Toad Woods has a frog
May. 15th, 2004 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gerisullivanI closed on my new home yesterday, right on schedule. Lots of papers; different from Minnesota closings, the only state where I had previously bought or sold real estate. Homestead is a whole different law here, one that carries some broad liability protection if you homestead the property. Interesting.
The water may be bacteria-free, but it's time to more thoroughly research what to do about the iron.... (Wasn't an issue in the shallow well. The sellers expected it to be an issue with a drilled well, and it's more than a tad intense right now. In practice -- the numbers are supposedly high but not ridiculously so. Time to dig through the paperwork for the report, too.
The name of the property is Toad Woods. The house itself, a Dutch Colonial, or Dutch Gambrel style, is called The Zeppelin Hangar.
A mere 8,680 pounds of my stuff is sitting in storage in Minnesota. It will take about a week to get to me once I give them the go-ahead to ship it. I waited until I had the house; I didn't want the stress of having my stuff en route and nowhere to put it if the sale fell through. Friends helped me pack an interim kitchen kit. I bought an upholstered
c/o/m/f/y/ chair and a small table at a roadside "antiques" sale.
This weekend is the first of the three annual Brimfield Antiques Fairs -- thousands (or tens of thousands) of people are flocking here to look at and sometimes buy antiques at the largest outdoor antiques festival in the northeast. Something like 4,000+ dealers sell at this thing, and the May show is the biggest. I hope to go to it tomorrow, the last day. On Friday, I sat an extra 45 minutes in traffic, just to get to my bank for the certified check I needed for closing. That night, I took some even-more-back-country roads that I found last summer and avoided the mass of people heading back to the interstates.
A bit after dawn, I went out for an early-morning walk in my woods. Glad I spritzed some Deep Woods Off on first; the skeeters were thick! I made my way into the second marshy bit, but not all the way to the gas line right-of-way clearing. My 4-acres extends a bit beyond the clearing. Four acres isn't that big; I'm surprised I didn't find the edge.
On the way back. I took a closer look at the (utterly manmade) fishpond on my way back to the house. The first thing I saw was a large frog jumping from its spot and swimming underwater across the pond. A few minutes later, I saw it hiding away underneath the water iris. Very neat. When I get high-speed net access, I'll go looking at frog pictures and try to figure out what kind it is.
Toad Woods has well more than one frog from the sound of things last night. No surprise, I have lots of soggy/wetland bits between the trees. I also have hummingbirds, and the former owners left a feeder for them.
If you haven't seen my COA in other fannish forums by the end of this weekend and want it, please drop me an email note with your non-LJ email address. It's fairly public info, but it seems weird just posting it here. Ah. I'll try a Friends-Only post. But the offer still stands for everybody else who might stumble across my words.
I like it here. I look out my windows in every direction and see trees. Well, trees and rocks and birds..and flowers in bloom...to be precise. And a driveway. If I look just the right way, I can see cars drive by on the road, which is a couple hundred feet away. But mostly, I see trees.
The water may be bacteria-free, but it's time to more thoroughly research what to do about the iron.... (Wasn't an issue in the shallow well. The sellers expected it to be an issue with a drilled well, and it's more than a tad intense right now. In practice -- the numbers are supposedly high but not ridiculously so. Time to dig through the paperwork for the report, too.
The name of the property is Toad Woods. The house itself, a Dutch Colonial, or Dutch Gambrel style, is called The Zeppelin Hangar.
A mere 8,680 pounds of my stuff is sitting in storage in Minnesota. It will take about a week to get to me once I give them the go-ahead to ship it. I waited until I had the house; I didn't want the stress of having my stuff en route and nowhere to put it if the sale fell through. Friends helped me pack an interim kitchen kit. I bought an upholstered
c/o/m/f/y/ chair and a small table at a roadside "antiques" sale.
This weekend is the first of the three annual Brimfield Antiques Fairs -- thousands (or tens of thousands) of people are flocking here to look at and sometimes buy antiques at the largest outdoor antiques festival in the northeast. Something like 4,000+ dealers sell at this thing, and the May show is the biggest. I hope to go to it tomorrow, the last day. On Friday, I sat an extra 45 minutes in traffic, just to get to my bank for the certified check I needed for closing. That night, I took some even-more-back-country roads that I found last summer and avoided the mass of people heading back to the interstates.
A bit after dawn, I went out for an early-morning walk in my woods. Glad I spritzed some Deep Woods Off on first; the skeeters were thick! I made my way into the second marshy bit, but not all the way to the gas line right-of-way clearing. My 4-acres extends a bit beyond the clearing. Four acres isn't that big; I'm surprised I didn't find the edge.
On the way back. I took a closer look at the (utterly manmade) fishpond on my way back to the house. The first thing I saw was a large frog jumping from its spot and swimming underwater across the pond. A few minutes later, I saw it hiding away underneath the water iris. Very neat. When I get high-speed net access, I'll go looking at frog pictures and try to figure out what kind it is.
Toad Woods has well more than one frog from the sound of things last night. No surprise, I have lots of soggy/wetland bits between the trees. I also have hummingbirds, and the former owners left a feeder for them.
If you haven't seen my COA in other fannish forums by the end of this weekend and want it, please drop me an email note with your non-LJ email address. It's fairly public info, but it seems weird just posting it here. Ah. I'll try a Friends-Only post. But the offer still stands for everybody else who might stumble across my words.
I like it here. I look out my windows in every direction and see trees. Well, trees and rocks and birds..and flowers in bloom...to be precise. And a driveway. If I look just the right way, I can see cars drive by on the road, which is a couple hundred feet away. But mostly, I see trees.
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Date: 2004-05-15 04:08 pm (UTC)K. [is your e-mail changing?]
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Date: 2004-05-15 04:50 pm (UTC)Any cance for Baggiecon this year?
Big hugs, many congratulations, much happiness.
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Date: 2004-05-17 02:34 pm (UTC)Say, Geri, Whatever Happened to the Blimps You Had at Minicon 34?
Date: 2004-05-17 03:24 pm (UTC)Re: Say, Geri, Whatever Happened to the Blimps You Had at Minicon 34?
Date: 2004-05-17 08:20 pm (UTC)We refilled them several times several years. I think they're all gone but maybe one that had morphed into a stand-up decoration only, with red sparkle-paper fins for a base. The remote controls turned out to be crap -- one of the four never worked, and I think two of them died the first weekend of use.
My budget won't support it anytime in the foreseeable future, but I'd be much more inclined to try one of the 8-12 foot advertising blimps if I were going for another one. Something with more durability than the mylar balloons and crap-plastic remotes that come with the toy models.