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[Eaglewings]

Wow....I get why you wouldn't want to leave...it is so beautiful.!!! Look at that lake/snow...and dog!

Taken from our deck, various times of year. The entire back of our house is glass so this is the first thing we see every morning. We own 6 lots, all lake front, so no one will ever build close to us. We have constant wildlife and get to watch the eagles in a nearby nest.

I love it here SO much. There is nothing that could make us leave this house.

I love to travel but its true - there's no place like home.


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The hot tub is just below the deck, cantilevered out over the hill. That's our dog, Czar, loving the snow.
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You have a beautiful home! Gorgeous!

Taken from our deck, various times of year. The entire back of our house is glass so this is the first thing we see every morning.

Wow!!! Muddly, that is beautiful! The tranquility... Are you being a biotch showing it? I don't envy people that I am close to it now.
Thanks for sharing...it is great and the idea of preserving it by isolating it with adjacent properties is a fantastic move!

I love to travel but its true - there's no place like home.

Nice "puppy!" I used to have one just like that. His name was Ringo...he died from snake bite.

Thanks very much. It truly is heaven on earth and there's never a day we're not grateful for it. We're on a peninsula so its lake from our front door and lake from the back too. Most of the houses are vacation homes and empty most of the year, as was our place until we retired. Its almost always quiet, as though there is no one else on the lake.

The house was originally a really crappy little 1 bedroom, 1 bath fishing shack but, after years of hard work, is now a big gorgeous home. We've sold our other properties - except for one rental and we have everything we want right here - our studios, books and the time and money to enjoy the time that's left to us.

There are minuses but nothing worth leaving. We have very spotty cell signal, can't stream videos and our internet signal comes and goes. If not for satellites, we wouldn't have anything but electricity!

Czar was a pound puppy. Shepherd/ collie mix and a really wonderful dog. He's not crazy about having two cat siblings and is getting grumpy in his old age. We both dread what we know is coming soon.

defcon4 Sorry to hear your dog was killed by a snake. When I lived outside Tucson, the rattlesnakes were always a concern. I used to have to move as many as 1-2 every single week and really watched our dogs. If you still live around venomous snakes, keep Benedryl on hand in case of another bite. Its not a cure, nothing like that, but it can buy you time to get him to the vet. But, if your vet doesn't have antivenin on hand, you could still be screwed.

I hope no one thinks I've shared these pics to be - uh, I don't know - uppity. If that were the case, I would have posted them a long time ago. Its a beautiful place and we do try to keep it wild and pristine. I wanted to share that.

Just tonight, watching TV and suddenly I see a possum at the back door. I like possums and rehabbed a few. They have the most amazing and vicious looking teeth but it turns out, if you're gentle with them, they can be handled without gloves. Some time, I'll dig out some old photos of a mother and babies I rehabbed. Even though I was handling her babies and moving them all, she was a sweetie, very docile.

You sound like a super smart businessman and are able to live in a awesome place because of your hard work..

Your lake house sounds so pretty and quiet, what a beautiful place to retire. And you built it the way that you want it.

My husband is a smart business man too, as well as his father who came over on a boat from Italy with nothing.

His father bought up some apartments, my husband bought a old victorian that we restored. and I found our house that we rebuilt , it was a 2 bedroom..now a 4 bedroom.

We live in Silicon Valley and our homes have 10x the price since we bought it, but the trade off is bad traffic, smog, and noise from the freeway since netflix tore everything down. Plus there is new rich here , major freaking plastic surgery snobs.
I don't want to sound like a snob, but my neighbor is getting $7000.00 + renting her home..
My husband and I have talked about renting and traveling but , I love the set up that we have here.

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[defcon4]

ad a Sheltie for 12 years and she got cancer of the uterus.. my neighbor across the street got cancer at 20.

You just made me wonder if there are some carcinogens in dog food? Hmmm.. it's worth to think about...

 

[defcon4]

We live in Silicon Valley and our homes have 10x the price since we bought it, but the trade off is bad traffic, smog, and noise from the freeway since netflix tore everything down. Plus there is new rich here , major freaking plastic surgery snobs.
I don't want to sound like a snob, but my neighbor is getting $7000.00 + renting her home..
My husband and I have talked about renting and traveling but , I love the set up that we have here.

Shit, I wish we talked sooner. I spent some time last year in Cupertino, Sunnyvale area last year. The neighbor's house where I was visiting, an old not well maintained one with a small corner lot was sold for a million bucks. The house was built in the sixties. Property prices are way too high over there.

 

[Eaglewings]

We live in Silicon Valley and our homes have 10x the price since we bought it, but the trade off is bad traffic, smog, and noise from the freeway since netflix tore everything down. Plus there is new rich here , major freaking plastic surgery snobs.
I don't want to sound like a snob, but my neighbor is getting $7000.00 + renting her home..
My husband and I have talked about renting and traveling but , I love the set up that we have here.

