Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul (Post 9190790)

Third round? Yuck. I went 3 rounds when I sold my place in Claremont. I think the "buyers' were still looking and just wanted to lock in my place in case they didn't find another. They'd write a check but it was refundable so they had nothing to lose. Just a waste of my time and patience.

When we sold our house in San Dimas my wife had inherited it. Escrow wanted the death certificate of her stepfather. And a copy of the will.(sigh) :rolleyes:
The :censored: guy has been dead for 10 years. She’s owned it for 10 years. Paid the taxes for 10 years. It’s in her name. Are you :censored: kidding me? :mad:

Nope. They need the paperwork or the deal falls through. What a bunch of :bs:
She always makes fun of me for using my old filing cabinet when I can just file things on the computer. She calls me a dinosaur and things like that. But when she looked for the documents. Guess what? They weren’t there. Everything else was but not them.

So. This old dinosaur went to his outdated obsolete dusty file cabinet and mercy me what did I find. That’s right. Somebody with their old antiquated ways just saved the day. :)

That’s why I hate escrow. When she sent the documents they said that they didn’t need them after all. :blah: :dohh:
Thank you sir may I have another.

Let me know if you camp out. I'll bring the marshmallows and weenies... and a couple shotguns. We can tell scary stories. :lol:

Originally Posted by Steeveedee (Post 9190817)

Shotguns would be the firearm of choice; load them up with rock salt. There's a stove but no fridge or anything else. No internet, but if I have to stay there, I'd order it up. It is move-in ready. Just make sure those hot dogs are fresh. :D

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul (Post 9191027)

The trouble with a shotgun is that you might have to do some drywall work again.

3 days old is still fresh. Right?

Originally Posted by Steeveedee (Post 9191118)

Maybe save the old hot dogs and feed them to the squatters...and them lock them out. :D

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul (Post 9191208)

They'd probably just drop a deuce on your front porch.

Originally Posted by tutone (Post 9191239)

Got my cuts made on my "blown over oak tree" 54 feet of 22" plus logs.
3-12s a 10 and an 8. It knocked over another big red oak 22" plus. Got a 10 and an 8 out of it. We are gonna pull em out with a good size tractor if it will ever stop raining. Drove a lot of wedges and it don't take near as long to give out handling a saw as it used to.

Originally Posted by LS short box (Post 9191306)

Spent 4 hours block sanding the doors and trunk lid of a 37 Packard convertible. First skim coat. Thursday we spray "poly" filler and more more block sanding.

Originally Posted by special-K (Post 9191374)

I never thought of how there'd be woods from around the world coming here as pallets. I am all about the reuse/salvage thing these days. I keep small pieces of the more interesting lumber to make smaller things from. Heck, I even make special mouldings out of scrap framing limber, just crappy white pine. I'll get a picture of where I dug this wood out from. The shelf itself was cut off a 16' length of window sill stock, the piece between the brackets was a primed (and weathered) piece of clear Douglas Fir true 5/4" with a beveled rip for something exterior, and the brackets came from my scrap stash, 3/4" x 3" clear cedar left over from something. No money what so ever into materials and it's all good stuff. I used the cedar for being clear and softer for ease of shaping, being so small. We figured 23"L x 4"W would do it. The sink is a tiny roundy cool porcelain cast iron wall-hanger like you'd see in a service station bathroom. She didn't want people setting things on the back ledge (for some reason). I'll get a pictures once painted and hung. Glad you liked it

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul (Post 9191659)

Some of you may remember my last leather couch. Duke didn't care for it.

Originally Posted by special-K (Post 9191625)

This is a part of the kitchen counter I built for her 5 or more years ago. It's from a white oak that was 250 years old when cut and milled. It came from a 250 year old building. so the tree started growing 500 years ago

Originally Posted by tutone (Post 9191615)

Glad nobody was hurt. That is a "Mossy Oak"