Nice day

[cornerofmadness]

Hit the farmers' market (a tad late) and I got some beautiful Indigo Rose tomatoes (picture to follow) which are bred to increase healthy flavonoids (bred not GMO). They are so pretty. I'm saving seeds. wish me luck. I got a pint of blackberries that are definitely wild (i.e. hard bits here and there, tart). I got fudge (bad CoM)

I picked up a pizza from a place I've been wanting to since I saw it written up last year. Avalanche Pizza I got the Godzilla. (I DID notice their awards are a decade old. I'll let you know. I haven't eaten it yet.

Also how to know you live RURAL. While at the fancy Krogers (as opposed to MY Krogers) the manager comes over the speaker to tell us they got lambs and goats from the 4 H club at the county faire and will have them butchered up in a day or two...

I went to visit some of the houses. Two I turned around before I got there because my GPS was taking me off the paved road. Nope. I'll wait on a realtor to be sure I'm even in the right spot (since my GPS made me turn around and then get right back on the way I was going...UM??) two my GPS said didn't exist.

So I found this one. It was a cute little white house in Albany. Here have a look:
Downtown (HA!) Albany

Now click the cut to see

Okay here's the house and its neighbor.



Not too hideous until you realize that just north of the yellow house is a construction turn around/resting spot for equipment.

Then here's the right hand neighbor.

Oh boy a Laundromat. Nothing like having the freaks in my yard

And my view...



WHY is there a DISH? Is that mine? Is there someone in that shack??

I wipe the tears of frustration from my face and push on.

I go and find the Stone front house It's kinda cute and hey it's right next door to Albany's tiny-assed library.



See? Cute.



and across the street.

abandon house



maybe abandoned? not sure


and my side yard



abandoned nursing home. Sweet


T_T

then I went looking for this one and my GPS said its number doesn't exist. must find this one (I like the purple rooms...save me) I LOVED the street it was one. Real homes. Not shit. And I got the phone number of a new housing development going up. They're probably out of my range but...

my tomatoes -

and you HAVE to see this. I don't even like puppets but this is fantastic. Thanks to ES for pointing it out.

"Bruno Mars- Old & Crazy ft. Esperanza Spalding(Bonus track)" (Watch on YouTube)

declutter day 106 item tossed -2 brass candle holders why kept- I also collect brass why tossed - I have nicer ones

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Ooo, how fascinating with the "judicious use of the framing tool" the realtors used. Numerous times, it appears. And I really like the house that doesn't actually exist.

I WANT TOMATO SEEDS. Those look amazing, more like apples than tomatoes.

Wolverine the musical is hysterical.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

they're GOOD at it.

I like that house too.

isn't it? dying Wolverine

I thought they were plums

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Well, they want the places to sell!

Those zomatoes do look more like plums, now that you mention it.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes they do

and for good reason. they were bred to enhance the same plant chemicals that make plums purple

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Mmm, tasty.

Except I'm not fond of plums.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I love plums

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yes, I remember you being horrified at me not liking plums.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

plums are the best

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Ugh.

I just finished off one of my two mangoes.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I have mango fruit popsicles

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I actually considered making ice pops out of my mangoes.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

being lazy and at the price of mangos it was easier to buy them

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

:D

[rahirah]

Even with the crappy surroundings, that stone front house is cute...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it is cute.

and the one I couldn't find? I went right past it occurring to google earth

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

I like the purple-room house. It's not depressing like so many of the others you've posted, and the property looks rural but in a private way, not a crummy way. The other houses--or more specifically, their surroundings--OMG. This is why you never, ever buy property sight unseen. Talk about depressing. The views are so...third-world.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Yes that's it exactly. I no longer even want to ask the realtor to see the other houses (which is why I drove out there).

The purple house has two neighbors and then a church and a cemetery. I liked it out there.

Wonders if I could just buy everything around the stone house and knock it the hell down.

[havocmangawip.livejournal.com]

Go get those NAMED and adorable animals... you at least KNOW they didn't go to auction to a factory thing... (I know... sad but true... but oh man, if a creature has to go to its maker for food, that is the WAY to go... specialty butchers know how to "get them" so they didn't even see it coming.)

I will look later at the shady realtors... I sure hope our people aren't doing that on the rentals, but there isn't MUCH to hide. (I MISS the hell out of the top flat in the Queen Ann!)

As for the undesirable neighbors? I'm sure someone knows someone who is prone to pyrotechnics. The owners would likely THANK their good fortune. *I so never said that. ;)*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Honestly I'm not a vegetarian and the animals weren't named and am kinda thinking of going back for them in the other way and it supports our local farmers.

There's a thing in selling that once you are THERE you almost feel obligated to buy so if they hide the lousy surroundings and you're there...

Trust me burning a few of those places down....