Live from Winchester NH 10/19/19

I wasn't feeling good, and I had to take down things, cover my loader and get back to hotel, cleanup, eat and get some rest for the 7+ hour drive. If I didn't have to leave in the morning, things may have been different but I can only get so much done.

 

WeldrDave again, I surely wish I could have been there and I hope to get there maybe next year. Time will tell. And please also tell that wonderful wife of yours we said Hello.

 

So after licking my wounds and Chrissy off to work, I took another perspective of this windshield thing. I try not to dwell on things but looking at this situation, The Good Lord "was" looking down on us! Thank God what ever that was didn't go through!!! Here is a pic from my view when it hit.

 

Yup! As far south as you can go till you fall in the ocean!

 

Not a worry buddy!!! Two days were horrible and bogieb says I jinx the weather everytime I come up! I drug up a bomb-Nor-easter with me this time, seems to be the norm. We got two days of getting odd things done, "it all helps"! Not to mention it's nice being outside and with "Awesome" company!

 

That would've been bad had that rock come through! Glad it didn't.

 

With a little help from my friends!

 

I couldn't agree more!

 

I've been saying to some of you "how close" I live to my neighbors, Look out my windshield pic above and look across the street. That'll tell you right there what it's like down here, nearly everywhere. Some places are even tighter on the Islands. Some places only have 6ft between houses. I have 20 between my neighbor and I. Way to close

 

Morning Sir! I have 2 plans actually, and a 3rd for the unforeseen. 1st, I'd like to start building next late spring/summer after mud season. "Most" of the ducks are in a row and $$$ is available so thats the 1st plan. 2nd, if all doesn't get finished here which I have a few unfinished projects to complete, it'll be in 2021. "That may be the realistic" time frame and I have to have septic done by then, my permit is good through 2021. 3rd, I like having "Cash" $$$$$$$. I don't like dealing with banks which is nearly inevitable but the more $$$$$$$$$ I have up front, the more I can enjoy my retirement and what we worked for all these years! I am not unrealistic in knowing I'll owe some things, thats life. But I'm not forking out every dime I have to the bank to just sit in a house and die! New Hampshire and the Great North up there have way to much to offer me/us to enjoy and venture out!

 

I'm soooooooooooooooooooo ready to be out of here!!! Between my neighbors, traffic, noise, taxes, and just NJ politics/laws, it's beyond time to leave. Ironically, people our/my age are leaving this state in flocks. Our area is an infiltrate of Phila, NY and other places that want to live at the shore. Problem is, there is just no more room!!! And, they still keep coming. Where there used to be rancher style houses, people are flattening them and putting 3 and 4 story homes on them. Then housing prices go up, taxes go up and so on, the vicious cycle continues...

 

Not what I would call "make out" but if I roll the full amount over into NH, I'll be happy. I'll basically have a new house from the sale of this place. NJ has an "exit tax" but it's in reality a capital gains tax. They want their's!!! There is a way around it but you have to be cagey. My biggest issue is not accruing debt, or as minimal as possible.