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We seem to be on the southern edge of whatever is blowing through. Kind of getting rain off and on now. I added up the rain from Wednesday, Thursday, and today. We are up to approx. 2-1/4" so far. Still have another week of November, so we may catch up.
We got rain sometime on Thanksgiving morning, as the ground was wet when we went outside, but it did not rain all day.
I had a VA appointment this morning, they are going to order me a new scooter to get around on, at no cost to me (best part). IIRC it will look like this:
They did not have that exact model on hand, but a smaller one. This is from the website. due to my increasing weight, they had to order the second largest one they offer. Should be here in 3 weeks. Maybe I can put some Ford blue ovals on it. LOL, or the very least a Nor Cal chapter decal or two. Because I will be using it to get groceries from time to time, he is also ordering the optional rear basket for it.
It should, my old one is not as useful as it used to be due to the aging batteries. So, this should work out fine. We had rain again last night, but I was asleep so I don't know how long it rained. It was not much though as I never heard it.
It's great for the end of fire season around here. It's a huge relief. Now I need to start preparing for next season. I'm going to be more active working the adjacent property since it's about 15 feet from my carport that is against my garage. The last two seasons I've gone over and sprayed Round Up, but this year I'm going to add trimming of trees and elimination of bushes to a better radius. That property is a train wreck and I've never seen or heard from the owner, who inherited the train wreck from her father, the engineer of said train.
Here's some pictures of what is "next door." That lot is 150 feet wide and 1100 feet straight up a poison oak covered hill.
All this crap (ties, broken asphalt, broken concrete) is collapsing into my property.
The guy was quite the craftsman.
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You inherit money with the property. Party with guys who ride with ape hangers........ it's a slippery slope, greased with Harley's, crystal meth, and buckets of chicken. Okay. Maybe that's me. But I didn't inherit anything. My bike doesn't have ape hangers. I don't smoke crank. I just can't quit my love affair with The Colonel. I have bought enough buckets of chicken to send his kids to college.
I love KFC, especially their coleslaw, unfortunately, I cannot afford to eat there often. I don't know if my scooter would take too well to saddle bags, and I know my arms would get tired if I installed ape hangers. I saw a three wheeled scooter many months back when the wheelchair was still able to take me to Walmart, it looks like a scaled down three wheeled motorcycle, except it had no saddle bags and was driven by an elderly gentleman. I have seen ads for those and they are double the price of the one I am getting for free. I saw a YouTube video last night about a scooter/wheelchair called the Quingo which loads/unloads itself from your vehicle. Would be perfect for me except it is $6,999. LOL Same price as that scaled down 3 wheeler.
The problem with the inherited property as I see it, is that the property is not worth much due to the shape and especially the slope. I understand there are 30-40 thousand in back property taxes, and probably 40-50 thousand in excavating just to get all the broken asphalt and concrete out. Unless she had other means to get that kind of scratch together, she's in a bind. Once that is all done, hire an engineer/architect who specializes on hillsides, and then get a damn good retaining wall and grading company to get it where you can actually build something. At that point, more home design and a construction loan are in order. At the end of the day you'd be in it over a million dollars and still have no usable property due to the slope. You can buy an existing house for less. Oh, they've been asking $200k on and off for the two and a half years I've lived here. It really only makes sense for me to buy the lot as extended property since it's so close to my house. But, I don't have that kind of scratch. So, the property sits.
Another option is "Adverse Possession". If you build something or otherwise occupy the property for 5 years, you can make a claim for adverse possession, and become the new owner of the property. Sounds cruel and unusual, but it's happened.
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Should be here in 3 weeks. Maybe I can put some Ford blue ovals on it. LOL, or the very least a Nor Cal chapter decal or two. Because I will be using it to get groceries from time to time, he is also ordering the optional rear basket for it.
