We Got A Full Price Offer

We got a full price offer for the farm,

had it listed on Zillow for $649,999

The couple who offered are from San Diego

I sincerely hope they appreciate at least the house

They aren't hors people & it hurts my feelings that they won't even appreciate the quality of the barn

The lady was about 30, said they have a 2 year old daughter, an African Gray Parrot & an Australian Shepherd. That damn dog will just chase the chickens that I offered to leave here for them.

They wanted to keep our generator, the riding lawn mower & the tractor with all the implements. WHF do they want a tractor when they don't even do farm animals? We said NO on the tractor. 

When they tried to offer $15,000 less for no tractor, we said take it or leave it.

On Wednesday they had the inspection.

Yesterday it was the water test.

Then the septic inspection, which didn't go well. They discovered that one of the two arms has failed & practically accused us of 'fixing' the other one.

Today said they want $25,000 credit for repairs to septic and that the roof over the implement shed leaks so it needs to be replaced & there is no insulation under the floor except in the kitchen but rats got into that so its ruined. 

I said no, price is $650,000. Take it or leave it.

Stubborn assholes will probably take it.

I don't want to move, we have no place chosen to move to. I don't want to live with my in-laws, they are hoarders & their house smells. I'd go to work stinking to high heaven.

We should know Monday morning if they choose to purchase or back out.

 

Cleaned The Barn

The barn wasn't too messy but I wanted to straighten it up some & get current photos.

At the front end, this is Macks stall that Wifi uses and Gussys stall just past it.

From the back.

You can just about see the aisleway net. It came off a ferry & fits here perfectly. Horss could easily jump it but its a psychological barrier more than anything. They all respect it.

Four of the stalls have corner feeders but Gussys is too high for him so he gets his bit of grain in a rubber feeder on the floor.

Actually all of them are getting theirs in tubs on the floor right now.

I love that there is water in the middle of the barn aisle

Are a safe place to hang halters where the horses can't get to them & mess them up.

This red & white rope is used more than all the rest put together.

Wash rack

This drain grate came from the same farm where we got the stall fronts

Stalls from the back of the barn. I've got hay in this one right now & there are a bunch of colored hay nets just waiting to be fed to the horses. They are color coded, blue for Joey, green for Wifi, red for Gussy & black for Mack. That doesn't mean they aren't all fed out of whichever one I feel like giving them but Gussy gets a lot less hay, Wifi gets more than him & both boys get about 10 lbs each feeding.

That net on the door is from the ferries, I've got 2 & they make great barriers to keep the horses in if I don't want to have the doors closed.

 

Unplanned Time Off

 I deliberately bid into an on-call shift at work so I could get out of the sellers booth for a while & do some Traffic & Plank shifts.  

This is an older photo with a now retired and much missed Wendi directing traffic onto the ferry.  We're supposed to stand between the 2 loading lanes of traffic and have them go out & around but there are too many on their cell phones & not paying attention so I get them started & then get out of the way. 

Traffic people have it pretty easy at our dock, since theres only one boat every hour & 15-ish minutes, they can relax a lot.

Heck, everyone there can.

This is Craig in the sellers booth. Its about 5 feet wide & 10 feet long. When selling, we're mostly stuck in here for a 10 hour shift. Plus, you never get to stop working because everyone has to come through the booths to get onto the dock.

There are also a lot of people looking for the motel, conference hall, museum & a plethora of other places & we have to open the gate & send them on their way.

This is taken from the Plank cab area. This is where people walk onto & off of the boats. When doing this shift you push buttons to raise or lower the cab & the apron, once in a while you'll push another button. Thats it. We make it look harder than it is.

Election Night

Tonight is the big night, when we discover if President Trump wins or if we get a new president. I voted for President Trump, again, because I believe he is the man for the job. 

Since he has been in office I personally have been able to save for retirement, I have been able to take some awesome vacations and I've just never been so financially secure. Our entire country has been more prosperous than at any other time in our history.

I'm not watching the news, I'm not listening to the radio & I'm not talking politics to anyone. I can post here simply because this is MY page where I post my own thoughts.

I'm not a person who prays much but I am praying that enough people will vote for him, again.

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In our state, Washington, our current governor is Jay Inslee, a Democrat, that is RUINING our state. 

