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Subject: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: katlaughing Date: 23 Sep 10 - 12:28 PM We've read all about the P-Vine, the hundreds of plantings of rhodies and all, the wild critters making friends, and the fun Bobert has playing in the dirt, now you can, too...P-Vine wants to live closer to her kids and grandbabies, so their farm is on the market. Never hurts to pass the word along, esp. if it helps a fellow Mudcatter, so take a gander and "psssttt, pass it on, please?!" Bobert's Farm...looks like a great place for a Mudcat Retirement Home! Good luck, Bobert & P-Vine! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Ebbie Date: 23 Sep 10 - 12:30 PM 404 Forbidden, kat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Jack Campin Date: 23 Sep 10 - 12:35 PM This one works: http://www.cbmove.com/Property/propertydetails.aspx?mlsnumber=pa7441970 Does it still come with nutcase trigger-happy neighbours? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: katlaughing Date: 23 Sep 10 - 12:43 PM Hmmm, Ebbie, I dunno...both work for me. Thanks, Jack. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: GUEST,bankley Date: 23 Sep 10 - 12:53 PM hell, and I thought he lived in a tarpaper trailer |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: frogprince Date: 23 Sep 10 - 01:01 PM It appears from that right-hand picture that the outhouse is in good condition. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Charmion Date: 23 Sep 10 - 01:06 PM Who knew the house of my dreams was in Page County, Virginia? Drat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: gnu Date: 23 Sep 10 - 01:16 PM BEAUTIFUL! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: bobad Date: 23 Sep 10 - 01:25 PM I see the Bobster has himself a smokehouse - does the DEA know? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Beer Date: 23 Sep 10 - 01:36 PM Wow! Wonderful spot and good luck. ad. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bill D Date: 23 Sep 10 - 01:56 PM Google Earth and Google maps sure don't make it clear which place it is. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Sep 10 - 02:29 PM Nice! That little red-roofed outhouse is a real beauty too. If'n I was gonna live in Virginny, I'd be real interested. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: gnu Date: 23 Sep 10 - 02:48 PM I just checked my Lotto 6/49 ticket for last night. Maybe call you on Saturday, Bobert, after the Lotto Max draw. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Art Thieme Date: 23 Sep 10 - 02:57 PM Swap it for one o' those royal residences someone said were for sale. Art |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: wysiwyg Date: 23 Sep 10 - 03:06 PM Maybe they need a BLOG. :~) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Amos Date: 23 Sep 10 - 03:16 PM Bobert: How much snow you get in the winter, man? A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Amos Date: 23 Sep 10 - 04:13 PM Really, though, Bobert, that is one beautiful spread you got out there. Mebbe you should keep it and buy the P-vine a Cessna. You got enough room for a landing strip. Put pink strobe runway lights on the sucker, and she'll go for it!! Honest!! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Sep 10 - 05:05 PM I'm disillusioned! I thought Bobert lived in a ramshackle hillbilly shack that was half falling down, with feral pigs roaming the uncut trash-strewn lawn, and a still out back at the edge of the woods. A real man of the people. Instead I find he is livin' like Boss Hog in a mansion on the hill!!! Oh, the shame of it all. ;-D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 23 Sep 10 - 05:05 PM Thank's, kat, fir the assist... Snow??? Usually about 4 to 5 snows a winter with the average bein' around 8 inches... Last winter??? Don't ask... BTW, Amos, the P-Vine and flyin' don't mix... When we first met I took her up in a Cesna and had to bring the 'ol gal right back down... She freeked!!! Smoke house ain't a smoke house no more... I wired it up and have extra refrig and freezer out there... BTW, not one privy on the entire property... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Sep 10 - 05:09 PM What??? Not ONE?????? How the hell do you expect to make a sale then? What if someone needs to "use the facilities"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: PoppaGator Date: 23 Sep 10 - 05:29 PM That real-estate listing should reveal the acreage. I visited once (sometime in '06, while on Katrina evacucation) and was pretty impressed at the size of the spread; they seemed to own the whole top of a mountain. Well, a hill, anyway. Bobert was still in the midst of a lot of interior renovation at the time. Now that the place is all fixed up (I assume), too bad they feel the need to leave. The location is pretty remote, though, so I can understand P-Vine's concerns. I thought I was going to exit the interstate at Luray and find my way to the homestead in 15-20 minutes, but NO! By the time I finally arrived, I was already nervous about getting back on the road (from exile in New Jersey to visit and start work on my damaged home in New Orleans), and didn't enjoy the visit as much as I should have. