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Living it up - !
Magwang
Veteran
I just started a great new job, and bought this house :
Talk about changes.
**oops, should have posted to the Lounge - my bad. Freddie plz move this for me thx. ***
Talk about changes.
**oops, should have posted to the Lounge - my bad. Freddie plz move this for me thx. ***
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Right - !we're all moving in!!
and Brigid you can't answer this one...
I love your house. It's in a very similar style to ours. What is it, about 150 years old? I've probably seen it, too, at some point in my travels. lol! If not that specific one, many like it. Nice new roof, too. Man, are you ever going to have a blast doing the interior decorating. How totally fun! Ooohhh, I wish I was your interior designer! I love the way the late afternoon sun hits the porches. And I bet you've got some lovely old trees around it. Congratulations, Magwang! On the new job and the new house. I hope you have many, many years of great joy and peace there.
I can't wait to hear how high your heating bill is!!!!!
-bf
If there's a wood stove or a propane heater it won't be a problem. We have both and my folks didn't even need to be evacuated during the colossal ice storm a few years back. They were one of the first to lose their power and one of the last to get it back but they did okay. Our water pump is electrical so they didn't even have water. But there was plenty of ice...
OK, Debbie Downer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Simcoe
Lake Simcoe is a lake in southern Ontario, Canada, the fourth largest lake in the province. At the time of the first European contact in the 17th century the lake was called Ouentironk ("Beautiful Water") by the Huron natives. It was very soon after known as Lake Toronto, an Iroquioan term. 'Toronto' was in reference to the several Huron fish weirs located in the lake, and meant 'place where trees stand in the water'. Early French traders also referred to it by its French translation, i.e. Lac aux Claies, the "lake of weirs".
It was renamed by John Graves Simcoe, the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada in the late 18th century for his father. The name 'Toronto' found its way to the current City via its use in the name the 'Toronto Passage', a portage running between Lake Ontario and Georgian Bay, that passed through 'Lake Toronto'; which in turn was used as the name for an early French fort located at the foot of the Toronto passage, on Lake Ontario.
yes it has a wood stove, which you can un at night. with the automatic thermostat, you can save energy. but it is oil heat :skeptical (no gas line yet)
so we're packing and moving...once again. impermanence in action...
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I love the way in which the immigrants rename everything so that there are multiple maps of each reagion. For a week of our stay, we were at a house just outside Minden on a lake called Big Bob - a real gift to us, as Blackadder fans!
I love to decorate other ppls houses........Just can't do my own......
Our house on Cape Cod had oil heat........I'd never had oil heat before.....It was great.
Say Nothing.
Walk away.