my son and they hardly had any ☹️ But got a few. Put the table out with three chairs with free sign. The lady who lives across the stree—grandson took it. They were so happy as they didn’t have a table and they had only one chair and there are three of them. 😊. Made my day.
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So I packed up and separated all this stuff my son said he wanted, I was going to throw it away. It took most of the day. He comes over, sees the boxes stuff, says he does not want it today. But you are here so take it and he threw a fit. An actual fit.😮. He’s over fifty years old.

Said he just came for the compressor. Said he didn’t have room for the other stuff, and it was hOt and he was tired. Well, I in agony with my hip and my shoulder and my stupid spine, but I still packed all this stuff up and did not complain.

Fine. I went to unlock the back yard gate so he could get the to the compressor, and when I got back to the front he had driven off. 😳

Took the night to think about it as I was very upset. I texted him that he does not get to talk to me that way, that I am not forcing any “stuff” on him (he said he wanted these things), and we could just pretend he has moved away like his sister. Told him I am not taking any crap from him or his sister. Plus I did not need or want to see him again for a long time. He said fine.

And there you go. I am DONE taking crap from the family. New motto: be nice or be gone.
 
Rainy day here. Spent the morning on the computer doing photo editing. Wolfed down a ham/cheddar sandwich for lunch and went to the supermarket to pick up stuff for tonight's (and probably 3 other nights') dinner. Prepped ingredients for tonight's pot (1.5 lbs. chuck sliced up, 1 whole sweet onion diced, 5 strips smoked bacon sliced, 1 pt. mushrooms, pkg onion soup mix, pkg tavern roast sauce, 3 cups beef broth, 2 tbl ketchup, tbl garlic, tbl brown sugar, etc.). I get cheap cuts of meat which ends up mouth-watering tender after being pressure cooked.

Got results of physical and blood work - all great with no problems and no addl. meds needed. Am very happy and thankful about that. Played several games of MahJong and went back to work on the computer, alternating between photo work, forums and newswires.
 
I'm taking a new biologic for my arthritis, so I really had a lot of energy today. It felt good. So, I got a lot done.

Phone calls and appts made this morning. Then colored my hair. CVS, grocery store...back home to drop off groceries. More phone calls. Pharmacy, had to get the store manager, cause the the line was 6 deep and not moving!!

She stepped up to the plate and got behind the register and started working. I thanked her and told her I appreciated what she had done. I'll prob call the headquarters and put in a good word for her.

Then got my salad, and here I am. It was only 90* today.
 
Today..it's in the mid 80's... I'm hoping to go out later, but I'm not feeling too well , so I'm giving it a couple of hours to see what happens.

I'll be sorry if I don't get out because this is our last day for a while of sun and heat..tomorrow brings rains and thunderstorms...and drops in temps
 
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