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Subject: BS: A house! A house! From: Rapparee Date: 08 Oct 03 - 10:23 PM At 1:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time, today, October 8, 2003, our offer on a house was accepted by the sellers! YES! Before the weather turns really cold I can move out of the cardboard box under the bridge!! Now we'll have room for my wife's fabric, for her to quilt, for me to sit in a corner and mope, but mostly a place WHERE I CAN PLAY MY TRUMPET AND NOT BOTHER ANYONE except Pat. No, it's not the one with the pit. Someone else got that one. This one is a tad smallish, with a nominal 4,200 sq. ft, 5 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, two full kitchens (it used to have a downstairs apartment), two fireplaces with inserts, and back yard that looks out onto a golf course (but not where flying golf balls will be a frequent hazard). What's that? What do you mean, "Now you have to pay for it?" Aw, poop. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: artbrooks Date: 08 Oct 03 - 10:35 PM Librarians sure do get paid good in Boise. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Amos Date: 08 Oct 03 - 10:43 PM 4200 square feet is a tad smallish compared to where you lived when you were the Chancellor of Notre Dame, I suppose, or President of the US. But for most working class Americans that is a pretty generous chunk of residence you got there Rapaire!! Might one enquire what you're paying? Only if it isn't tabu to ask. Congratulations on a house. Now, a heap o' living..... A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: wysiwyg Date: 08 Oct 03 - 10:58 PM Two kitchens? Gotta have a MudGather. Congrats! When do we show up? ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Amergin Date: 08 Oct 03 - 11:01 PM i say we can all head on over as soon as possible....i aint employed i can drive there.... ;) |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Ebbie Date: 08 Oct 03 - 11:15 PM Isn't Rapaire in Idaho? Hey, I can make it too. Let's have a BIG party. Please set up the coffee pot in a convenient spot. Appreciate it. (And I want the bathroom closest to the music room, please.) :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Bill D Date: 08 Oct 03 - 11:31 PM 4200 squares? I could have a REAL shop somewhere in that! And I thought my 2000 was pretty good. Heating bills may be 'interesting' in Idaho...but it sounds good! |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: open mike Date: 09 Oct 03 - 12:04 AM shoot-i should have come by your card board abode when i was thru there this summer...happy house warming! |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Oct 03 - 12:18 AM I found two that come close in Realtor.com:
3,990 Sq. Ft. MLS ID#: 98135662 The other is:
MLS ID#: 98145353. It's actually in Idaho City. Top listing sounds more like what you describe, but it seems odd to have a duplex out in the boonies. Is it in Boise proper? SRS (I love this kind of detective work!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Amos Date: 09 Oct 03 - 12:21 AM I'm loading the station wagon as I write. Won't need a tent with all that floor space, but a sleeping bag, a new fifth of single malt, a couple of pounds of French roast, spare socks and undies...spare strings....banjo, six-strings, twelve-string...hmmmtteetumdy tum......wow!! I think it'll all fit!!! See ya soon, Rap!!! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Amergin Date: 09 Oct 03 - 12:37 AM amos can you pick me up on the way? i gotta have my blankies and my clothes and towel...and my books of course...i'm all set. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Amos Date: 09 Oct 03 - 12:47 AM Only if you bring your pacifiers. Why not -- we can kidnap MAG, Jen, Mousethief, Mudjack and Jeannie for the occasion and descend on Rapaire with a couple of dozen square feet of our own!! LOL!!! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Wilfried Schaum Date: 09 Oct 03 - 05:08 AM Rapaire - Congratulations; enjoy your house, at least for the first weeks - then you will see that your work will never end. I'm a house owner for 60 years and I'm always harrassed by my wife: Repaint here, a tap to repair there, and when did you mow the lawn for the las time? &c. ... Now the whole electric system must be replaced, since it's 70 years old and growing dangerous, so we live in a construction site again. But you may sometimes still find time for your books and trumpet ... Wilfried (a fellow librarian) |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Rapparee Date: 09 Oct 03 - 08:22 AM Books: about 3,900 pounds (1769.010243 Kgs.) of them. Fabric for The Quilter: there must be a thousand fat quarters (quilters will know). Clothes: yup, got some of those. Furniture and assorted crap: A lot. Guitar: one, and it has to be restrung and retuned. Trumpet: one, and it doesn't need any new strings AND I've recently had the spitvalve recorked, so it doesn't drool. Cost (yeah, I'll tell): USD 185,000, less whatever we put out for a downpayment from the money we made on the sale of our house in South Bend, Indiana. Ultimately, I think it'll come in that we need a mortgage for about USD 140,000. Obviously we have to get some stuff done at the house -- bookcases, fabric shelves, and replacing the red/black 1970s-look carpet in the lower level (too dark, and it makes the stairs dangerous), adding a water heater.... 