He promised NO NEW TAXES but has raised them higher than any previous governor. The people of the state have voted THREE times to have $30 car tabs yet Inslee and his cronies have beaten us down, this last time they said we didn't know what we were voting for.

Inslee has shut down our state & ran small business out of business, he's made it a crime if we don't wear a mask in public and he has let the druggies run rampant & said its OK for the rioters in Seattle to be there. 

So along came Loren Culp, a decent human being, a police chief from Eastern Washington, a K-9 cop. He is a Republican and he believes in what I believe in.

We went to one of his rallies & listened to him speak. He was approachable & kind. He isn't a career politician. Here is a bit of an article about Loren Culp:

When he applied to be a police officer 10 years ago, Loren Culp was 49. He had no experience in law enforcement, but said the job would fulfill a childhood dream.

Six years later, the former construction business owner was promoted to police chief in Republic, a town of 1,100 people in northeastern Washington. In that role, Culp has managed a department that, at its peak, consisted of himself and one other officer.

Now, Culp is applying for a much bigger job: leading Washington state, with a population of 7.6 million and more than 68,000 state employees.

Get the entire interview here: https://www.kxly.com/how-loren-culps-book-tour-turned-into-a-campaign-for-wa-governor/

This is my choice for Governor, the small town guy who knows how life actually is. He said his first change if he wins is to withdraw the mandatory mask mandate & get small businesses open again. I sincerely hope Mr. Culp wins.

 

There's A New Kid In Town

 There's a new kid and a returned kid. Soren is back with us for a while. His mom had a baby last Friday; we welcomed Lincoln Gene into the family at 2:46pm, weighing in at 4 lbs 14 oz and 18" tall. 

 Soren has been staying with us till his mom is able to take care of him at home and its taking our entire village to care for him because with the Covid BULLSHIT going on, he is home schooled & suddenly I'm in 3rd grade. 

It's all online & with books provided by the school but his lazy ass mom didn't see the need to pick up his books in the previous 2 months he was in school & then they moved & didn't have internet for another 2 weeks so he's really behind. But Soren is a trooper & while class is in session he does great. He enjoys participating and speaks right up. He also gets the math very well. We went to the school & gathered his books & supplies so he is liking it even more.

Mom was released yesterday and came home, got a nice long shower and packed a bag to go back to the hospital. Little Lincoln was born a month early & there have been complications so he has to stay a while longer. Mom is lucky that she can stay in the hospital with him. I've done a lot of baby shopping in the last 2 weeks and they should be pretty well set, at least for a while. I hope she doesn't expect me to do this all the time, I do have my own bills I'd like to pay. Baby Daddy stayed in the hospital with her from Friday till yesterday, then he stayed home last night. I hope he's looking for another job because he hasn't worked in 3 weeks & I'm not paying their rent.

I've decided to have Christmas here & I'm telling everyone that we'll do a gift exchange, $20 limit. I'll tell everyone that families/couples only need to get one gift. Here's the kicker: I'm giving everyone the same name on their gift person, that will be SOREN. 

Soren

9 years old

size 8 shirts & 8 slim pants

size 3 shoes

Likes: Beyblade toys; they had this at Walmart for $29.99 three days ago, now its $43.  Hhhmmm...

I want to find some nice little baby toys, rattles & stuff but with Lincoln I can get away with just a single toy, he won't know.

We Travel A LOT

 We took another trip to Las Vegas, this time just to relax. But it as 103* there every day & we chose to do a lot of hiking in the desert. 

Day 1: to El Dorado mine area, about 7.5 miles. Then Jubilee mine & swam in Lake Meade.

Day 2: to Mt Charleston & hiked UP to a waterfall, 2.5 miles, then home to the pools.

Day 3: Didn't hike this day but spent the day in town going to junk stores & just doing nothing. Swam in the lazy river & the pool, felt great. 

Day 4: Valley of Fire State Park, which is BEAUTIFUL, and a hike to a ghost town, 2.5 miles.

Day 5: Started our drive home, up highway 93. About 40 miles north of Las Vegas we almost died when a semi truck didn't see us & drove into our lane of traffic, head on. He had to leave the road on our right to avoid us, and we had a semi passing us at 70mph on each side of us. Scary shit. But we made it to Jackrabbit Tunnel and explored there till dark. I found an old rusty metal bed frame, brought that sucker home.

