tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post6392961121068623273..comments2023-10-25T05:30:54.507-04:00Comments on Oh Get A Grip!: A Tale of Three HomesAshe Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390519279886657608noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-16798971767812198662018-09-09T20:03:26.357-04:002018-09-09T20:03:26.357-04:00Your descriptions of the place are very evocative....Your descriptions of the place are very evocative. The land as the body of the Goddess seems to be a theme in many of your stories. If/when you have to sell the cabin, maybe you could sell it to someone you know who wouldn't mind letting you visit from time to time.Jean Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805088081675965859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-77430337607023972952018-09-09T01:26:25.110-04:002018-09-09T01:26:25.110-04:00Ah, this reminds me of how hostile the New England...Ah, this reminds me of how hostile the New England environment can be. <br /><br />We spent scads of money, time and stress trying to maintain our 200 year old place in the Pioneer Valley.Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-55239987842566804352018-09-05T10:39:09.820-04:002018-09-05T10:39:09.820-04:00Multiple reasons. Mostly because I just can't ...Multiple reasons. Mostly because I just can't get there much these days. It's a five-hour drive, and the person I've always gone there with has a nasty case of Lyme disease that impairs mobility and makes riding in a car any distance unbearable. That may eventually clear up, although we're in month ten now. But I'm losing hope that things will ever be the way they were. <br /><br />I've only been there once this summer, while my son and daughter-in-law and granddaughter were there, and found that the pipes had frozen during the winter even though the oil company is supposed to keep the cabin supplied with fuel. They didn't. We "roughed" it, carrying buckets of water up from the river so we could flush the toilet. I'm not sure whether all the damage has been fixed yet; the bill from the plumber hasn't come, but I've been told that the first floor is okay now, at least.<br /><br />That particular problem can be dealt with. But after 25 years or so with no disastrous flooding from the river, we did get flooded during Hurricane Irene, and again, not as badly, in a storm last December. Things have been fixed up perfectly well now, at considerable expense. It's possible that I can't sell the house at all now with the history of flooding, but someone might buy the land and do a bit of terraforming to make a higher base for a house. <br /><br />I wouldn't move there permanently anyway, with my family ties and responsibilities here. It tears me up to think of selling it, and I'm not going to get serious about it until the sale of my father's house goes through. One dose of house-seling at a time is all I can take. Sacchi Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10801164916418570059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-66708056789477260872018-09-05T10:21:09.972-04:002018-09-05T10:21:09.972-04:00I've taken photos of the secluded waterfall I ...I've taken photos of the secluded waterfall I describe--more of a minor cascade--but somehow the pictures don't do it justice. I guess you have to be there. Sacchi Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10801164916418570059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-62064478870821147412018-09-05T07:43:28.301-04:002018-09-05T07:43:28.301-04:00I myself have found some waterfall topography to b...I myself have found some waterfall topography to be <i>very</i> evocative. (:v>Jeremy Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01980177431018869829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-67586541599681961512018-09-04T07:28:18.805-04:002018-09-04T07:28:18.805-04:00Such gorgeous pictures you've painted with you...Such gorgeous pictures you've painted with your words!<br /><br />Why are you getting rid of the cabin? It seems perhaps to be your true home.Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.com