Beach Runner's House

[Mermaid]

This house has too much of who we are (our shared love of our love of NOLA which is where we met and fell in love) to sell. It's really a special house.

He loves his job. He loves the challenges and how much cutting-edge technology he is involved in. He never wants to retire.

You're probably right, though. Thanks for caring.

Given the sentimental mindset you have attached to your house, BR, thank goodness you are living in an imitation NO, not the real thing! It would have been doubly difficult for you to have lost your house had you been living in NO. (Though I have no doubt you'd have made short work of any looters foolhardy enough to have approached! Bam! )

 

[Beach Runner]

Given the sentimental mindset you have attached to your house, BR, thank goodness you are living in an imitation NO, not the real thing! It would have been doubly difficult for you to have lost your house had you been living in NO. (Though I have no doubt you'd have made short work of any looters foolhardy enough to have approached! Bam! )

Yeah, what has happened in NOLA just breaks my heart. If they rebuild without preserving the architectural styles, it will be an immense tragedy, in my opinion.

I've been teased about being Ma Kettle. Once a friend arrived unexpectedly at night. I went out on the top gallery with a shotgun and said, "I have a gun, and I know how to use it." My friend said, "It's me, Patsy. Don't shoot!" My husband was out of town. I was a bit scared. It was not long after the home invasion.

 

[Miss Kitty]

This thread needs to be titled...Beach Runner's GUN! Girl, you are scaring the doo doo out of me! Put down the gun and find a real estate agent.

 

[RiverOtter]

RO is waxing philosophicallly again!

That's what I do

 

[Beach Runner]

This thread needs to be titled...Beach Runner's GUN! Girl, you are scaring the doo doo out of me! Put down the gun and find a real estate agent.

Honey, you'd have a gun, too, if you had ever been upstairs with your eight-year-old daughter in a deep sleep, your husband was in Japan, you were jolted awake with burglars downstairs, had no way to contact the outside world because the phone lines were cut by the burglars, and had the choice of jumping off the upper gallery (Louisiana for upstairs porch) or running down the stairs and hoping they didn't rape and/or kill you as you ran by, and BTW it took the cops 20 minutes to get to you when the house is two miles from the main police station.

So now I'm prepared. I always have a gun and a cell phone nearby.

 

[Smiling JOe]

All you need is two guard dogs like mine. You can then rest easy at night, without shotguns and fear.

 

[Beach Runner]

All you need is two guard dogs like mine. You can then rest easy at night, without shotguns and fear.

Yeah, we tried that. We bought a Weimaraner. Most people were scared of her, so she'd get aggressive. But the burglar type (not scared) would scare her and she'd hide in the garage. Poor baby! Had to put her down in January at Auburn Univ. Vet School due to bacterial endocarditis. :'(

The poodle is a good guard dog. Her bark has a more bass sound than the Weim's, so it scares people. But she stays indoors to be company for me and because we signed a contract from the breeder imposing a fine and possible confiscation if we keep her outdoors.

 

[whiteyfunn]

Okay BR....here's what you do. Pull out everything you hold dear and sentimental in your house and replace with nice quality replacements. Then get the heck out of there honey. Life is too short to worry about things. No one gets a prize in Heaven for what they have accumulted on Earth. You don't have to give up "things" that bring you pleasure to simplify, but just make sure you are not a prisoner of material things. Get back down here and look at the sunset...

Amen.

And, once you get rid of it you'll never remember you even had it. Think only in the present and near future!

 

[Smiling JOe]

Yeah, we tried that. We bought a Weimaraner. Most people were scared of her, so she'd get aggressive. But the burglar type (not scared) would scare her and she'd hide in the garage. Poor baby! Had to put her down in January at Auburn Univ. Vet School due to bacterial endocarditis. :'(

The poodle is a good guard dog. Her bark has a more bass sound than the Weim's, so it scares people. But she stays indoors to be company for me and because we signed a contract from the breeder imposing a fine and possible confiscation if we keep her outdoors.

Who said anything about outdoor dogs? Both of my boys stay inside. A burglar would be crazy to break into my house.

 

[Jdarg]

Friends of my parents had a great idea- they put one of the giant paper doll cutouts of people in their foyer- theirs was Michael Jordan. If you tried to peer through the stained or textured glass around the front door, all you saw was this HUGE guy standing there!