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Amos Date: 23 Sep 10 - 05:35 PM There are two full baths, no privies. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: gnu Date: 23 Sep 10 - 05:37 PM Ya gotta have an outhouse. What if the power is out and the well pump handle is froze shut? At least tell me you have a port-a-potty for the P-Vine??? I mean, I know you are a bear of a man, >;-), but a lady shouldn't have to bare it like a bear. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Ed T Date: 23 Sep 10 - 05:38 PM Is the smoke house really a grow op? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 23 Sep 10 - 05:47 PM Grandbabies? Sounds like a young family. What are you planning to do if they move, Bobert? "The average American family moves every five years. This equals about 16 times throughout the average lifetime. On average, each move will take approximately 50 boxes, or 800 boxes throughout a lifetime. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 37.1 million people moved in 2009." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: gnu Date: 23 Sep 10 - 06:00 PM It certainly could be a grow op opportunity for the right buyer. If you'll look back here in the orchard and along the woods edges, you'll see lots more opportunities to grow herbs and spices out of the view of pesky neighbours and the DEA. Ahhh, that's the Department of Ecology Administration. Yeah, that's it. If you are actually interested, you shouldn't wait too long to make an offer. I have shown this property three times in two days and I know I am not the only agent who has shown it. Matter of fact, I wish I could swing buying it right now myself. Opps... gotta take this... hello?... yes, it's still for sale... I am at the property right now... can I call you back? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 23 Sep 10 - 06:46 PM These kids ain't goin' nowhere's... Okay, the grandyoungin's might but the P-Vine 3 sons is homebodies... As fir privies??? Who needs 'um... Hey, you think I go runnin' back the the house everytime that nature sneaks up on me??? Hell no, I don't... Sorry, P-Gator, to have scared ya'... I try to tell folks that I is a hillbilly and lots think that I'm jokin'... There are days and days that go by that the only folks I see (or hear) is the P-Vine and our 4 cats... I like it taht way and the properties we're lookin' at around Charlotte have privacy, too... Come to think about it, I've spent most of my life livin' in places that have privacy... Kinda used to it... The house is being shown tghis Saturday by the very same agent we bought it from 5 plus years ago... Man, that would be fittin' if her people bought it... Movin' ain't gonna be easy... Heck, I gotta entire shop full o' power tools and hardward and this 'n that's that gonna have to go with us... I must be nuts... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: SINSULL Date: 23 Sep 10 - 06:48 PM No privy? That eliminates about 50% of Kendall's repertoire. How do you pee? she asks innocently. This sounds like a perfest spot for the House Of The Setting Sun. Care to donate to a good cause, bobbie? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: kendall Date: 23 Sep 10 - 07:20 PM Sorry, too far from the ocean. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 23 Sep 10 - 07:29 PM Just wait until the big earthquake comes, Capt'n then you'll have beachfront property... Opps... Sorry... Wrong coast... Tyhe big one is gonin' Amos's way... How do I pee, Sins??? You shitin' me??? Look, I got all this land and so I wanta pee then as long as it ain't in one of the P-Vine's garden beds it ain't no problem at all... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Rapparee Date: 23 Sep 10 - 07:40 PM Bobert, Kendall -- global warming is gonna flood Maine and this WILL be beachfront property. Maybe you could add that to the realtor's description: "Will soon be beachfront property." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Ebbie Date: 23 Sep 10 - 08:11 PM Lovely place, Bobert. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: katlaughing Date: 23 Sep 10 - 08:28 PM Good luck with Saturday's showing! