OT: Our house is a very,very very fine house(11-14 update)

[Okie bipap]

BTW I got a job! Yay!

Congratulations. Finally, some good news.

[babydinosnoreless]

Thank you everyone for the congrats. I would thank you all individually but I do not want to derail Zonkers thread further or use up extra space in the servers. Also you're welcome Pugsy. Meant to answer you sooner but I forgot ! DS that was hilarious.

Back to Zonkers thread I want pictures !

[ChicagoGranny]

BTW I got a job! Yay!

Congratulations!

Is it something you want to do long term?

[babydinosnoreless]

Congratulations!

Is it something you want to do long term?
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Ok I will hijack Zonkers thread just a little longer. Sorry Zonker. Thank you and good question CG. I hope I like it well enough to stick to retirement. Its a pharmacy tech at a call center for a big retail pharmacy.

I miss teaching, every year when school starts my heart hurts a little bit. I don't think its enough to go back and get the requirements for Arizona. My teacher friends from here are all in agreement that the states rules and low pay make it a "sucky" place to teach.

When applying for the job I had to take an aptitude test.
I enjoyed and did well on the test, how that will translate into doing the actual job remains to be seen. I enjoy talking to people and I enjoy detail work so crossing fingers. Also keep your fingers
crossed we don't get locked down again. Its starting to look like that might happen and if it does I don't know if my start date will get pushed back or if it will fall under essential services.

[Okie bipap]

I wouldn't worry too much about derailing Zonker's thread. He has derailed his share of other people's threads. And yes, I've hijacked my share of them too.

[babydinosnoreless]

I wouldn't worry too much about derailing Zonker's thread. He has derailed his share of other people's threads. And yes, I've hijacked my share of them too.

I'm not too worried but I really do want to see those pictures he keeps promising. The Pacific Northwest looks beautiful! I'm a desert rat but when its 116 outside pictures of all that green outside are welcome.

[jnk...]

Pacific Northwest . . . desert rat

There's always Yakima. Or Walla Walla.

[Revived1]

Looking forward to seeing the pics of how your house is coming along, Zonker! The scenery around it looks beautiful...looks like a very peaceful area.
Btw, it's very entertaining when you hijack your own thread. Thanks again for giving me a lot of laughs when I read your posts! Makes my day.

[zonker]

I'm not too worried but I really do want to see those pictures he keeps promising. The Pacific Northwest looks beautiful! I'm a desert rat but when its 116 outside pictures of all that green outside are welcome.

<grumble, mutter, snort>

working on it.

[zonker]

i think i'd rather take a beating than crop pictures. oh, my artistic integrity!

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first pic is the boss and his two trusty servants. make no mistake, i'm talking about the dog. oh and this was meant to be a reframing of a pic elissa took of us outside the house in flagstaff. didn't come out quite right.


2nd my blushing bride who appears to be flipping off the dog?!?!?

3rd carport, which is actually being mostly framed by the kids. how do they DO this stuff?

more pics in next post.

[zonker]

as promised-

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as built, the joint has a steel roof. (wife refers to this place as "le machine shoppe") so they take off the steel, dig out the insulation, put in new, cap it with plywood then put the steel roof back in. never had a steel roof before. i hope it's not noisey in the rain???

2nd is the two bedrooms on the carport side. note the fancy edition of a toilet in my room. i'm special!!!


3rd the laundry room, aka the junk room. i mean, c'mon. i'm not that tidy!

[zonker]

one last one-

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living room with the slanted view outside the picture window.

the day wasn't quite as bright and sunny as i'd hoped. there is this "thing" in the northwest regarding weather. it's true that it rains here copiously and seemly without surcease. BUT "normally", we see rain from approximately the first of september until late may. this makes summer very special here, because NO RAIN!! woo-hoo!

but every now and then, the rain continues into june, making things more like they are in january. wags call this "june-uary", har-har. well this year, it's more like "july-uary"!!

also, meant to take more interior shots. will try to remember that next week.

[jnk...]

Thanks, Zonker. Even if it did get us way back on topic.

Glad the wife set the dog straight; he stuck his tongue out at me in the first pic and mooned me in the second.

No better sleep happens than during rain coming down on a metal roof, in my opinion. One of the top ten most comforting sounds there are. Nature's original white noise.

But if for some reason you can't hear it, you can always play this all night: https://youtu.be/XpallRlzxPk

Almost fell asleep just posting it here.

[zonker]

No better sleep happens than during rain coming down on a metal roof, in my opinion. One of the top ten most comforting sounds there are. Nature's original white noise.

i grew up in a house my father built. for some reason i'll never understand, he and mom decided on using metal awnings over the windows.

i never could sleep through it.

but i'm told that there will be plenty of insulation and it shouldn't be noisey at.

we shall see.

[Midwest_non_sleeper]

Pacific Northwest . . . desert rat

There's always Yakima. Or Walla Walla.

I've spent many a sleepless night in the barren scrub brush of the Yakima training center, driving around in a Humvee trying to outflank Opfor.

It is most certainly a desert. I couldn't believe my eyes, because I was stationed at Lewis, but drove right through Snoqualmie and there was a freaking desert.

Also, in case anyone wondered, the M1 Abrams tank kicks up a whole lot of dust, sand and debris...especially when you're behind it in a rinky-dink Humvee.

Nice house Zonker, glad it's finally coming together.