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Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply wrote:
I would love to buy an old house like what you have. Unfortunately, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and the only house we could afford was a post-war tract home when we bought 22 years ago, because these houses are going for almost a half-million dollars right now (1000 square foot house, 1/8 acre lot) and there's no way I could afford one now. But I *LOVE* old homes and others that have character and aren't plain-vanilla tract-type homes. Snort! Melinda, that might be a rash thought... Our house is a hundred years old and last night its hundred-year-old water pipes offered up their spirit and burst! At midnight! Copiously! I've been up all night, vacillating between my daughter, who coughed until 6am and has finally fallen into an exhausted sleep and my husband who has been trying to contain the geyser in the laundry (that's where the pipes burst) and also to turn the water off at the mains. The mains tap is also a hundred years old (or so we estimate) and it didn't feel like turning off entirely. I am surrounded by the tinkle of running water (we have all the household taps on in an effort to dissipate the flow) and keep wanting to go to the dunny (that's Oz for 'toilet'), only it won't flush properly (owing to no water) and I'm encouraged by my *frazzled* husband to wait until it's *really* necessary. Hnnnhh!!! When we bought this place, we did so because it was charming and old. Believe me, that 'charm' comes at a price!!! =:-0 -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, Australia |
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She who would like to be obeyed once every Preston Guild wrote: In article , Arri London of no uttered The cats like to play table hockey after we've gone to bed. This seems to consist of chasing each other over the dining room table! Anything on the table gets knocked out of the way. Don't know how they score points though LOL Left the Pfaff on said table last night...It was on its back this morning (on some thick padding) and fortunately not on the floor. Ran it through its paces and all seemed to be well. Had it been the old all-metal Pfaff the cats wouldn't have been able to knock it over at all; that sucker was heavy. Umm ... why not just banish them from the dining room at night? They shouldn't be on the table anyway (eeeuw). My cats have always been packed off to bed in the kitchen, with the option of going out through the catflap if they want to play. -- Because this is a stupidly-designed 'open plan' house: no doors between kitchen, dining room and living room. |
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Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply wrote: She who would like to be obeyed once every Preston Guild wrote: Umm ... why not just banish them from the dining room at night? They shouldn't be on the table anyway (eeeuw). My cats have always been packed off to bed in the kitchen, with the option of going out through the catflap if they want to play. Not everybody has a sealed-off place to leave their cats. We sure don't. The only places that can get closed off is the bedrooms and the bathroom, and the cat box is in the bathroom. Precisely. Anyway the table is washed down before meals. |
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:56:00 -0500, "Cappy" cappy_p @ juno.com
wrote, in part: The "old" one was 600 yrs old, the "new" one was 300.... grin Age is all relative... grin Once heard that the main difference between Americans and Brits is that Americans think 100 years is a long time and Brits think 100 miles is a long distance. (back to lurking...) Peaches |
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In article , Kate
Dicey of Customer of PlusNet plc (http://www.plus.net) uttered YEAH! Our previous house was positively New - built in the 60's. Still had solid interior walls, though. It does make a difference to noise transmission between rooms. You were lucky. The house my folks still live in was built in 1959 - and might as well have cardboard walls. Also massive amounts of wasted space - one of the most infuriating places I've ever lived in. (I hope they leave it to my sis, not me lol!) -- AJH alpha dot hotel echo yankee whisky oscar oscar delta at tango echo sierra charlie oscar dot november echo tango |
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In article , Arri London of no uttered
Because this is a stupidly-designed 'open plan' house: no doors between kitchen, dining room and living room. Oh blimey. How about putting them out at night? They have fur coats, after all! (hehehe! I know, i'm cruel) -- AJH alpha dot hotel echo yankee whisky oscar oscar delta at tango echo sierra charlie oscar dot november echo tango |
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She who would like to be obeyed once every Preston Guild wrote:
In article , Arri London of no uttered Because this is a stupidly-designed 'open plan' house: no doors between kitchen, dining room and living room. Oh blimey. How about putting them out at night? They have fur coats, after all! (hehehe! I know, i'm cruel) If you let your cats out at all, you will be dealing with contagious disease and parasites from other cats, wounds from disagreements, cats accidentally locked in people's garages, garden sheds, basements (I had one missing for nearly 3 weeks who came home severely dehydrated, thin as a rail, with intestinal parasites from the insects he'd been eating to survive), and motor vehicles. Not to mention people with warped thoughts and actions who abuse and kill small animals. In many areas you also have coyotes and feral dogs. If your cat(s) are members of the family and you want them to live more than 6 or 8 years, keep them indoors. -- Joanne @ stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us http://bernardschopen.tripod.com/ Life is about the journey, not about the destination. |
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Pogonip wrote:
She who would like to be obeyed once every Preston Guild wrote: In article , Arri London of no uttered Because this is a stupidly-designed 'open plan' house: no doors between kitchen, dining room and living room. Oh blimey. How about putting them out at night? They have fur coats, after all! (hehehe! I know, i'm cruel) If you let your cats out at all, you will be dealing with contagious disease and parasites from other cats, wounds from disagreements, cats accidentally locked in people's garages, garden sheds, basements (I had one missing for nearly 3 weeks who came home severely dehydrated, thin as a rail, with intestinal parasites from the insects he'd been eating to survive), and motor vehicles. Not to mention people with warped thoughts and actions who abuse and kill small animals. In many areas you also have coyotes and feral dogs. If your cat(s) are members of the family and you want them to live more than 6 or 8 years, keep them indoors. It's very different for cats here in the UK. Most of them go out all the time. We've had a few cat fight injuries over the years, and a couple of car arguments, but both cats survived well, and have, on the whole, done better than many humans! Here they are top of the food chain in their little niche, and have no natural enemies other than badly trained dogs. We could no more keep our cats in than we could a child - it would be equally cruel. Ours have free access to the outside world whenever they want it. They both love the great outdoors, and hate to be shut in. If I lived somewhere I couldn't let a cat out, I wouldn't have a cat. -- Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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Pogonip wrote:
thoughts and actions who abuse and kill small animals. In many areas you also have coyotes and feral dogs. Not to mention things like raccoons, which in my area are the major cause of dead, mangled, or missing cats, so say the animal control authorities. And I believe them, because when people lived next door who had a rottweiler/german shepherd mix, they were calling animal control at least once a month to pick up dead or mangled cats or possums (but never any raccoons). Those raccoon critters are really dangerous here -- one of them that was always trying to raid our chicken pen stood about 2 feet high at the shoulders. |
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