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 23 Sep 10 - 08:29 PM Yes, Eb... And the piccures don't do it justice... No piccures of any of the gardens... None of the barns... The horse fields... Just dumb ol' house... And not even a piccure of my ol' tractor... Like, what's that all about, anyway... These real estate peoples don't know jack from jack... I woulda put about 10 barn pic and half that many of my tractor... (But, Boberdz... You prolly gonna take yer tractor with ya'...) I am??? (Well, ya might...) Hey, that's cool... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity Date: 23 Sep 10 - 08:35 PM Great!!..Now you can give th money to your favorite 'person in need'... or are you holding out for the best price??...you capitalist pig, you!!! GfS P.S. Only 'liberal' to a degree, eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: SINSULL Date: 23 Sep 10 - 08:55 PM I swear to you I knew a man in NYC who bought up acres and acres of desert land outside Nevada. The salesman convinced him that the Big One was imminent and this would be waterfront property. Would be funny except he barely had a pot to pee in and a family to support. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Kent Davis Date: 23 Sep 10 - 09:06 PM Beautiful place, Bobert! It's what I hope our place will look like one day (maybe when the student loans are paid off). It must be hard to leave such a nice farm, but it will be wonderful to be closer to family. May God bless your move. Kent |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 23 Sep 10 - 09:15 PM Well, Sins... I donno... I think this farm will look purdy much in 50 years as it does today... I mean, it's very isolated as P-Gator said... Back up to the Shenandoah National Park so you can walk, or take a 4 wheeler ATV for miles and miles and miles and.... That's it's amin sellin' point... The mean ol' developersw ain't gonna ever mess it up... Might of fact, provided we get it sold, I'm gonna miss it.... I got 5 years of very hard labor in it and I hate to loose it but, hey, ih the words of Dr. Phil, "When mama ain't happy, no body happy" so I gotta do what a "wussy" man gotta do... But it will be fine... I've had 5 plus wonderful year here and 20 years back in the Wes Ginny mountains so I reckon I can get used to a little flat land... Prolly walk with a limp but, hey... BTW, GfonS... I'm kinda chockin' that little post off to PMS... Of course, it could be insanity but I'm givin' you the benefit of the doubt... ****grin****.... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: wysiwyg Date: 23 Sep 10 - 09:25 PM Are we all gonna hafta move plants AGAIN? ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 23 Sep 10 - 09:43 PM You would have to bring that up, wouldn't you, WYSuz... Unfortunately we are in the process of taggin' plants that we're takin'... Last time it was 550 plants... I'm hopin' to keep it at less than 100 this time... Well, not exactly, seein' as the P-Vine is growin' on lots from cuttings so we have at least 500 but they will be smaller... Okay, prolly 500 in total but most cuttings in small pots... I'm gonna have to find some dependable help in NC 'cause I'm gonna need some help with plantin' after we come up with an overall design... Man, I'd much rather talk about moving shop tools... Think I'm gonna buy a used 20 foot "sea container" and set up the tool room/ hardware store in it... I can have it hauled and set up where ever so I'll have my tools and stuff... We allready had a skimish over it today and I think the P-Vine understands that if I'm gonna move 500 plants then I want my tools... I think she gets it but I expect several more skirmishes over this... Normal... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 23 Sep 10 - 10:02 PM Neither link works here for me in Australia. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 23 Sep 10 - 10:06 PM I'm up here on the top side and yer pudder, and you fir that matter, is like upside down... Ya' either got turn yer pudder over or stand on yer head... Jus' funnin'.... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: open mike Date: 23 Sep 10 - 11:32 PM i get this message no matter which link i use.. The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. maybe there are too many buyers or mudcats or both logged on to the site. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: katlaughing Date: 23 Sep 10 - 11:47 PM It's hanging up big time right now. Either it's their server or a lot of folks are up late looking! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: JennieG Date: 23 Sep 10 - 11:56 PM It's not loading for me and I am already standing on my head and I have a new puder anyways.......only a week old..... Best luck with the move Bobert....I'm sure it will go well for you both. Just think of being in a new place as being another stitch in the rich tapestry of life. And stuff like that. We're happy we made our move earlier this year. Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 24 Sep 10 - 05:52 AM Looks like a good relocation place for the NYCFTTS. Of, course 3 bed isn't enough, so we'd have to park a few trailers as well... RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 24 Sep 10 - 09:17 AM Well, we are working on getting some garden pics into the mix... Just putting the last few touches on having the house ready to show tomorrow... Then, as per usual, the P-Vine's imagination has gotten the best of her and she is convinced that a black locust tree is gettin' ready to fall over in one of her gardens so it's... ...last minute {{{{{{{{PANIC!!!}}}}}}}}}... I don't think the tree is anywhere close to fallin' but, hey, I'm just the "man" and a man's thinkerator ain't right when a womanz has her mind made up on somethin' even when her mind is wrong... So, seein' as this particular tree is in the middle of the gardens she has our tree-guy comin'... Heck, if it were up to me I'd just go out and park my tractor about where I thought the top would fall and cut it down and let it fall on the tractor's ROPs (Roll Over Protection) and then none of her plant would get hurt but... ...like I said... I just the "man"... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: olddude Date: 24 Sep 10 - 09:22 AM Ok Bobster lets start, a case of shine a 1994 powder blue Taurus, I will throw in a wiener dog and an old Slim Whitman recording. Hows that fer an offer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: olddude Date: 24 Sep 10 - 09:24 AM But ya gotta leave the pile of logs to hide behind when the crazy neighbor starts a shootin again ... deal? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Sep 10 - 10:22 AM Do what Rapaire would do, Bobert. Blow that tree away with a few well-placed pounds of plastic explosive. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 24 Sep 10 - 10:47 AM Hi, Bobert. Glad to hear that the sons are homebodies. I was a little worried. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 24 Sep 10 - 12:10 PM First of all the gun nut neighbor is gone, gone, gone... Yup, seems that the house below us was owned by his ma-in-law and he done scred his wife so bad with all that shootin' that she left and mama come down an threw his butt outta her house and he ain't been back... Secondly, which LP is that Ol'ster??? Well, my tree guy just left... Heck, he rigged this up and that up and the danged tree still went where it wanted to go and destroyed 40 feet of my deer fence so while he was cuttin' it up I was replacin' that section of fence... I mean, I could have done exactly what he ended up doin'... I got experience in fellin' trees the wrong way... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: kendall Date: 24 Sep 10 - 12:23 PM GfS, I hope you were kidding in that remark about Bobert. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Richard Bridge Date: 24 Sep 10 - 12:32 PM A friend of mine is hoping the retire to the USA. I've sent him the link. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Ebbie Date: 24 Sep 10 - 12:34 PM lol. You lead an interesting life, Bobert. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Amos Date: 24 Sep 10 - 01:21 PM Sounds like an interesting life leads Bobert, Eb!! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: gnu Date: 24 Sep 10 - 03:03 PM Wait a minuite. Yer up agin a Park? No huntin there? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 24 Sep 10 - 04:20 PM Well, Capt'n... GfinS is a tad on the peeved side these days with me but she'll get over it... Or won't... Nothin' I can do about it... Last week she said 'cuase I don't read music that the blues I play is "stupid noise"??? Yeah, Eb... Never a dull moment... If I had one I'd find somethin' to un-dull it... Purdy uneventfull here... We've spent the last 3 weeks de-Bob 'n de-P-Vinin' it... Speakin' of dull... . No toys...No magazines... No junk... No clutter... In other words it's like house-lite... Even the gardens are borin'... No hoses to trip over... No tools in then yard to find with the mower... No bags of mulch here and there or pots of this or that waiting to get planted... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 24 Sep 10 - 04:42 PM "Even the gardens are borin" You know, Bobert, that's an insightful thing to say. This time of year, the garden seems to pause and catch a breath. No more tomatoes or roses, trees look tired. The weather is pleasant, but it seems like everything wants to slow down and rest a bit before winter comes. Unless, of course, one is a migrating bird. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 24 Sep 10 - 05:01 PM Well, we're usually into our fall veggie garden but with all the work we've been doin' trying to get the farm showable the fall garden hasn't happened... We are getting 5 pounds ot tomatoes everyday and another pound or so or okra... But, yeah, all in all, things are a little tired... