Ask Me About My House

[JustGeorge]

So your sitting on a sofa or chair and you see things that obviously need fixing,do you say I’ll deal with that tomorrow,next week month or year or do you go straight at it?.

Depends. Often I don't have the know-how to fix stuff. I'm not real handy. If its something I can fix, I do it... as soon as I can excavate my behind from the seat.

Several years ago I was working as a groundskeeper for a woman named Erin. While I was there, Erin hired a couple of unscrupulous idiots to remodel pretty much everything about her property.

I worked with these guys for a couple of weeks until I figured out what was up. What tipped me off was when we spent two days scraping and repainting windows in a wall that we were getting ready to tear out anyway.

That's two days labor and material with three guys working and all for naught.

So, I tried to tell Erin what was going on but she didn't want to hear it. The two guys she hired (let's call them Mutt and Jeff) played her like a fiddle: constantly flattering her, dropping what they were doing to hold the door for her, calling her "M'lady", . .

She ate that stuff up with a spoon.

Anyway, I wound up writing a song about it called the Fall of Eryndale.

The verse about Mutt and Jeff went like this:

The Queen had knaves, Who lavished her with praise,

Then stole from her and laughed behind her back,

The queen refused to peer beyond her daze,

Or come down from the clouds and face the facts,

So instead of stone and mortar the knaves used mud and shale,

And that was how they built the fragile walls of Eryndale.

Sounds about right.

At some point, I can't feel sorry for the 'Erin' types anymore, and just laugh... seems karmic.

 

[JustGeorge]

Do you know your neighbours? Do you socialise with your neighbours and if not would you like to?
Are there parks and cycle paths nearby.Do you have a Church Mosque or Temple nearby.
The question of course is we all want to know how much you paid for it.But we are all far to polite to ask.
So we will skip that one.Enjoy.

I know a few faces; only one I ever stop to talk with. There's one I avoid at all costs, and have instructed the kids not to talk to him, either.

There is a large park within walking distance; has a pool, playground, gold course, tennis courts. I think we've gone... once(and that was just to the playground area). There are no cycling areas or paths, but the neighborhood is considered 'scenic', so we get a lot of walkers on the sidewalk.

There are quite a few churches; the neighborhood is actually called Church Row for its busiest street being lined with old churches, one right next to another. There's a synagogue within a long walk or a short drive's distance, and a mosque about ten minutes away. Sadly, there are no temples in my city at all.

56,000 was what we paid, which is very underpriced for this area(and the only way we could ever afford to live here). The previous tenants got as drunk as they possibly could, and attempted to remodel. The bathroom was... well, the shower head pointed.. directly on the floor(and wasn't movable). It was a hot mess. I swear they got the kitchen materials out of the nearest landfill. Everything needed serious cosmetic work. But, the structure was sound. And it had more rooms than we thought we could get. So we bought it.