Shit, I wish we talked sooner. I spent some time last year in Cupertino, Sunnyvale area last year. The neighbor's house where I was visiting, an old not well maintained one with a small corner lot was sold for a million bucks. The house was built in the sixties. Property prices are way too high over there.

Do you know where Los Gatos is? My $400.00 home bought in 1991 is 2.5 million...now.
I lived in Cupertino in 1978 and my rent was $250.00 a month for a studio, it is now over a thousand a month..but then again I was making $2.50 and hour plus tips back then.

Were you here in the summer, it is hot..I hate that now. I want to move but it is too much work..maybe rent it as a furnished home..ummmmmmm thinking.

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[defcon4]

Do you know where Los Gatos is? My $400.00 home bought in 1991 is 2.5 million...now.
I lived in Cupertino in 1978 and my rent was $250.00 a month for a studio, it is now over a thousand a month..but then again I was making $2.50 and hour plus tips back then.

Were you here in the summer, it is hot..I hate that now. I want to move but it is too much work..maybe rent it as a furnished home..ummmmmmm thinking.

Yes, I was in Los Gatos to see a spine specialist when I was there…

 

[Eaglewings]

Do you know where Los Gatos is? My $400.00 home bought in 1991 is 2.5 million...now.
I lived in Cupertino in 1978 and my rent was $250.00 a month for a studio, it is now over a thousand a month..but then again I was making $2.50 and hour plus tips back then.

Were you here in the summer, it is hot..I hate that now. I want to move but it is too much work..maybe rent it as a furnished home..ummmmmmm thinking.

Yes, I was in Los Gatos to see a spine specialist when I was there…

Where is your home now?

 

[defcon4]

Do you know where Los Gatos is? My $400.00 home bought in 1991 is 2.5 million...now.
I lived in Cupertino in 1978 and my rent was $250.00 a month for a studio, it is now over a thousand a month..but then again I was making $2.50 and hour plus tips back then.

Were you here in the summer, it is hot..I hate that now. I want to move but it is too much work..maybe rent it as a furnished home..ummmmmmm thinking.

Yes, I was in Los Gatos to see a spine specialist when I was there…

Where is your home now?

Where it's been for the last 35 years, Florida

 

[Eaglewings]

Do you know where Los Gatos is? My $400.00 home bought in 1991 is 2.5 million...now.
I lived in Cupertino in 1978 and my rent was $250.00 a month for a studio, it is now over a thousand a month..but then again I was making $2.50 and hour plus tips back then.

Were you here in the summer, it is hot..I hate that now. I want to move but it is too much work..maybe rent it as a furnished home..ummmmmmm thinking.

Yes, I was in Los Gatos to see a spine specialist when I was there…

Where is your home now?

Where it's been for the last 35 years, Florida

Are you very south or more to the north by Georgia ? Have you been in a tornado?

 

[defcon4]

Are you very south or more to the north by Georgia ? Have you been in a tornado?

No, fortunately no tornadoes. Although, nearby there was a touch down in the Sarasota area. I am mid-state. It is just too flat around here. I love California but I am not fond of the politics over there. I would move in a heartbeat if it weren't for that. I visited Napa Valley several times also.

 

[Eaglewings]

Are you very south or more to the north by Georgia ? Have you been in a tornado?

No, fortunately no tornadoes. Although, nearby there was a touch down in the Sarasota area. I am mid-state. It is just too flat around here. I love California but I am not fond of the politics over there. I would move in a heartbeat if it weren't for that. I visited Napa Valley several times also.

Watching to see what happens with the politics now that there are mega rich who don't want to pay the big taxes..It has been liberal for years but I think it is changing. Most of my friends are republicans , but not the Tea Party .

I hate the F*%#ing earthquakes..I was in the 1989 huge one and Los Gatos became a ghost town. My husband was actually the Mayor then and fought to build the buildings back historically .
Santa Cruz tore everything down..

I think when the next big one hits, the new rich will move away..haaa It is frightening..

I was just thinking today on my way home how fun it would be to just rent my home out furnished and live in different cities for a few months here and there.


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[Eaglewings]

I was in the hiking club at school in the 1970's we hiked the in Cascades of Washington..so Pretty

 

[Eaglewings]

 

[ChrisL]

Here is Plymouth Rock, where the pilgrims landed in 1620. Can you believe people come from all around to look at a rock though? Lol. Anyways, they had to fence it in because I guess people were breaking pieces off it as souvenirs or what not.

I don't really think it's "beautiful" but it is interesting.

 

[HenryBHough]

If getting here cost less I'd go to the cabin more often.....

 

[Luddly Neddite]

So awful to see what you saw with your pup Defcon..so sorry gezzzz that sucks.

Sorry I didn't reply, I didn't see this until now. How did it get to be Wednesday already.