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: PoppaGator Date: 24 Sep 10 - 05:16 PM Bobert, I wasn't scared during my little pilgrimage to your mountain there ~ I was just nervous about getting back on the road, jiggling my leg and glancing back and forth at my wristwatch, er, I mean cellphone. I really regret that we didn't have more time, or at least that I couldn't have spent my little time with you two in a more relaxed manner. By the way ~ are we all familiar with the phrase "buying the farm" as an expression meaning to be killed? Get shot while serving the Army (US Army, anyway) and your GI insurance will allow your folks to pay off the mortgage on the family homestead. I've been wondering if the expression were commonly known throughout the English-speaking world, or just to us 'Murcans ~ when I saw the thread title the other day, that's the first thing I thought... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: JennieG Date: 24 Sep 10 - 05:51 PM It's very nice, Bobert, the link loaded for me last night while you were replacing your deer fence and cussing the tree man. Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 24 Sep 10 - 06:12 PM LOL, Jen... Actually, me and the tree guy get along fine... We both looked it over when he got here and kinda agreed on what we goin' to try to do... The only reason I ever call him is 'cause he's young and strong and straps on that belt and cleats and climbs trees like it was nuthin'... All with a chainsaw tied to his belt... But glad you liked the pics... Hoefully we'll get the agent to pur some garden pics up??? B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: katlaughing Date: 24 Sep 10 - 07:31 PM PoppaGator, I was wondering if anyone would say anything.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Ebbie Date: 24 Sep 10 - 07:41 PM Me too. I was glad to see the second sentence of the title. :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 24 Sep 10 - 09:21 PM What, ya'll... Think ol' hillbilly diein'... Sheet fire... Only in my dreams... The P-Vine got be booked up fir at least the next 20 years 'er so... "St Peter don't ya' call me 'cause I can't go I own my soul to the company sto..." Company sto here is, you guessed it... The P-Vine... Glad you weren't scared none, p-gator... Sorry the joint was such a mess... If you look at the kitchen/great room that's where we sat in the old car port and had supper... Seems like more than 5 years ago but my how time flies when yer havin fun, 'er overworked, 'er both... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: DougR Date: 24 Sep 10 - 09:26 PM Is Bobert included in the sale price? DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: frogprince Date: 24 Sep 10 - 09:38 PM I've been accustomed to the expression "buying the farm" for dying all my life. As it happened, I think that early in life I heard a semi-literal usage for it a number of times, referring to some small plane pilot killed in a rural crash - sort of "claiming" a patch of farm land by staking it out with his cadaver. Poppagator's explanation of the origin of the expression rings truer for me, though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 24 Sep 10 - 09:52 PM Well, Dougie... Here's the deal... If I "convey" with the farm then I get to stay where I am very content: a Virginny mountain holler... But the downside??? Ahhhh, no P-Vine 'cause this ol' gal is like, ahhhh, out-a-here!!! Yesterday!!! So what's a wuss to do??? I mean, this ain't rocket surgery... So it's off to Carolina witha banjo on my knee... But I swear on my grandmother's Bible that I will never, ever root for no Carolina team!!! I don't care if it's, ahhhhh, the North Carolina Olympic Tiddley Winks Team... No rootin'... Period!!! Purdy interestin' showin' tomorrow... Very convoluted also... Nevermind... Kinda hard thig to explain... One of the backardz kinda country things... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: katlaughing Date: 24 Sep 10 - 10:12 PM Well, that one makes sense, too, frogprince. DougR...LOL!! Good to *see* your sense of humour! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Rapparee Date: 24 Sep 10 - 10:39 PM Actually, to "buy the farm" meant a "farm" about 6 feet long and 3 feet wide and 6 feet (or so) deep. Even the current USD 100,000 serviceman's life insurance wouldn't pay off the mortgage on a farm. Naturally when I want it I can't find my copy of the "1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" but Snopes puts the use of "buy" or "bought" meaning killed back to 1825. "Become a landowner" was, according to the same source, a slang term for being killed in WW1. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 24 Sep 10 - 11:28 PM Ummmmmm... Accordin' the the mirror, I ain't dead, thank ya'll very much... