Not even dark yet, and the morons around the ‘Hood are setting off their bang-bangs. This will go on into the night, probably till about 1 a.m. What fine patriotic fun, hm?
My alley wall is festooned with cat’s-claw vines, wonderful fodder for fireworks-inspired spectacles. So, no matter how tired I happen to feel (and lemme tellya: this damn covid bug really wrings you out!!), I have to stay awake and keep an eye on the shrubbery, so as to call the fire dept if a fire gets started out there.
Not a big order, though: even if by some miracle the human could sleep through this evening’s series of explosions, Ruby is terrorized by the racket. Even safely ensconced on the bed, she cowers and cringes and flinches with each crashing BAM! So in addition to keeping alert to the flammable shrubbery, the human has to try to quiet and soothe a terrified little dog.
Some holiday!
You think I exaggerate? Every year someone loses their house to fireworks here. Never fails.
My son is too depressed to get together this evening. That notwithstanding, I do hope some of his friends managed to lure him out. But do not know and will not know until tomorrow.
wait wait…i take that back! He just emailed from his house. Probably just as well…one doesn’t want to be too far from the flammable homestead with all the amateur fireworks shenanigans going on.
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Blew away part of the afternoon ogling real estate ads. Looking at houses over on the east side of Central Avenue, which would be out of the purview of Tony’s social service empire.
Whaddaya think of this shack?
I believe this is in the general neighborhood of where SDXB and his former wife Donna lived. The other day I happened to drive through that area and realized it’s pretty nice. Well kept, green, pleasantly middle-class.
LOOK at the price!!!!! {gasp}
And yet…. and yet, I could probably get something similar for my house. The house on State would no doubt go for more, but not enough so to bankrupt me.
It has no pool — which some might say is a good thing. It also has no backyard. They apparently have enlarged the house to such an extent that it occupies most of the lot. Is that even legal???
Still…it’s only 1621 square feet. And mine is 1628. So it’s the same size as my shack.
And there’s NOOOO Romanian Landlord within a hundred yards of the damn place!
On the other side of the canal, east of State and north of Orangewood, there’s this…
It’s only (“only”!!!!) $580,000. Can’t say I’m real impressed with it, but since I can probably get around 500 grand for my house, it would be a little more do-able. Has a pool, for what that’s worth…more like a puddle, actually. Living room effectively clones M’jito’s house.
Here’s one on Desert Park, east of 7th Street… A little bit further north. But I don’t think I can afford the price: Looks like they’re stilll renovating it. Nice little back porch, plenty of room for Ruby to run around, and no pool! Hmmmm….
And here’s one on Nicolet — the very street where XDXB and his former wife used to live. Look at the price! and it’s TINY: 2 beds, 2 baths! And get this: a price INCREASE of 75 grand…for THAT?????<
This one is a little less laughable…until you notice that they’re asking something north of 800 grand!
Geez! Aint real estate bizarre? I should get a license and go to work with my coreligionist…just for the laughs!
The *only* reason that I can think of, to subject myself to living in the temperatures you live in, would be to have a pool 😀
And even then, it’s not enough of a draw – I will stay in my foggy central coast Californian house with no pool, but also no a/c and no *need* for it!
{sigh} I did love the California fog! Sure do miss it…
My mother’s relatives lived in Berkeley, and after we came back to the States, my father shipped out of Rodeo while he worked for Standard Oil. We lived in San Francisco, in that high-rise development just past Stonestown, which is called Parkmerced. I really did love that place.
When my father moved over to Union Oil, he shipped out of Southern California, so we moved to Long Beach…not my choice of places to retire, that’s for sure! 😮 To my mind, if you could afford it the place to live would be along the coast south of UC Santa Cruz down to about Santa Barbara.