'Twas built in 1968. Librarians don't make terrific money (our rewards are in the smiles of the people we serve), but my wife's a mathematician/librarian/attorney. If she says we can afford it, I believe her, since my own math skills are somewhat less than hers. And we don't have it yet...the offer we made was accepted, but we haven't paid for it yet. Actually, it's effectively two houses. This is LDS (Mormon) country, and many of the houses are that way because of their beliefs (no, they don't need to have a separate kosher kitchen). There's also a "wet bar" which is like a kitchen but without a stove. We're still in shock about doing this. Me, a poor, shy kid from the Great Middle West, buying a house like this, one which backs up to a golf course where I can shoot them golfs as they whiz by.... Golf's like polo, but played without horses, isn't it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: GUEST,MMario Date: 09 Oct 03 - 08:26 AM Trumpet "bothers" people? yeesh! Enjoy the new house... |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Rapparee Date: 09 Oct 03 - 08:55 AM Trumpets bother people when you're working to restore your embouchre. It's like learning the play the bagpipes, only restore your embouchre can actually be accomplished. Once we get this and are settled in, anyone want to pass through and do house concerts? Pocatello is actually on the way to nowhere in particular, unless you're going to Blackfoot or Idaho Falls or Missoula, or, in the other direction, Inkom, Downey, Mccallum, Malad Summit.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Oct 03 - 09:54 AM So where is this house exactly? I wasn't thinking back to earlier conversations and did a search in Boise. You're in Pocatello? Proper, or environs? (It's a marvelous price, by the way, all things considered). SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Oct 03 - 10:00 AM Okay, I think I found it. If there is an offer accepted, this link won't stick around for more than a few days. Sometimes they leave them up until closing to hedge their bets. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: GUEST,MMario Date: 09 Oct 03 - 10:32 AM well - it certainly matches his descriptions - including the golf course out back. Lovely fireplaces! |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Amos Date: 09 Oct 03 - 10:59 AM Well -- if that's the one, the red carpet has got to go!! Everything else looks great!! (Rap, I hope you don't mind me flaunting anopinion here and there. Nothin' personal!! :>)) A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Oct 03 - 12:00 PM Yeah, I had that thought about the red carpet also. Maybe he could cut it into strips, sew it together end to end, and have one helluva red carpet entrance to his first house warming? :) Isn't it nice what we can do with the internet? Perhaps we should send him to some sites for carpets, furnishings--we'll have that house ready to go by the time he's ready to move into it! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: GUEST,MMario Date: 09 Oct 03 - 12:03 PM Did you notice the bit about "RV parking"? nice to know... |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Bill D Date: 09 Oct 03 - 12:22 PM throw out the red? all you need with a red carpet is some purple furniture, yellow drapes and green lamps, and you have a room for YOU! |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Rapparee Date: 09 Oct 03 - 12:55 PM Good Lord, but it's hard to keep anything from you people! Yes indeed, that's the very place. The red is going, probably be replaced by a nice tan berber or something similar. Or a heather blue. Or something other than that light-sucking red. The backyard is nice, and backs up to the golf course (2nd hole, about 80 feet off the tee). I plan to get a water balloon slingshot. They put a golf ball in my yard or through my window, SPLOOSH!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: katlaughing Date: 09 Oct 03 - 12:57 PM But he said theirs had five bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms. Otherwise that looks like the one. :-) Congratulations, Rapaire and mathematician/librarian/attorney/numbers wiz wife! That's kind of the way I felt when we bought this place...our first since 1983! kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Amos Date: 09 Oct 03 - 01:06 PM Bill D: I thought that sort of color scheme was peculiar to Southern California!! lol A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: GUEST,MMario Date: 09 Oct 03 - 01:08 PM but now you don't have to send up pictures. