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[cornerofmadness]

Stop on over to see the Guest blogger on Jana's blog

For some reason I had to pee every hour last night making me climb up and down two flights of steps. This is going to be a fun week. Shoot me.

Dad and I had to file down some rust spots/paint chips on my car and repaint them. Living on a dirt road is brutal on a car.


Grilled Eggplant with garlic mint sauce

1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic
Salt and pepper
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1/4 teaspoon red chili flakes
4 Asian eggplants, halved lengthwise
Vegetable oil
Chopped fresh mint or cilantro leaves

Make a paste by smashing the garlic with a little salt and add to a small bowl. Whisk in the vinegar, soy, sesame oil, and red chili flakes.

Heat grill to high. Brush eggplant with oil and season with salt and pepper. Grill until slightly charred and just cooked through. Slice each half into 1/2-inch slices and place on a platter. Drizzle with the vinegar mixture and sprinkle with mint or cilantro.



This recipe is good for diabetics and tasty. It can roasted in the oven too.


I’m seriously considering this house It has two problems. One, it will need french drains in the back of the house if they aren't there. But more importanly the roof is bad and it's NOT an easy fix. The dormers are recessed and make a ledge to hold snow and water. The dormers have to be removed and replaced with more roof or skylights etc. Still it's a nice place.

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I do like Asian eggplant. Hmmm.

That's a very neat house.

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

I love that house! The only problem I see is that everyone will want to come visit and stay with you (and never leave!)

How much farther is it from your job?

I don't see any long term or regular moisture problems... The floors look great, and it really is very well maintained. It looks good to go to me. I say, if you can afford to, jump on it!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

That's true.

It's a nice house but there are problems. Substandard electrical (notice all the outlets are in the baseboards)

the roof is half gone. there is water damage in the garage which tells me all the water runs downhill right into it. the front yard spends significant amount of time under water (saw that on google earth), the dormers must be removed and that dock is illegal.

it's@ 27 miles from work and the same from where I'd rather be. also in the flood plain.

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

yikes... no, I didn't notice any of that. the dormers do look odd and problematic, but I didn't see any signs of water. Have you visited it in person or felt out how negotiable they are on price? it's just such a cool old house... but houses need to be where you need them as much as how you need them, so...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

nope haven't visited. To be honest why this house is so cheap is Pomeroy is a dying city and I'm very reluctant to go there. So is Middleport (the only 2 towns with real houses in my price range instead of double wides).

the garage and in front of it are wet. I can see the hydrology of the place, the back runs directly into the house. Without some form of drainage the water by default must run into it (look at the cement in the basement you can see the patterns it's left, either that or someone glued something to it and ripped it up). You can't tell that the dock is illegal until you get to google earth where you can see you have to hop a guardrail to get to it.

and that big hump in the front has to be built up to get the septic tank in (we looked at all the houses on Google. they all have it). That tells me the yard is then under water so badly you can't put it in otherwise.

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

oh crap, it's in one of the dying cities :(
I didn't know that part... that would really suck and you don't want to get stuck. and if the water gets up that much, you'll have all kinds of problems with it. no wonder it's so cheap. I saw the price and fell in love, but it was "bar lighting" love ;)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah. Pomeroy is trying to hold on but it lost its port city relevance back when my parents were kids. I would need to really evaluate it.

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

Gas heat is a good thing. The drainage issues, not so much. And if that house has an illegal dock, that tells me (a) code enforcement is lax and (b) most of your neighbors will have crappy, illegal docks and outbuildings because they can. Too bad about the location, because the house itself looks dreamy.

I should do more with eggplant. Mushrooms and tofu, too. Real meat protein is getting so expensive these days, Soylent is starting to look like a good idea, even with that (shudder) name.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

This house has enough pluses for me to really consider it even knowing I have to rip up the freaking roof.

However, before I get too excited I NEED to go to Rutland, Middleport and Pomeroy. I've lived here 8 years and I've never been there. I've heard little good. The pluses of it are that it's dead set between my friends in Athens and my job. BUT I have no idea how far a good grocery store is etc etc. There is one overpriced restaurant in Pomeroy that's vaguely tex-mex. It advertises all the time on TV but it's way more $$$ than I expected for the area. There is a steamwheeler fest coming up in Sept. I should go.

It would be a nice house to meditate on the river. Yeah given there is NO break in the guard rail I think someone built that on the sly (on Google Earth I also saw something in the woods behind it that looks supiciously like a still). Neighbors don't care around here. I don't want that dock though. It's a killer.

It's a tasty recipe. Yeah not only is meat $$$ the factory farmed stuff has no taste.

[makd.livejournal.com]

1. Glad you are feeling much better. \o/

2. Thanks for the recipe - will try it this week. *hug*

3. House is lovely, but from what you've said, you really do need to do a lot of research on the house's adherence to building/safety codes, and research on previous flood damage to the area.

4. God, but house is lovely. With whatever you find out from your research....would the owners take $15,000 less in consideration of all the fix-up and the risk? :-)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks.

I think it's pretty tasty that recipe

It is a lovely house. I am going to look into the town first and then look into it more. I would definitely have to offer substantially less to do that roof repair.