You’ve got thisb
(written on November 10th from notes taken previously)
Started the morning at Mama’s place and then headed back to the Sienna to give it a look again with the owner present.
Turned out the owner was actually a member of the same congregation as my mom, and of course, loves my mom. 😊
The van, on the other hand, wasn’t so much to love. 😅 It made some expensive-sounding sounds on startup that I just… didn’t want to deal with, so I politely declined making an offer and headed over to storage shed in the lower field to both and downsize the contents of my van and also the contents of my shed.
I noticed a lovely not-so-little red wasp nest (in fact, a very large one, if I’m remembering correctly, so I grabbed my two cans of brake cleaner (don’t think I’ve ever done that before, but the nest was so big that… 😅), I crossed my fingers, hoping I wouldn’t get attacked during my efforts, sprayed the brake cleaner cans to make sure I knew exactly where the streams were going to go, and let her rip. 😅
😅😅😅
Gratefully, I managed to get the chemical streams close enough on target that I was able to take care of the wasp issue relatively quickly without repercussions. 🙏🎉🙏
Those red wasps can be aggressive. 😅
After spending a bit of time down at my shed, I headed over to meet my mom at the townhome I had found on marketplace and that we had arranged to go look at today. The landlords were an older couple, I would guess late ’60s or early ’70s, and though they had something like 20 applicants, after we were done visiting, they said they wanted my mom and Thomas as the tenants.
This was easily the best place we found so far, and a lot cheaper than anything of comparable size in the area. My mom told them that she would be in touch with them by the morning to let them know if we were going to choose the place.
That was a little concerning for me, as I was considering very strongly buying a house for them and then only charging them the rent they would pay for another place and covering the balance of the mortgage myself. That way, they could be confident they wouldn’t ever have to leave like they’ve had to leave the previous two places.
Moving… bites.
After looking at the townhome, I headed over and hung out with Miguel for a bit and then went to look at a house in Pea Ridge on Todd Circle. For whatever reason, I feel a little drawn to the house, but we’ll see.
Back on Haven Hill, I spent some time getting things cleaned up and organized down in the lower field, before heading back to the farmhouse, talking to Thomas for a bit, veging out a little, and calling it a night.
Lift the world.
Bring it on.
~ stephen