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: GUEST,Stilly River Sage (watching the front desk) Date: 09 Oct 03 - 01:54 PM Kat, I pulled up the place on a map search and plugged in values slightly under what he'd told us about the house, because the Realtor.com software has gotten pretty good at filtering out houses that don't match your specs if you name them. And perhaps one of those bedrooms is the type that is either/or bedroom or office. We had one of those in my first house, a bedroom with French doors off of the living room. I put up nice curtains and it was a bedroom, but I also used it as an office at one time (before the second kid came along). I almost bought a house in New Mexico a few years ago, and had narrowed my search to it on the internet before going to see it. And the house I'm in now I also first found on the internet. The photos are typically like looking through a keyhole--a very small impression of a much larger place, but it's a great start. And it looks like you found a wonderful property! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: C-flat Date: 09 Oct 03 - 06:26 PM Looks like a lot of house for the money! I hope the deal goes through without a hitch and you have many happy times there. Good luck. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: katlaughing Date: 09 Oct 03 - 07:25 PM Thanks for the explanation, SRS. I found the one we bought on Realtor.com, in fact I never saw it in 3D until after the purchase when Rog went back to Wyoming to move me and our household down here! Of course, he was here and saw it in person and signed all of the papers with power of attorney, but I guess we could say we bought our house on the internet!**bg** I love browsing through their site. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Amergin Date: 09 Oct 03 - 07:33 PM sure thing, amos...just let me put the pacifier on my bottle of black bush.... and i'll be set... ;) |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Amos Date: 09 Oct 03 - 07:55 PM LOL!! Watch out Rapaire!! We're comin' to visit!! Can you play golf with a banjo? A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Rapparee Date: 09 Oct 03 - 08:33 PM On Saturday I'm going there to inspect with the house inspector and the pest inspector and the radon inspector. I'll know more about it by late Saturday afternoon, perhaps more than I care to know. We might be able to to closing yet this month, so we can have the necessary alterations done before we move in. So...if anyone wants to shovel pigeon poop around the middle of November.... Actually, if anyone does want to come visit, just let me know a day or so in advance so I can get out of...er, clean the place up a little. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Sorcha Date: 09 Oct 03 - 08:46 PM Looks like a lot of money to me! (I know I posted to this thread before, but it's not here.....gremlins ate it I guess) Congrats, Mike! |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: rangeroger Date: 09 Oct 03 - 11:22 PM Well, I'm ready to head south and visit. I'll even bring my golf clubs along with assorted string instruments. Mike, if you're going to be with inspectors on Sat.,does that mean you're not coming to Post Falls this weekend? rr |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Rapparee Date: 10 Oct 03 - 08:05 AM Well, it's more money than I've ever spend on anything in my life. Even after the downpayment it's more. But it's buying a nice place (at least, from what I can tell). And it will have room for Pat to quilt and for me to do whatever it is I do. I can have a garden (there's already aspargus growing), and I can build a spud gun and shoot potatoes across the golf course. We've already gotten friends and family lined up to visit next Spring and Summer ("Oh, Boy!" said nephew Danny, "I can go fish for trout in Idaho!" "So, where are you going to take me elk hunting?" asked brother Tony. "Where are the quilt shops?" asked Pat's friends.) Brings up a song: There's a hole in my wallet, dear Liza, dear Liza, There's a hole in my wallet, dear Liza, a hole.