Luddly : I will reply in the morning to your beautiful story., my brain is toasty tired..

Yes…he was running around having a good time. My front gate was open and I saw him inside the gate on the small field lying motionless. I thought he ran out and a car it him. He never went out to the road so I was kind of puzzled. I ran to him and he was limp. I picked him up and came back with him still unaware of the snake bite. I tried to nurture him. Then I noticed on his hind leg the snake bite. Two dark spots just above the toes. He came to it but his hind leg was totally paralyzed. Took him to the vet and next day the vet called that he died of heart failure. It was a very sad day for us. The next puppy I had was a pit bull. All black and over 110 lbs. and gentle but very good guard. He died with cancer. Now I have an American Staffordshire.

That is so sad..I hate when we have to say goodbye to our furry family members.

I had a Sheltie for 12 years and she got cancer of the uterus.. my neighbor across the street got cancer at 20.

This last summer I found cancer for the second time, and we found cancer in my beagle the same fucking week..she died a week later.
I couldn't stop crying because of our cancer, I knew the treatment that I would have to go through again..

My son was leaving for college and my house was way too quiet, my family encouraged me to get another dog..so I found my Eloise on the internet in a pound. I love her so much, she is a poodle mix. She has come so far since July, scared little thing. She hasn't left my side since I got her.

I am training her to be a service dog, so I can bring her with me everywhere... Sort of a therapy dog. I am going to bring her on a trip this next fall.

I took her with me shopping yesterday , it was like bringing a kid..lol She doesn't do well with crowed baskets..it wore me out.
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BTW..my dumb ass neighbor use to have his yard sprayed heavily every week...makes me wonder...

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Clara Lassie Eloise

Eaglewings

We had a neighbor once who owned a pesticide company and constantly sprayed. I am not exaggerating when I say that every single member of the family, including young children and pets had cancer. Every single one of them.

We had a small dog who almost died from the effects of their damn poison.

This is a real pet peeve of mine - I have never sprayed my home, inside or out but other people do so its all but impossible to avoid.

I had probably 8 owls and other raptors die from rodenticide. If they eat a poisoned rodent, there's no treatment and they die horrible deaths.

Wow....I get why you wouldn't want to leave...it is so beautiful.!!! Look at that lake/snow...and dog!

Taken from our deck, various times of year. The entire back of our house is glass so this is the first thing we see every morning. We own 6 lots, all lake front, so no one will ever build close to us. We have constant wildlife and get to watch the eagles in a nearby nest.

I love it here SO much. There is nothing that could make us leave this house.

I love to travel but its true - there's no place like home.


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The hot tub is just below the deck, cantilevered out over the hill. That's our dog, Czar, loving the snow.
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You have a beautiful home! Gorgeous!

Taken from our deck, various times of year. The entire back of our house is glass so this is the first thing we see every morning.

Wow!!! Muddly, that is beautiful! The tranquility... Are you being a biotch showing it? I don't envy people that I am close to it now.
Thanks for sharing...it is great and the idea of preserving it by isolating it with adjacent properties is a fantastic move!

I love to travel but its true - there's no place like home.

Nice "puppy!" I used to have one just like that. His name was Ringo...he died from snake bite.

Thanks very much. It truly is heaven on earth and there's never a day we're not grateful for it. We're on a peninsula so its lake from our front door and lake from the back too. Most of the houses are vacation homes and empty most of the year, as was our place until we retired. Its almost always quiet, as though there is no one else on the lake.

The house was originally a really crappy little 1 bedroom, 1 bath fishing shack but, after years of hard work, is now a big gorgeous home. We've sold our other properties - except for one rental and we have everything we want right here - our studios, books and the time and money to enjoy the time that's left to us.

There are minuses but nothing worth leaving. We have very spotty cell signal, can't stream videos and our internet signal comes and goes. If not for satellites, we wouldn't have anything but electricity!

Czar was a pound puppy. Shepherd/ collie mix and a really wonderful dog. He's not crazy about having two cat siblings and is getting grumpy in his old age. We both dread what we know is coming soon.

defcon4 Sorry to hear your dog was killed by a snake. When I lived outside Tucson, the rattlesnakes were always a concern. I used to have to move as many as 1-2 every single week and really watched our dogs. If you still live around venomous snakes, keep Benedryl on hand in case of another bite. Its not a cure, nothing like that, but it can buy you time to get him to the vet. But, if your vet doesn't have antivenin on hand, you could still be screwed.

I hope no one thinks I've shared these pics to be - uh, I don't know - uppity. If that were the case, I would have posted them a long time ago. Its a beautiful place and we do try to keep it wild and pristine. I wanted to share that.

