Bubbler86

Seeing the food pics makes me feel heavy. I work out and if I ate those meals, I would be gaining fast.

Nice 56 low this am. Dry though. Watering the flowers and plants back in play.

Safe travels and the memories are part of you now and though not all good, are life lived the best you could.

We have had Memorial day weather issues for years now. Seems to be bad timing each year. Water temp in OC, MD is only 58 so not like the beach is going to be filled with people getting in the water.

We are at least starting out on better footing, here is the drought map from one year ago. Now it is only D0 in Northern VA and Far East WV as to our closest drought designation vs. this map from last year.

Yea, worried the summer is starting slowly.

Sox still hold their own too...unrelated to the Birds.

Thanks, yes I would have the stuff between attic and ceiling sealed first. What I am worried with blown in is the mess AND I will need a new AC unit (blower in attic) eventually so that mess would get in the way. But the sealing worries such as off gassing or not giving the shingles enough air to breath is what has me worried. I wish I could just do batts but apparently that is not good enough. Did you do cellulose or fiberglass blow in?

Need attic insultation...Spray foam the bottom of the roof or blow in?

Yes, nothing is less confusing than the double negative "No, nothing".

Florida is coming to you instead of the other way around.

Rgem and 3K have an MCS tomorrow AM.

Glad I am mowed. LOL. One of the meso's forget which one, had rain over me at 4PM.

I saw the chance Friday and am away again Sat and Sun so was backed up against the wall. The grass was long. Mow 5 is done.

Looks like I am going to have to spend lunch hour mowing if I want to get rid of this grass any time soon.

Camp Hill...Jns2183 can hang 'em up local. Not sure tucked away is the right phrase though. Tucked Away In Pennsylvania, This Town Is America's #1 Retirement Haven (yahoo.com)

Except The Climate Changers area. 10K! I know a guy in Fairfax that has a 1.5 Mil house and his is "only" 12K. S Central PA is a PRIME retirement area. But if you like constant heat I understand the draw to Flo-Rida,

It is cloudy here in Ocala :-)

I once read Lanco and York county have the second highest population (per capita) of retirees outside Florida. Even more than AZ.

That was what Desantis was suggesting. The general feeling here with those that I spoke with is that they are considering moves to SC, NC, Ala and TN. Everyone knows the real estate is a huge bubble, and they want to get out.

Insurance is the big issue for people down here right now. It is all we are hearing about as we visit family. All but one were dropped by their carrier and had to switch to Citizens which is the insurer of last resort re: your wallet is not going to be happy. We have friends in Sarasota whose insurance is over 25K a year including the wind damage option...and their house is under 2000K sq feet. Lots of people, who do not have a mortgage, are chancing it with no insurance. It is forcing retirees to leave Florida. It snows in Jax about every 3-5 years for non accum! Accum is more rare. That may be more than Lanco had last year :-). Insurance is making some move to their cars which is crazy. 'Pay it, or roll the dice': Florida residents bunk in their cars as home insurance costs cripple people's finances (msn.com)

We were just searching for houses in Hanover 5 years ago and in our price range the highest taxes we saw were under 4K. This was the homestead price or whatever that is called in PA. I did see 6K taxes next to Tamaqua in Hometown. We were told it was due to the low density of people in the area so everyone had to make up the difference. Maybe we did not see any in your zip code/district. But having all real estate and school taxes under 3K was a requirement of our searching.

That is very high for stuff I am familiar with in PA. That is almost up to Fairfax County, VA levels but something like that is tough for a retiree regardless of location. 10K year means you are paying 800-900 a month even after the mortgage is paid off. For some it is no big deal, but the masses would have trouble affording that when retired.

Florida is stuck again just like they were in 2007 though to a lesser degree so far....people paid too high of a price for a home and between that and the interest rates, back to keys being handed back in again. The home insurance is one of the big issues as well with many people having to go with the state program because commercial companies will not cover them anymore. We saw a friend in Daytona last week, 1.5 blocks off the beach, and their home insurance is 8-9K a year.