Cat's Outta The Bag...

[Stoneman]

Leaving for the Gettysburg area in a few days and spending five or six days scouting towns, neighborhoods, houses and the such. The plan is still leasing a house for a year to make sure it's where we want to be. Yeah, I know. But we don't want to get stuck somewhere and have to deal with selling & buying, selling & buying, selling & buying. If that area of the country is where we want to be it gives us plenty of time to find just the right place and not be rushed. I'm not dealing with this again!

And to be honest, not being responsible for every last bit of maintenance and any little thing that goes wrong is kinda appealing - even if it's only for a year.

[Stoneman]

What a great trip, AGAIN. Met some locals, met some New England transplants - one from Amesbury, one from Merrimack NH. Great peeps, great times.

I don't want to jinx anything, but I'm pretty sure we found our house down there. Just on the edge of the battlefield (THE "Wheatfield"), yet just enough out of the way. Way more house than we'll ever need at this point, but the price was holy-fuck! I'm not gonna get too much into it until it's a done deal, but we'll be getting all the lease paperwork and info this week. Just an amazing house & yard with plenty of room to keep my shit and plenty of room for the kids/grandkids when they come to visit.

Our house is still coming along fine and the interior is almost done. I was able to get to work on the yard and shoreline yesterday and it's looking pretty damned good. Still haven't got the dock in, but I kinda hadta wait until I cleaned up the shoreline. Everything is there, just gotta get it together and in the water. Shit just keeps getting more real. Now it's like, upon us. We're getting excited as hell.

We're hoping to fill & sign all the paperwork this weekend to get our house ready to list. We're hoping to have it listed by next weekend and fingers crossed it goes quickly. We're ready!

[Stoneman]

We got an unexpected very generous offer yesterday from a fella we helped out when he was starting up his painting gig last year. The short version is, he saw some of my painting pics on social media and reached out. He'll be painting the garage next week for silly money. We'll have to prep it and pick up the paint we want, but he'll do the rest. In & out in two days. Damn near shit myself. That'll clear up AT LEAST 3 or 4 days for me.

BIG mistake. I opened up a can of worms. We tried to match the house by painting over the dark brown paint the garage is. 5 gallons did 2 coats on 3 sides only and still looks like shit. We should've just kept it dark brown and recoated. But no, we're too caught up in trying to compete with the other big ticket sellers. Hindsight, huh? That's the only thing I regret putting the paint to so far. But man, now it's up to me to get it looking good.

No hard feelings for the dude that painted it. He kept me in the loop for the two days and knew right away the paint wasn't gonna cover good. He did a bang up job for short money for the task we burdened him with. Live & learn I guess...

[Stoneman]

We're still waiting for Randy to feel up for whacking some low hanging branches, but we get it. It's more important he's healthy.

[RandyO]

We're still waiting for Randy to feel up for whacking some low hanging branches, but we get it. It's more important he's healthy.

I'm getting around a little better, but not to the point that I dare aggravate anything, just hit 229.9 on scale, haven't seen that since I first met you 26 years ago

[Stoneman]

I'm getting around a little better, but not to the point that I dare aggravate anything, just hit 229.9 on scale, haven't seen that since I first met you 26 years ago

Yup, just razzin' ya. Get to feeling better bub!