Just tonight, watching TV and suddenly I see a possum at the back door. I like possums and rehabbed a few. They have the most amazing and vicious looking teeth but it turns out, if you're gentle with them, they can be handled without gloves. Some time, I'll dig out some old photos of a mother and babies I rehabbed. Even though I was handling her babies and moving them all, she was a sweetie, very docile.

You sound like a super smart businessman and are able to live in a awesome place because of your hard work..

Your lake house sounds so pretty and quiet, what a beautiful place to retire. And you built it the way that you want it.

My husband is a smart business man too, as well as his father who came over on a boat from Italy with nothing.

His father bought up some apartments, my husband bought a old victorian that we restored. and I found our house that we rebuilt , it was a 2 bedroom..now a 4 bedroom.

We live in Silicon Valley and our homes have 10x the price since we bought it, but the trade off is bad traffic, smog, and noise from the freeway since netflix tore everything down. Plus there is new rich here , major freaking plastic surgery snobs.
I don't want to sound like a snob, but my neighbor is getting $7000.00 + renting her home..
My husband and I have talked about renting and traveling but , I love the set up that we have here.

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Yeah, we just sold a house for several times what we paid and our lake house is worth a bundle.

If I were young and needed long term investment, I'd buy more lots around the lake.

Your wedding trip sounds wonderful!

And I LOVE your pupper pics.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Do you know where Los Gatos is? My $400.00 home bought in 1991 is 2.5 million...now.
I lived in Cupertino in 1978 and my rent was $250.00 a month for a studio, it is now over a thousand a month..but then again I was making $2.50 and hour plus tips back then.

Were you here in the summer, it is hot..I hate that now. I want to move but it is too much work..maybe rent it as a furnished home..ummmmmmm thinking.

Yes, I was in Los Gatos to see a spine specialist when I was there…

Where is your home now?

Where it's been for the last 35 years, Florida

Are you very south or more to the north by Georgia ? Have you been in a tornado?

We're smack in tornado alley country. The lake house is built for tornadoes though.

A few years ago, our neighbor called us in Paris to tell us we'd been hit. Very strange damage, like the stuff you always hear about. Like, we have a detached building where our "gym" is. Weightlifting and exercise equipment. Stuff like that. Its really close to the house and the deck runs along between the two.

There were hanging plants and hummer feeders hanging along the deck which our house sitter was taking care of. They were untouched but quite a few of the copper tiles on the roof of the weight room were gone. We found all of them and had them put back on the building.

And, the cover of the hot tub was off and put through the screen of the porch but nothing else was harmed. Weird.

Also, a couple of years back, I saw a tornado touch down across the lake and come toward us. You can't imagine how fast you can cram cats, dogs and stuff into a safe room but it lifted and went right over us. We're on a peninsula so there's lake in front of the house too. The trees were damaged in both front and back but the house, garage and weight room weren't touched. Very lucky.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Are you very south or more to the north by Georgia ? Have you been in a tornado?

No, fortunately no tornadoes. Although, nearby there was a touch down in the Sarasota area. I am mid-state. It is just too flat around here. I love California but I am not fond of the politics over there. I would move in a heartbeat if it weren't for that. I visited Napa Valley several times also.

Watching to see what happens with the politics now that there are mega rich who don't want to pay the big taxes..It has been liberal for years but I think it is changing. Most of my friends are republicans , but not the Tea Party .

I hate the F*%#ing earthquakes..I was in the 1989 huge one and Los Gatos became a ghost town. My husband was actually the Mayor then and fought to build the buildings back historically .
Santa Cruz tore everything down..

I think when the next big one hits, the new rich will move away..haaa It is frightening..

I was just thinking today on my way home how fun it would be to just rent my home out furnished and live in different cities for a few months here and there.


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We've been thinking the same thing. If a Repub gets in, taxes on the working poor will go sky high while the 1% will get their taxes slashed even more. Or at least, that's what the candidates have said.

We love Belgium and France and we have friends in both Paris and Brussels. If we didn't have this wonderful house, we would very likely move -

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Here is Plymouth Rock, where the pilgrims landed in 1620. Can you believe people come from all around to look at a rock though? Lol. Anyways, they had to fence it in because I guess people were breaking pieces off it as souvenirs or what not.

I don't really think it's "beautiful" but it is interesting.

Have you been to the Manneken Pis in Brussels? Its beautiful but much smaller than one would expect.

 

[ChrisL]

Here is Plymouth Rock, where the pilgrims landed in 1620. Can you believe people come from all around to look at a rock though? Lol. Anyways, they had to fence it in because I guess people were breaking pieces off it as souvenirs or what not.

I don't really think it's "beautiful" but it is interesting.

Have you been to the Manneken Pis in Brussels? Its beautiful but much smaller than one would expect.

No, unfortunately but would love to visit some day.

 

[Abishai100]

Home and Range

Here are pictures of two places I really appreciate:

1. Home (mom, sister, and niece)
2. Quebec (a very under-rated tourist destination)