The Place I Live

[phil]

Once you got a bed and a bath ...

The rest is clearly superfluous !!

[luke]

Yeah, it's a tiny little thing, but not QUITE as small as it looks in that picture. But yeah, it's basically the only house we can afford (about 80k) that's reasonably located and doesn't need that much work...

Someday I'll be able to showcase some big sprawling house of mine...

Actually, wish I had some pics of my parents' house, the one I lived in before...pretty nice sized, five acres of land, got the horse, the dogs, some nice country, all that type stuff...

[riley]

Good call on going the rent-free root bro. Looks like a place you can make some pretty simple sellable changes to and flip in a short time and at least get your $ back and even some cash back in your pockets.

[Mary]

OK well I was desperately trying to finish up a roll of film, so I took a bunch of random pics around my apartment. Here we go.

Here's where I work at home (and where I'm usually sitting when I'm procrastinating here at RS Castaways!):



Here's my favorite part of my bedroom:



Here's the lovely view from our enormous wonderful living room windows:



And here's the fireplace in the same living room:



I do love this apartment. Though I must apologize if these images are monstrously enormous, as I am technologically inept.

Cheers,
M

[Ampage]

Suh-weet fireplace Mary! I wish I had a wood burner, my house has a gas one that I have never used. Whats the point if you cant hear/smell the logs ya know?

Lukie Poo, your new place looks cute, but you don’t even work do you? Your parents buying it for you or what?

[Meursault]

Luke: So you plan on marrying this lady or taking the Scarecrowe living in sin way?

[JesusLooksLikeMe]

How come there's no dirty socks, Barbara Streisand posters, or used condoms in any of these photos? I suspect people are cheating.

[luke]

Amp- I work at Chili's, make between $250 and $300 a week. Girlfriend, who I'm living with, is a teacher. We'll be splitting the $580 a month or something, so I can swing it.

And Shane, yeah, we're already living together. Her parents don't know about it now (this is Catholic country, mind you, and they're from a very small, traditional Catholic little town) but they know we're moving in the house together. They're not really fans...they didn't even like her brother moving in with his future wife, so it's not really even some double standard they have.

[strat-0]

I'm enjoying all these pics and descriptions. I've been meaning to get in here with some pics if I can ever get time.

Luke, better hunker down or get outta town, dude.

[Ampage]

My bad, I was under the impression you went to school and that was it. Chilis aint bad, dig on those southwestern eggrolls.

[strat-0]

OK, well as some of you may know, I recently bought a house. It's kinda in the country, in a little town about 7 miles north of Birmingham, AL. Still getting settled in and got a lot of work to do, but I wanted to put up some pics (a couple of you may have seen some of these over at 'Postcards from Far Away Places' over on the Photo Albums boards). The place is on two acres with a little creek and a lot of woods. Five bedrooms with a finished basement for a practice room/studio (two of the extra bedrooms are downstairs) and a two car garage at long last. I love the fireplace maybe most of all. Or the deck... It is very private, which I like a lot. Quite a change from a one-bedroom condo on the southside!

Here is the creek from the deck.


Here's an overview from the deck.


Cassie says Hi!



Here's a fireplace meant to burn a real fire (right, Phil? )



...more to come...

[strat-0]

Here's looking NW off the deck.



Here's looking NE, but you can't see much...



I built a little dam on the creek that provides a nice habitat for the little fishies and crawdaddies. They are very happy, and it makes a nice splashy sound. This is looking from the back of the dam.



This is looking at the front of the dam (blurry, I know...)



This is a natural pool, upstream from the dam.



This is looking up towards the house from the creek. Not a very good shot - the deck rail on the left was obliterated by backlighting, but you can see it's on two levels, and you can see the chimney and the edge of the house on the right.



Y'all come.

[strat-0]

Oh, I almost forgot - here's the creek after Ivan came through! Break out the kayaks! Cowabunga, dude!


(That's an imagetown hosted pic, so maybe you see it, maybe you don't...) [...But hopefully not now - I'm trying imageShack...]

[Ayinger]

EXCELLENT habitat there Jeff! Especially like the creek trickeling through (tho' I'll admit my first thought seeing it off the deck was if I could piss from there and hit it....hey, I'm a guy.....crude one at times....).

I like the deal with building a dam as you did. Growing up with my best friend we did that every summer on Deer Creek just down from where we lived in the country.

Anyhow, that looks like a perfect place for you...can just picture you in those surroundings. Nice to see a shot again of the cat -- (go to the photo board and check out a shot from a few days ago of my tabby).

Now Mary: what's the deal with no curtains at your pad?? I couldn't handle that if I lived 100 miles from the nearest living person! NOT that I'm paranoid or anything..... Looks like an old building, especially with the knockout fireplace. An old girlfriend of mine that lived in Louisville had an apartment in an old mansion that had been divided up into rental units; was pretty cool, that.

I envy the book collection (please tell me that they're not all school text.....). I hope to move to new digs next summer and that's an aim of mine to get some space for extra shelving and build a bit of a library.

That said, One does have to a favorite or most cherished part of One's home, and I have to 2nd your's!



The [glow=red,2,300]PUMPKIN[/glow] thingy was a new addition the "wife" brought home last night. It's actually pretty cool with these glowing fiber optics that revolve inside it some how. I AM a bit nervous how things are going to look around here at Christmas time though....[

[stratman19]

Great pics Strat. It'd be cool if that "crick" ran like that all the time...without the benefit of Ivan!