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: katlaughing Date: 25 Sep 10 - 12:18 AM I'll bet that mirror didn't tell you you were the prettiest of all, though, Bobert! (You don't have any poisonous apples around do you?)LOL! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 25 Sep 10 - 04:02 PM Nah, kat... All the mirrors I know are painfully honest... lol... Had our 1st showing today... People had "children"... Prolly not enoufgh house for "children"... One child??? Different story... But, the farm/house is in "showable" shape so now it's just a matter of discipline keepin' it this way so if we get a call that someone wants to see it that we won't have to panic... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: katlaughing Date: 25 Sep 10 - 04:10 PM Well, jeepers, they can add-on for an extra kid or two, can't they? I mean with all that roamin' room, ya'd think it would be a paradise for kids.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: gnu Date: 25 Sep 10 - 05:25 PM Extra kids can sleep in the converted outhouse. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 25 Sep 10 - 05:34 PM Well, yeah, it was mentioned to them that they could add on... Didn't seem to interest them... Oh well... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Rapparee Date: 25 Sep 10 - 06:25 PM Screw 'em if they can't buy your house! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: DougR Date: 25 Sep 10 - 06:27 PM Seriously, Bobert, it looks like a very nice place. I don't know what's happend to the real estate market up your way (it's gone to hell here)but I should think you would have little trouble selling it. Good luck! DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: gnu Date: 25 Sep 10 - 06:35 PM It's all about finding the right buyer. When I sold my camp (sniff) I couldn't get anyone to buy it for nearly two years... a $35,000 camp, but it was on a one acre government lease. NOBODY wants to have anything to do with the government. I found a buyer. Had I still been asking $25k, I would have got close to that, but I was happy to get $18k (a profit for me in the long run). Sometimes, ya gotta sit on sommat for a while. But, I don't think Bobert will have to sit too long... it's beautiful. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 25 Sep 10 - 07:12 PM Hey, for every seat there's an ass... Heck, it's been shown once and only after being listed for 5 days... That ain't bad... Another couple weeks and the leaves begine to turn and the DC flock to this area and who knows... I ain't gonna worry none... It's all outta my hands... I'm doin' what I need to do... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Rapparee Date: 25 Sep 10 - 10:13 PM I still think you should donate it to the Mudcat Cafe so we'll have a place to go and |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 25 Sep 10 - 10:27 PM Glad yer comin' east, Rap, 'cause we should be able to get a reliable pee sample from ya, son... Ya' see, the way my Wes Ginny Slide Rule figurates it, ahhhh, lemme see??? Ahhhhhh??? Yeah, okay... The WGSR says that if ya' donate the farm yer gonna be, ahhhhh, homeless... Hmmmmm??? Homeless??? Doesn't sound to warm & fuzzy at this stage of my life but, hey, ya' might wanta chack back with me in a few months... Ya' never know... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: maeve Date: 25 Sep 10 - 10:55 PM I kind of wish I could help you plant all of the precious plants in their new homes, Bobert. I know you two will make the new place as comfortable for you as the new gardens will be for your transplants. Enjoy the adventure. Maeve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: katlaughing Date: 26 Sep 10 - 12:39 AM But, if you make it the Mudcat Retirement Home, nobody's gonna kick you out, so you wouldn't be homeless at all and jes thinka all thet company ya'd have! The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Music..and creaks and groans and twangs and...well you get the picture...**BG** |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 26 Sep 10 - 08:44 AM Well, maeve... We went out yesterday and put surveyer's tape on the plants that do not convey... Ain't gonna be as bad as when we moved here from Wes Ginny... That was right at 550 plants... I think this time it may be closer to 50 that will be moved... Okay, we have a couple three hundred more that are growing in pots or growing in the heeling bed that we're growing on from cuttings... And if we get some rain then we'll take some more cuttings and start them but at least these plants are very manageable and can live in pots quite nicely... As fir this farm being a retirement home??? Maybe??? Ya'll take up a collection and buy it... That fine with me... We'll send ya'll pics of the new joint ion Charlotte... