choosing the new HOOD
It is cold! What happened to the sun? Just when we're deciding to take a break from our labors by getting on the bike and heading to Ocean Shores! Our plans for 10 days in Hawai'i around August 12 have been changed and we're just hanging out here doing work!! Wes is out mowing the lawn and I'm cleaning.
Yesterday we were out looking at houses and will probably see about looking at a few more later on this afternoon. We're starting to see that you can't tell a house by its picture. We went into one neighborhood. First hint should be that the power and phone boxes were all "tagged" with graffitti. Then there were all those speed bumps to slow cars down. Kids were playing on the bumps. Teens with do rags and shorts pulled down with BVD's showing came by the car and greeted us as we went over the bumps, "Howsit going?" They said. There were cars on blocks and parked in the middle of front yards. Just when I told Wes I felt we were back in NALO COUNTRY we passed a parked car with a "Waimanalo" bumper sticker!! Maybe the house we were looking for was nice, but all I can remember was us trying to get there!
So I think Dash and Brown's Points sounds good. Parts of both areas remind me of what we call "Bumerton Town" (around downtown Bremerton). BIG teen girls with bellies hanging out of their low rise jeans, smacking gum sitting at the side of the road. Old houses, tar paper showing on the exterior walls, and then new houses just another block away. The house we saw would have been nice all on its own, even had curb appeal and a 3rd car garage separate from the double. But all up and down the street was the same house. It was a street that could be busy, and cars were parked all along both sides at 9 p.m.
Now when I look at pictures I look for established trees, maybe a green belt. I hope for good square footage, natural gas, some hardwood floors, a 5 piece bathroom or a hot tub, vaulted ceilings, parking for family and friends and a place to work on motorcycles with space for a woodshop. I know we're getting picky in our old age, but I think there is something like this out there for us! It's funny too, because when we look, I think about Konia's house!
Yesterday we were out looking at houses and will probably see about looking at a few more later on this afternoon. We're starting to see that you can't tell a house by its picture. We went into one neighborhood. First hint should be that the power and phone boxes were all "tagged" with graffitti. Then there were all those speed bumps to slow cars down. Kids were playing on the bumps. Teens with do rags and shorts pulled down with BVD's showing came by the car and greeted us as we went over the bumps, "Howsit going?" They said. There were cars on blocks and parked in the middle of front yards. Just when I told Wes I felt we were back in NALO COUNTRY we passed a parked car with a "Waimanalo" bumper sticker!! Maybe the house we were looking for was nice, but all I can remember was us trying to get there!
So I think Dash and Brown's Points sounds good. Parts of both areas remind me of what we call "Bumerton Town" (around downtown Bremerton). BIG teen girls with bellies hanging out of their low rise jeans, smacking gum sitting at the side of the road. Old houses, tar paper showing on the exterior walls, and then new houses just another block away. The house we saw would have been nice all on its own, even had curb appeal and a 3rd car garage separate from the double. But all up and down the street was the same house. It was a street that could be busy, and cars were parked all along both sides at 9 p.m.
Now when I look at pictures I look for established trees, maybe a green belt. I hope for good square footage, natural gas, some hardwood floors, a 5 piece bathroom or a hot tub, vaulted ceilings, parking for family and friends and a place to work on motorcycles with space for a woodshop. I know we're getting picky in our old age, but I think there is something like this out there for us! It's funny too, because when we look, I think about Konia's house!
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