I had flown down, Lan had driven with his parents. They bought a brand new class C RV & were picking it up in Draper, Utah, so Lan dropped them off & then picked me up on Sunday morning at LAS. I had paid for our R/T air flights in July, $255 for both of us & I only used one of mine, making it expensive but we had a better trip because we were able to drive home together and see more. 

Another Road Trip

We took a 4 day weekend and drove over to Idaho AGAIN to view houses. 

The first one was in Dixie, way out in the middle of absolutely nowhere. 

The house was at the end of the road, 3 miles from Dixie, 2.5 hours from the next closest town of Elk City & another 2.5 hours to the closest grocery store in Grangeville.

This is the Black Diamond Lodge

Sleeps 15, on 7.5 acres in the heart of the mountains.

Its got so much going for it but its not livable all year and there's nowhere for the horses.

There could be pens built but my horses are pasture ornaments, not ridable to the trip over would stress them out.

This is the 4 unit apartments, each one has its own bedroom & bathroom, the two end units each have small kitchenettes. Each room comes fully furnished.

This is the Kitchen building

Inside its got the kitchen, a small bathroom & seating area. It comes fully furnished with all the appliances you could ever need.

From the porch of the owners residence, you can target shoot on your very own range

Inside owners house

This is the hot tub house, its got 4 large screened windows and the floor tilts to one side and the tub doesn't work but its got potential

We loved this place as a full time residence for us but I'm not too happy with the 5 hours to a grocery store, 8 to a costco. The drive between Grangeville & Elk City was gorgeous, along a river, but the last half of the drive is long and no river.

The next day we saw a house along the way that was in a beautiful location, 5 fenced acres of gently rolling pastures. The house had been purchased in August 2019 for $199,000 and then totally remodeled probably from the studs out. Everything brand new. But the house was too small, there was no garage, shop or barn & they're asking $425,000

So we continued on to this house in an airport neighborhood. 

5 acres, 3 of it fenced. Big 2700 SF house and a 44x44 sf airplane hanger that would make an amazing garage & shop for Lan. The fence was nice and would definitely keep the dogs in. 

This is the view from the road

This is the view from the runway.

I don't know when this photo was taken but there is no green grass now, its just rocks & weeds.

This airplane doesn't even belong to the owners

The hanger opens like this but that's a man door on it. Inside has concrete floor, insulated & heated. Its large enough to park 8 cars easily if needed, its got a projection tv & screen on the wall & heavy duty shelving along the walls

There are 2 acres of land on this side of the fence that can't have anything on them. You can drive to your hanger with your car but you can't park your car outside. 

You're buying this as a runway & if you don't fly then you're wasting money.

The have CCRs & an HOA of $230 per year that goes up 3% every year and they can make you pay for improvements to the roads & runway.

Plus only 2 horses 'behind' house but that would be in the hot, sunny, no shade place.

The house was nice enough and big inside.

The kitchen hadn't ever been updated but it was still OK and had tons of storage.

None of the windows down there open & the shades were up so it was pretty dang hot inside. 

The deck stops right outside the slider, 

it should have been extended all the way down & around & awnings installed.

This is the downstairs family room I guess, it was a bit cooler but not much. That's a bar, which we would have to remove and make into something else, maybe a closet?

The master bedroom had regular closets & a bathroom where they boasted a jetted tub but the jets were broken & popped out & the tiles around it were broken & probably had rot underneath.

This house is totally livable and move in ready but not for us. I'm pretty spoiled with my quartz kitchen countertops, hardwood floors and Lan enjoys his garage, shop & equipment shed and we both enjoy our covered arena & barn.

There were several other houses we were supposed to view but they all went Pending or our realtor couldn't get ahold of the owners to view. 

On the way to Idaho the sky was clear and blue, on the way home the smoke from the Oregon & California fires came in & from CDA west, we couldn't see more than a half mile away. At Snoqualmie Summit, we couldn't see the lake nor the ski lifts & both of us felt like puking. You could smell the campfire smell & those fires were hundreds of miles away.