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: VirginiaTam Date: 26 Sep 10 - 10:04 AM so we'll have a place to go and have orgies play music Why does this comment call to mind what happened at Amos' house when he was away? Have to say, I do love the idea of a Mudcat Retirement home. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Ebbie Date: 26 Sep 10 - 12:01 PM That was such a nice party. sigh |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: katlaughing Date: 26 Sep 10 - 12:51 PM VTam, it's long been a DREAM around here. (That thread really took off with Rick's first posting.) (Bobert, just teasin' ya darlin'.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Desert Dancer Date: 26 Sep 10 - 12:52 PM Three bedrooms is pretty cozy for a retirement home... an addition might be required in that event, too. (Might be the right amount of room for the |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 26 Sep 10 - 01:05 PM Ummmmmm, there is also a very well built "farrowing barn" (speakin' of orgies) that is 100 X 35 that could easially be built out into a Mudville Retirement Center... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: gnu Date: 26 Sep 10 - 01:33 PM Bobert... "We went out yesterday and put surveyer's tape on the plants that do not convey..." Take pics too. Ya never know, eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Richard Bridge Date: 26 Sep 10 - 05:21 PM Any of those plants grow without sterile hydrophonics, if you know what I mean? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: gnu Date: 26 Sep 10 - 05:36 PM Hahahaha... not a good idea to transport THOSE eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: kendall Date: 27 Sep 10 - 07:51 AM Bobert, I look forward to seeing you at the Getaway. You are one of my favorite Mudcatters. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 27 Sep 10 - 08:32 AM Well, sniff, Capt'n... An' back atcha in the favs category... But seein' as you fell this way I reckon that maybe you should buy my farm... Yeah, that's the plan... You buy it and I'll even thrown in my Kubota... And you know how I feel about my tractor... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Amos Date: 27 Sep 10 - 10:31 AM HEy, if you're throwing in the tractor, Bobert, I might reconsider that 300K offer... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: kendall Date: 27 Sep 10 - 03:19 PM If you throw in that old flat head Ford so I can plant pansies in it and use it for a lawn ornament, I might consider it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: gnu Date: 27 Sep 10 - 04:47 PM You feel about your tractor? Does SHE know about this fetish? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Richard Bridge Date: 27 Sep 10 - 05:07 PM I'm amazed how cheap it is. Surely some fat cat could fit a helipad in there to commute to a fiscal centre... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 27 Sep 10 - 05:10 PM Could be yer's, Rich... Tractor and all... Sorry, Capt'n, but this is FORD country... We grow strawberries in ol' Chevys... I know... Makes 'um taste bad but what else can ya do with a Chev??? And, ahhhh, 100... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 27 Sep 10 - 05:11 PM Huh??? Where'd 100 go??? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Richard Bridge Date: 27 Sep 10 - 06:54 PM I was it, but was posting not counting |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: kendall Date: 27 Sep 10 - 08:54 PM One time when I was in the service I was driving a 1947 DeSoto. Some shipmates and I were on the Maine turnpike and of course, we had to "let them out". He was driving a flat head Ford, 1951 vintage doing 100 mph on his clock. I went by him and my clock showed 95. I wonder what caused that? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bill D Date: 27 Sep 10 - 10:17 PM Prevarication? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Rapparee Date: 27 Sep 10 - 10:26 PM Couldn't left ya both in the dust drivin' a Willys. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: kendall Date: 28 Sep 10 - 09:16 AM Not if it had a Willys engine. I asked him how fast he was going and he said 100. I figured his Ford had a very ambitious speedometer. Tell me, Bobert, did you ever tangle with a Packard? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wanna Buy the Farm? Bobert's Sellin'! From: Bobert Date: 28 Sep 10 - 09:53 AM Yeah, and lived to talk about it... It was in 10th 'er 11th grade and Janet Packard was said to be, ahhhhhhh, how you say it??? Okay... An animal in the back seat of anything with wheels... So I spend an afternoon ridin' in the back seat of Art Buckner's mama's 61 Ford with the gal... Got me a little education that afternoon... The kind ya' don't get in school... B;~) |
