That's a lot!Another Tumeric plant Harvested cleaned and sliced up View attachment 26356
You won't see tumeric like that at the store ladies and gentlemen!
Into the Dehydrator View attachment 26358
This is so much more efficient than just storing the root!
It looks like iris rhizomes, LOL.Another Tumeric plant Harvested cleaned and sliced up View attachment 26356
You won't see tumeric like that at the store ladies and gentlemen!
Into the Dehydrator View attachment 26358
This is so much more efficient than just storing the root!
Nice. All you need is a little palm tree for the island...Just signed a contract for what will hopefully be my new gardening spot. Finally got enough of the 'growth' of this little town and it's predilection for what they call progressive neighborhoods that are half-million-dollar cookie cutter McMansions sitting on half-acre lots. They don't want large lot owners because they can get more property tax from little lots with big houses. Never mind what's happened to the demographics and politics of the town, but the real clincher is the traffic and number of times we hear sirens blasting down the nearby road. When I moved here, I think I heard a siren every two or three weeks. Now it's more or like every 2-3 hours. I guess that's progress.
Ennyhoo, this one's 18 acres, 3 Bed, 2.5 bath, and a couple bonus rooms upstairs. Full unfinished basement. 16x32 pool out back, tractor shed and chicken coop with a nearby muscadine vineyard with about 15 vines. The pond is nearly 4 acres, and stocked with catfish, bream, crappie, large mouth bass, and grass carp. Near the head of the pond there's a pad where a double-wide manufactured home was sitting. Home is gone, but the utilities are all still there. There's what looks like another pad in the back yard between the house and the grape vines. We prequalified for the purchase, and signed the contract yesterday. Only one small glitch in the loan approval because of my income changes this year and in another 18 months, thanks to Disability rules and hitting age 65, but I'm thinking it'll be OK. Hoping to close on 09/29.
The best part is we're gonna do this without having to sell our current home immediately. That will let us do some polishing on it to get premium dollar out of it. If all goes according to plan, we'll be in the new digs and debt free this time next year with little more investment than the down payment. It feels good to have that kind of purchase power.
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Pretty excited about it. The missus has had me hunting houses for the past two months, and it's all been a pretty boring process to me. Nice house, crappy or very little land. Nice land, house was a dump. We looked at what some realtors called fixer-uppers, and the best way to fix them was to start with a bulldozer. Sometimes, we thought "Yeah, we can handle that", then started thinking about how much work it was to build the shed out back and how long it would take before we had a house we could move to. The time really wasn't the issue so much as the extra costs associated with running back and forth for restorations, as well as the cost of materials.Nice. All you need is a little palm tree for the island...
Beware the pre-inspection: if you know about something, you're legally obligated to disclose it in most cases. Ask your realtor.Pretty excited about it. The missus has had me hunting houses for the past two months, and it's all been a pretty boring process to me. Nice house, crappy or very little land. Nice land, house was a dump. We looked at what some realtors called fixer-uppers, and the best way to fix them was to start with a bulldozer. Sometimes, we thought "Yeah, we can handle that", then started thinking about how much work it was to build the shed out back and how long it would take before we had a house we could move to. The time really wasn't the issue so much as the extra costs associated with running back and forth for restorations, as well as the cost of materials.
We stumbled up on this one last week and went to see it on Thursday. Contract is signed, and the only thing that can stop me is the underwriters. We're gonna have to do a little negotiating on some things but nothing I'd call a deal breaker. The pool's in pretty bad shape, but the liner, filter, and pump are supposed to be only 3 years old. I just hope water chemistry hasn't killed the elastomers in the liner. I built and serviced pools to put myself through college, so there's nothing I can't do on it, but pools are expensive when they're kept up, much more so when they're not. I've seen many get turned into giant flower pots. We could move in if we had to, but want to do all the painting and patching while it's empty, Then, we'll reverse the process on this one when it's empty, and doll it up for premium dollar. I'm even considering a home inspector to give me a punch list when I think I'm done. Might be money well spent.
Yeah it's a weird one good if you like curries Indian cuisine.That's a lot!
I barely use it at all but I may have to put some in.
Mate being in the Termite inspection game and doing pre purchase inspections alongside builders put it this way I WOULDN'T PART WITH ANY Money until a prepurchase inspection has been carried out buy someone who is worth thier weight in salt oh I mean Gold.Pretty excited about it. The missus has had me hunting houses for the past two months, and it's all been a pretty boring process to me. Nice house, crappy or very little land. Nice land, house was a dump. We looked at what some realtors called fixer-uppers, and the best way to fix them was to start with a bulldozer. Sometimes, we thought "Yeah, we can handle that", then started thinking about how much work it was to build the shed out back and how long it would take before we had a house we could move to. The time really wasn't the issue so much as the extra costs associated with running back and forth for restorations, as well as the cost of materials.
We stumbled up on this one last week and went to see it on Thursday. Contract is signed, and the only thing that can stop me is the underwriters. We're gonna have to do a little negotiating on some things but nothing I'd call a deal breaker. The pool's in pretty bad shape, but the liner, filter, and pump are supposed to be only 3 years old. I just hope water chemistry hasn't killed the elastomers in the liner. I built and serviced pools to put myself through college, so there's nothing I can't do on it, but pools are expensive when they're kept up, much more so when they're not. I've seen many get turned into giant flower pots. We could move in if we had to, but want to do all the painting and patching while it's empty, Then, we'll reverse the process on this one when it's empty, and doll it up for premium dollar. I'm even considering a home inspector to give me a punch list when I think I'm done. Might be money well spent.
He was saying he'd get his 'old' house inspected so he knew what to work on before putting it in the market.Mate being in the Termite inspection game and doing pre purchase inspections alongside builders put it this way I WOULDN'T PART WITH ANY Money until a prepurchase inspection has been carried out buy someone who is worth thier weight in salt oh I mean Gold.
The couple hundred bucks you spend on a prepurchase could save you thousands.
Free advice from a hombrewer...
Well still Advice to all you guys anyhow get it checked you just never know...He was saying he'd get his 'old' house inspected so he knew what to work on before putting it in the market.
At least I think that is what he wrote...
Pool had been a real money drain for me, especially considering I'm not using it as much... Definitely go for a proper inspection, probably going to save you money in a long runPretty excited about it. The missus has had me hunting houses for the past two months, and it's all been a pretty boring process to me. Nice house, crappy or very little land. Nice land, house was a dump. We looked at what some realtors called fixer-uppers, and the best way to fix them was to start with a bulldozer. Sometimes, we thought "Yeah, we can handle that", then started thinking about how much work it was to build the shed out back and how long it would take before we had a house we could move to. The time really wasn't the issue so much as the extra costs associated with running back and forth for restorations, as well as the cost of materials.
We stumbled up on this one last week and went to see it on Thursday. Contract is signed, and the only thing that can stop me is the underwriters. We're gonna have to do a little negotiating on some things but nothing I'd call a deal breaker. The pool's in pretty bad shape, but the liner, filter, and pump are supposed to be only 3 years old. I just hope water chemistry hasn't killed the elastomers in the liner. I built and serviced pools to put myself through college, so there's nothing I can't do on it, but pools are expensive when they're kept up, much more so when they're not. I've seen many get turned into giant flower pots. We could move in if we had to, but want to do all the painting and patching while it's empty, Then, we'll reverse the process on this one when it's empty, and doll it up for premium dollar. I'm even considering a home inspector to give me a punch list when I think I'm done. Might be money well spent.
Gonna stop today by the local sports store to pick up new tent and hiking backpack. Hopefully weather gonna be nice.