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It's probably the quietest apartment I've ever lived in; I can hardly hear the neighbors, even when the little boy right next door is doing the running and shrieking thing that kids do before bed. One night I could hear the voices of the guy on the other side, and his gf, but not make out the words. We have a tiny back area only as wide as the apartment and one panel of privacy fencing between us, not an enclosed area at all. A neighborhood dog heard the next-door child screeching, one day, and came over to bark at us all, arranged like animals in a zoo for his viewing pleasure, with all our sliding glass back doors. He lives on the other side of a rather open little strip of trees, and his yard does not have a fence across the back, so he thinks he owns the woods, apparently.
I have put my compost bucket outside the back door, and am trying to get the top on tightly against any local raccoons. The cold makes it very hard to get the top off, so yesterday morning the bucket came in to warm up. Probably it would make more sense to bring it in every night, I don't know.
I suggested we should sneak the van around back and use it as a shed, but Eor nixed that idea. It wasn't really meant in earnest, because when the ground thawed in the spring we'd be unable to get it back out without severe damage to the lawns, which would be expensive. I don't want to be That Guy.
Eor has spent a lot of time, lately, designing what we want in our next house, and I really liked what he came up with last night, though of course the likelihood is that we will see a house we are attracted to for sale and jump on it, whether it is anything like our stated goals or not. He found one in Waldoboro or some such place, yesterday, that had something like 16 acres of land for a little over $300K. Which, the commute would be completely inconvenient for me at present, but if I could transfer to Rockland it could work. They have an opening in Rockland at the moment, but I believe it's for a male. (They have so few staff there that they actually have to designate the lines in order to keep the male/female ratio at roughly 50/50.) And it's for a slightly more responsible position than I have at the moment, but in Rockland I think I could do it. And I have a lot of family there, so I'm very interested in the opportunity to be closer.
I have put my compost bucket outside the back door, and am trying to get the top on tightly against any local raccoons. The cold makes it very hard to get the top off, so yesterday morning the bucket came in to warm up. Probably it would make more sense to bring it in every night, I don't know.
I suggested we should sneak the van around back and use it as a shed, but Eor nixed that idea. It wasn't really meant in earnest, because when the ground thawed in the spring we'd be unable to get it back out without severe damage to the lawns, which would be expensive. I don't want to be That Guy.
Eor has spent a lot of time, lately, designing what we want in our next house, and I really liked what he came up with last night, though of course the likelihood is that we will see a house we are attracted to for sale and jump on it, whether it is anything like our stated goals or not. He found one in Waldoboro or some such place, yesterday, that had something like 16 acres of land for a little over $300K. Which, the commute would be completely inconvenient for me at present, but if I could transfer to Rockland it could work. They have an opening in Rockland at the moment, but I believe it's for a male. (They have so few staff there that they actually have to designate the lines in order to keep the male/female ratio at roughly 50/50.) And it's for a slightly more responsible position than I have at the moment, but in Rockland I think I could do it. And I have a lot of family there, so I'm very interested in the opportunity to be closer.
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