moneypitmike

Nice. 84/60 here.. Could be worse.

Yeah---we've taken that into account on our list price.

Hey, I can't help but think of Kevin......with the house hitting the market, we're installing! If we go to a place with central air, there's going to be a bunch of window units hitting Craigs List.

Yes. What a difference in highs: Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Pit 1 82 88 92 92 83 Pit 2 70 74 79 79 76

Overnight A slight chance of drizzle. The drizzle could be heavy at times. Patchy dense fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 59. South wind around 5 mph. Sunday Scattered showers, mainly after 5pm. Patchy dense fog before 10am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 69. South wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Sunday Night Showers and thunderstorms likely before midnight, then scattered showers between midnight and 3am. Cloudy, with a low around 59. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming northeast after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Monday Mostly sunny, with a high near 74. North wind 5 to 10 mph. Monday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 55. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm. Tuesday Mostly sunny, with a high near 70. Huh??

Looks like a foggy/misty 63* at Pit2 with progged highs in the mid 70's all week. World of difference from the sunny 81* here in ORH.

One of his best was Apocalypto. Tremendous.

Thanks for posting this! It's a little surprising that it took an Australian to come up with the best movie on the time. Like him or now, Mel makes great movies.

It's only 1.5%, but they drop it to 1% if they broker your next purchase within 3 months. We've always used traditional realtors. I had been impressed with their marketing of homes since they came on the scene (I'm always looking at houses even if I'm not in a buying situation). Among the things I noticed was the accuracy of their estimates with the ultimate purchase prices of homes. IIRC, their estimate on our current house ended up being pretty darn close to what we ended up getting it for. Since that time, they've upped it significantly--I'm guessing in response to the low number of houses currently on the market. I did a really broad search yesterday of houses in ORH regardless of Zip Code that had 4+ bedrooms and 3+ baths and a price greater than $400k. Even with that broad a search (all Zip Codes and a really only came up with 10 houses. If your familiar with the city, there are a ton of huge circa 1900 homes that (ours in 1917) so seeing that few active is really telling. I hope that their estimate of Pit2 is right. They now have it nearly double what we paid for it in 2015 or 16. Last week, we actually got a letter from a PWM realtor who was representing a couple from MA who wanted to know if we'd sell it. We didn't even ask what they'd be willing to pay. That's where I'm hoping to live my remaining time beginning in a few years. Buying that one was easily the best financial decision we'll like to make in our lifetime. I'll update you on RF once this sells.

Yeah. Looking to get out of the city life. Not sure where we'll land. I'm guessing Southborough or Westborough (my wife's from there). I'm hoping we might wind up in Princeton, but I don't think that's especially likely. Great interest rates in any case.

Thanks. It’s a sellers market for sure. Hopefully one of the buyers will be for us. We’re nit going to rush unnecessarily to a new one—want to be happy with where we land. The good news in that is I might get to spend some time at Pit2, my happy place.

And it begins.

When does the drought start back up? July 1, 2020 RESERVOIR LEVELS: The Quabbin Reservoir, the largest water supply source for 47 communities in the Metro Boston area, is currently at 96.8% of its 412 billion-gallon maximum capacity. The 65 billion-gallon Wachusett Reservoir is 91.6% full.

Is that why they're called "ears" of corn?

Well, we had a few hours of sun.....now into overcast.

Thanks for posting that.....I hadnt' looked at anything other than the sunny blue sky and thought "that's a helluva way to run a crappy day". I worked for an IA company for a dozen years so spent a lot of time in Cedar Rapids. Worst humidity in the summer ever, and nut-retracting cold in the winter.. You'd get about a week on either end of the extremes where it was actually comfortable.

Elevation snow spot in winter.

We'll call it a 4 for 4. Sounds like Hall of Fame numbers. Who knows, maybe we can eek out a bonus day tomorrow. Missed out on the big rains, had to settle for a paltry 2.05" (so far). And I'll say again, I am NOT the one on this board who calls for 'days and days of snow'. I'll give you three guesses who does though. Looks like no big heat in the short term. Peek of climate temps less than 3 weeks away. We move.on.

Sprinkler getting it done.

I had rented one from Taylor rental.....pretty much a one-and-done deal when I needed it.

I rented a lawn edger for the weekend. It did a pretty good job on the front walkway, probably added close to a foot of width and I didn't break any pavers in the process. The edge around the city sidewalk is a different story. The yard had really spilled onto the side walk so while the edge did a fairly good job at separating cement from the yard, I now need to go back through and clear the overgrowth that is sill on the sidewalk. The funny thing is i used a snow shovel to pick up the stuff that l used the blower for, and for clearing the sidewalk, I'm going to try using an ice scraper. I didn't need these in January and February, but Memorial Day weekend? Break out the winter equipment.

I went to buy a blower for my post-mowing clean up. I ended up coming back with a nice back-pack blower instead. I'm ready for fall clean-up.

Thanks--timing notwithstanding, does a broad-leaf fertilizer work as well?

Pictures are better than reality.

I had used some starter fertizer (I had overseeded in the back) over a month ago. The back in particular has a lot of leafy crap growing in it. So, I was thinking some type of weed/feed might do the trick. Or some broad-leaf weed stuff. I think there's a mix of crap I'm trying to rid. Forutnatley, I don't think crabgrass is an issue.