Remember the Snow Day on Thursday?

[chochiyo_sama]

Well, this is what it looked like at about 1 pm on Thursday afternoon.


That's my house, and those tracks from the front door are my tracks.

I took this picture on my way to the horrible POST OFFICE.

Comments

I know you won't want to read this...

[the_godiva]

but I love your house. I love old houses. That's why I bought one.

I think the problems with your house are the location. Extreme winters and summers and everything in between makes this kind of a house expensive and labor intensive to maintain. And I expect the insulation sucks so there goes the heating bill. And if you've got the original double hung windows with the sash weights...there's more insulation problems.

I love the wood floors. I love the wood trim. I love the real wood interior doors. I've been buying antique '30's and '40's furniture for my house. I have some nice waterfall and veneered pieces. I've also been replacing the light fixtures with vintage ones.

You've owned this house a long time. You must have built up some equity. And the property values must have at least stayed level if not gone up.

So if you hate it so....is there no hope of selling it and moving closer to your new school? Interest rates are going up so the time to sell is really yesterday. Do you know no aggressive real estate people who would really work to unload your albatross and help you find a swan?

And...if you did find a lovely swan in your new town...that would mean a new Post office...right? Maybe they'd even deliver to your door and pick up to? BTW I print out USPS parcel post and priority mail labels at home from online, then I just swing by the P.O. and drop them on the counter. Don't even need to wait in line.

My poor house

[chochiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

I don't really hate the house as much as I hate the town and the fact that I don't have the time, talent, or money to make it into the graceful swan it has the potential to be. I've done a lot to it--but each bit has been expensive.

My friend Jim put gorgeous tile floor into the kitchen at the end of summer. It really makes the kitchen look 100% better. The exterior needs serious work--via siding. The windows on the main floor are the original ones. The ones upstairs were replaced--but it was a long time ago--old rusco windows.

The house was actually insulated by some assistance program when an elderly lady lived in it. So that's not too bad. But every window needs to be replaced--and it needs to be sided. And it really should have a garage built onto it. Sigh

SOOOO much needs to be done to it.

And it is in a town I have grown to HATE.