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that I would just love to own! How about you?
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Nice spot. I would require a large shop out back for all the toys and a place to make them in, Wood Shop area, Blacksmithy, Machine shop and garage etc..
Oh, and a distilling shed.
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It's lovely as long as it's someplace where 'gators can't come ashore.
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It does look serene.
The serenity could be ruined though if there's a similar house right across the water. If I were looking for total serenity I'd want at least a
1⁄
4 to
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2 mile between me and a neighbor. That would be bliss.
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Florida has some cool houses. When I visited my sister a few months ago in Fla. I could not help but notice the 2.5 x 12" beams that were bolted together. The exterior walls were 2x10 with special windows and the interior walls were 2x6 old style the real 2" not the 1.5. A hurricane house with dbl everything. The apartment my Mother lives in at ground level was built around 12x12 "stilts" supporting the upper 2 floors, Guide wires 1/2" round are bolted to concrete footings at 6 places around the structure, with ceilings 12 ft and 10 ft tall. A veritable fortress. I have never seen anything like it around N.E. except a huge barn I know of in the middle of the state that is still used to this day.
And yes a canal along side it. My sisters son waterskies out to the lake from there. Gators aren't that bad I guess but you could never convince me of that. I heard them things clicking out there at night.
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(09-15-2013, 08:30 PM)Maggot Wrote: Gators aren't that bad I guess but you could never convince me of that. I heard them things clicking out there at night.
I think they are everywhere down there. Of course they aren't but it doesn't keep me from thinking it. I have a picture of one outside my Mom's front door and because it was over a certain size they had to call a 'gator wrangler to come and remove it. I couldn't live like that.
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I heard one in the canal out back a couple nights ago, sounded like he was under my neighbors dock. Haven't seen him yet.
His ass will be in the pot if I get a chance at him