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Posted on 06/01/2004 9:35:59 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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mmmmmmm..wraparound porch...we wants it precioussssss....
I would *love* to have a wrap-around porch! As much as I like just sittin' outside I would think I was in heaven with a porch. Don't have one here - except just an area tiny enough to open the screen door on. :-(
At the old house I used to have a lovely deck out front (caved in several years ago and I didn't have the money to rebuild it.) I had several musical friends and I used to cook supper and they'd come over and sit out on my deck and they'd all play and we'd sing! I loved those nights. Nothing better!
Too bad I would have no land left if I put one on the current place!
Someday...
I have my dream place just about alll figured out. Want a coupla acres, at least half of it wooded, plus a big area for a garden, a decent house with a big porch, maybe room for a few chickens or other outdoor pets...
I'd like to put a trail around the perimeter for walking or jogging, too.
And you'd have a dress code for this of course! :-)
Yer gonna have to move to a bigger state!
Oh, and the porch gots ta have a swing. Maybe a hammock chair...for sitting in and reading.
ROFL I was thinkin' she and 2J needed the same place!
Naw...plenty of places like that around. And I couldn't afford the ones in most other places. Real estate is relatively inexpensive here.
I can suggest a larger state...
Startin' to sound like heaven there Rosie! :-D
We bought Jr. a hammock chair for his room (birthday present). Haven't installed it yet. I'm painting his room either while he's on choir tour or when he's in Brazil.
I've got the hooks for a hammock in our back yard. But I can't just buy the ordinary hammock at Walmart. I gotta get the lard-@$$ version from Nags Head Hammocks or Pawleys Island Hammocks. They're a little spendy.
Curiosity question, 'cause my siblings say I'm wrong on this.
Do you guys think of ALL New England (Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine included) as being mostly populated, pretty densely, no big spaces left? 'Cause in my experience (serving with people in the military), a lot of southerners think that. They think of the northeast as practically one big city, just like almost all of us in this country tend to associate NY with NYC, when there are HUGH portions of the state that are nothing but woods and farmland.
But the reality is that except for some of the southern New England states, there are acres and acres of nothing but woods. Now...it isn't flat, so it's not like it's fields spreading out as far as the eye can see, but there are long stretches of road where you can only see one house or farm here, another two or three clustered there...mostly nothing. And sometimes not even that.
My own little slice of it, yeah! If it ever happens. But I can dream, and dreaming is nice in and of itself.
Hm...does it begin with a "C" and end in "O"?
Nope. I didn't think of those states as densly populated. I figured pretty much what you said but that the coastal areas of Maine perhaps had a *slight* but more population. More towns anyway.
But, then, I'm always lookin' at maps and studyin' towns and their sizes on the maps.
No, I've never thought that about New England. I've only been as far north as Taxachusetts but I don't even think of them or New York as "all one big city."
'Course we're not all cotton plantations either. ;-)
Yes it is!!!
My dreams always seemed to include living within sight of mountains. So, I could have great scenery to ride and hike. Somehow, I know that I am *not* at my final destination yet! LOL If you saw this place you'd know what I mean!
I know I do. I think of the entire East coast being one big city, everything East of the Mississippi is paved...
You mean it's not? ;~D
Actually, I don't picture that for Vermont or Maine... But yeah, I do see New York and Pennsylvania and Mariland and D.C area as only their cities.
Nope... there's tobacco farms there too huh? ;-)
Mountains, Gandalf, mountains!
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