[QUOTE=Sweat-n-Grease;106080]20 years
There are moments ~
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Just beautiful like a picture post card, S&G. I could picture riding my horse through the snow. And curling up by the fire with a good book and glass of wine.
[QUOTE=Sweat-n-Grease;106131]Come-on Friends, post your beautiful pictures. If I can find them, they are in boxes in my cellar, but I have wonderful photos of the places I called home during my decades at sea.[/QUOTE]
I’ll dig up some pics. Problem is, many are at my mother’s and she and I do not get along, so I’ll have to dig into my digital files.
[QUOTE=catherder;106242]I’ll dig up some pics. Problem is, many are at my mother’s and she and I do not get along, so I’ll have to dig into my digital files.[/QUOTE]
We need to get back to the garden.
Please, dig away, and let’s share what we all worked for and are still so doing.
[QUOTE=catherder;106241]Just beautiful like a picture post card, S&G. I could picture riding my horse through the snow. And curling up by the fire with a good book and glass of wine.[/QUOTE]
You’d be most welcomed, Cat.
I am most impressed with your posts, we could have a great time at my back porch round table.
Say Cat, bet you’d go for this:
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Hey Kixt, I visited Bergen, Norway for the NATO exercise Teamwork 88 (yeah, a long time ago) and we stayed for almost 2 weeks. I enjoyed Norway immensely. There was a Cadillac club (I think) in town and they met in a public square. It’s expensive to live there though, isn’t it? I still have some of my kroner from those days. All I could afford was a couple of small souvenirs and a meal or two. And blew the rest staying in a bed and breakfast for one evening.
Hope to get back there some day! Maybe even have a gCaptain meetup. I’ll buy a round…:)[/QUOTE]
Yeah its pretty expensive here looking on the other countries around. A dinner here at a fancy restaurant comes up in about 50 dollar, you do not want to know the fancy expensive stuff costs.
I get shitty payment here in Norway and barely manage on 12k a month.
Would love to meet up
[QUOTE=Sweat-n-Grease;106220]Shoot, you can’t blame her, water must have reached up to your second floor.
That’s very nice property, and water damage can destroy so much.[/QUOTE]
Nah, water never got into the house. It did make for an interesting phone call on the ship while I was riding it out. . .
My current estate in Houston suburbia. It was a rare Houston area snow, back in 04. No temporary stream out front, either.
Houston Snow by cmakin, on Flickr
[QUOTE=cmakin;106309]My current estate in Houston suburbia. It was a rare Houston area snow, back in 04. No temporary stream out front, either. [/QUOTE]
Impressive digs ~
Good Lord, when I was a kid only Medical Doctors, and a few Dentists, lived in such splendor.
Say, you’re not a Doctor are you? 
There is something which has the remembrance of days gone bye, living inside a real log cabin in the Montana mountains. I can relate.
[QUOTE=Sweat-n-Grease;106317]Impressive digs ~
Good Lord, when I was a kid only Medical Doctors, and a few Dentists, lived in such splendor.
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Houston housing prices are pretty low, and the ex wanted to live in a big house. Oddly enough, she moved out 10 months after we moved in. Made things much more peaceful for the rest of us. . .
Yes probably cheaper than my 3 bedroom cape in the northeast!
[QUOTE=cmakin;106419]Houston housing prices are pretty low, and the ex wanted to live in a big house. Oddly enough, she moved out 10 months after we moved in. Made things much more peaceful for the rest of us. . .[/QUOTE]
When I read “big house” I was thinking of something quite different.
Must have got that from all the old black-n-white Cagney movies I enjoy.
This floor plan is the little diddy I got all picked out for myself someday way down the road when I can afford a little lot of land somewhere with enough woods behind it for me to plink shoot and squirrel hunt on. A body of water near by (adjacent to, if I can afford it?) might not be such a bad idea either.
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Not bad, but if one has kids, having all bedrooms on the same floor can be a pain. One of the nice things about the “Big House” is that all of the bedrooms other than the master are upstairs. On top of that, because of all of the available rooms, I was able to keep the bedroom over the master empty . . .
[QUOTE=PaddyWest2012;106540]This floor plan is the little diddy I got all picked out for myself someday way down the road when I can afford a little lot of land somewhere with enough woods behind it for me to plink shoot and squirrel hunt on. A body of water near by (adjacent to, if I can afford it?) might not be such a bad idea either.[/QUOTE]
Keep your dream, Paddy, and make it come true. FYI there are excellent lands available in the North West, with reasonable prices, in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, (Colorado and Utah are a bit more pricey). I suppose it depends upon whether you want to live near a municipality or deep in the back country. Near a municipality, such as Missoula, Montana, for example, the land prices are higher than the back country. I choose the back country but it sure has gotten more populated in the last 20 years.
Best of luck to you ~
If we are talking future plans and dreams I have one. I plan on building a place on Daufuskie Island SC. I picked up 1 acre of land on the island about 12 years ago it was the smartest thing I did in my 20s. Now to get to a point I can build and live over their. The island is just south of Hilton Head Island SC only accessible by boat has about 300 resident so they say but I have never seen more than 20 at one time in one place. The beach is about 4 mi long you can get away with driving on it since the cop only comes over once a month or so and everyone knows when he is on the island. I can get to down town Savannah in 30 min it’s about 20 mi by boat. Their is a Publix grocery store next to Hogans marina in Savannah again 30min by boat to then walk next door to the grocery store. Living on Daufuskie has been a dream of mine since I was say 10 I grew up with a chart of Wassaw Sound and the Savannah River approaches on the wall which shows this little island with roads and no bridge. Not as mysterious or sexy as some of my friends buying land in the Virgin Islands or Roatan in Honduras but it works for me. In the mean time at least once a year my friends and I go over rent golf carts drive around the island drinking a little to much and every time I go over to Daufuskie I want my dream even more. The problem is the older I get the bigger the house gets and the price goes up exponentially.
