Unobtanium: Ooof, college! I'm still paying those bills, myself! It's like having an invisible house / mortgage. Paying one of the loans off within the next month. I've still got one or two big ones to go.
I at least have my parents who have a good chunk of rural land that they let me use however I want. We have projects together, etc. We do maple syrup, I grow hops, garden, etc., on the land. We even have an apple orchard which is very old --- easily over 100 years old and still producing apples --- I bought an antique wine / apple press this year, so hopefully I'll have a little cider to show for it.
I guess that will work until I buy a little piece of land near the ADK park as a camp.
Side note: As a thought, it would be best to have your cash hidden in PMs before sending kids to college if you are looking for aid... I'll have to work on that when my kids get to that age! Well, I guess I am working on that!
HCA! It's been a while!
I haven't made it up into the ADKs yet this summer with all of the "goings on" --- but I think that I am making a trip up next weekend for a BBQ. I think that I might make a trip out to Oswego for the salmon run this fall... hopefully!
I figure that you like Pink Floyd from your avatar. I'm currently sitting in my living room watching an Allman Brothers concert on MSG (you know, kinda similar era as Floyd --- I'm a Floyd fan, myself), finishing up a Saranac Session IPA. Tasty tasty. It's a very good evening so far. Man-oh-man. Well deserved.
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I have one or two issues with my house that need to be fixed and it looks like I chose the hottest day of the year tomorrow to replace a back porch roof that's leaking and all molded up. It's never been too important for me to fix, but I guess since people are looking at the house, I need to take care of it.
It's been rough getting friends to help out this year... everyone has their own thing going on. But, I'm a "head-down-plow-through" personality. I don't care if I have to work into the dark and haul plywood onto the roof all by myself - it will get done.
I'm sure I'll stop by PMBug and see what's up at some point tomorrow.
Take care all!
ADK