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: GUEST,amergin Date: 10 Oct 03 - 12:33 PM don't forget the mudcat hordes ready to descend on you're lovely oasis in the desert of Southern Idaho... |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: brid widder Date: 10 Oct 03 - 02:44 PM congratulations Rapaire... I'm not sure about $ & £ exchange rates but it looks a bargain compared with UK prices... and it is gorgeous!! Please please please tell me ... what is an 'embouchre'... the word cropped up in a song I am learning & I've no idea... except that it has something to do with playing brass instruments... oh and what do you do with half a bath?.... just the bottom half? |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: GUEST,MMario Date: 10 Oct 03 - 02:47 PM "half bath" in the US usually means WC with no bathing facility (don't forget over here they are usually in the same room) |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 Oct 03 - 02:48 PM Ha! Can't answer the brass question, but can answer the bath question. Here a "full bath" consists of a bathtub, a toilet, and a sink. If it has only a shower it is sometimes called 3/4, or in some way distinguished as not having the tub. A half bath has only the commode and the sink. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: brid widder Date: 10 Oct 03 - 02:56 PM we call that a loo! |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Rapparee Date: 10 Oct 03 - 03:31 PM "Embouchre" is the shaping and moving of the lips (and tongue) when playing a brass or other mouth-played instrument instrument. I have to get my embouchre back, which means that I have to play so that I exercise the muscles that are used in playing trumpet, learn again to coordinate the fingering of the valves the the "tightness" of the lips to the specific note, and so on. Woodwind players also have embouchres. Pipers don't, usually. Once you learn it you don't forget it, but you have to rebuild old roads in the brain (so to speak). Trumpeters who can double or triple tongue when playing are often very popular for some reason.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Amos Date: 10 Oct 03 - 03:33 PM Embouchure is the art of forming one's mouth for optimum sound in playing a brass instrument. It usually requires extensive development and practice to maintain a good embouchure. The word comes from the French feminine noun "bouche", mouth, for obvious reasons. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Alice Date: 10 Oct 03 - 04:29 PM Congrats on the house. I'm only a few hours away in Bozeman, MT. When is the Mudcat party? Next summer? You're in for it now, Rapaire!! Folkies will be sleeping on your basement floor. What is the reason for the Mormons to have an extra kitchen? We have a lot of houses like that here because it is a University town and many rent their basements out to students. Alice |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Rapparee Date: 10 Oct 03 - 07:09 PM "Oh mother, dear mother, I'm stiff and I'm sore From sleeping six nights on Rap's basement floor..." to paraphrase an old song from the CND days. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: GUEST,pdq Date: 10 Oct 03 - 07:24 PM Trouble with buying a big house is that "junk expands to fill all space available". Good luck! |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 Oct 03 - 11:43 PM pdq, have you ever got that right! If you have the packrat tendency in the family genome (I get it from both sides!) then you're just giving yourself the proverbial rope to hang yourself with. I'm figuring out all of the places to put shelves and that should help in my house (2400 square feet plus a 500sf garage). Once I get books out of boxes, there will be a lot more floor space. Something I think our friend with the new house is more than familiar with! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: GUEST,noddy Date: 11 Oct 03 - 06:58 AM should the thread title be " a house a house my kingdom for a house" |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Rapparee Date: 11 Oct 03 - 09:19 AM I am a librarian. My wife is a librarian. We are both on a twelve-step program to help us overcome our addiction to printed paper. That is why we are buying this house -- to overcome our addiction to paper printed with numbers and portraits of famous, but dead, Americans like Grant, Washington, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson. We have books. LOTS of books. New books, old books, common books, scarce books. SF, mysteries, history, medicine, reference, humor, art, quilting, Irish stuff, music, computeres, politics, law, pottery, travel, and other things expressing the eclecticism of our lives and interests. We are having more bookshelves built before we move it. One entire wall of the lower level will be bookshelves -- about 10 cases of 36 inch long shelves, probably eight to ten shelves per case -- and if you're not counting, that's about 300 feet (100 yards, 91.44 meters, 9.144 x 10^11 angstroms, 18.18181818 rods, 9.904243705224361 x 10^-15 light years [I found this neat converter]) of new shelving. It probably won't be enough. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house! From: Amergin Date: 11 Oct 03 - 12:35 PM i like snooping on people's bookshelves when i visit them....i think a bookshelf can say alot about the person who lives there... |
