Your post was very informative Joan and thank you very much. I know, too
picky, but after a lifetime of ice and snow that goes on for too many long
months, we feel we've earned the right to at least find the place that
suits us best. We have seriously considered getting a small rv when my
husband
reaches retirement age (but have been scouting ahead online) and just
driving all over our beautiful country, staying as long as we like in any one
place, and when we discover the place we just cannot bear to leave...that
will be the place. Oak trees, we have 8 of them that tower into the sky and
they create so much work for me, you cannot imagine how many tarp loads of
oak leaves that I drag to the curb every fall and they fall heavily for 2
solid months and then as if that isn't bad enough, we have the type of oaks
that do not completely drop all their leaves in the fall. Tons of leaves
stay on the trees and drop all winter long. I call them the gift that keeps
on giving. All winter, all snowy winter long too. I am not kidding when I
say the last oak leaf just dropped to the ground yesterday. I saw it.
One year when the kids were small, we had cuteest little dog that came
along and stayed for the duration of an afternoon of raking and he and my son
had so much fun jumping in the leaves, almost completely buried with only
their faces peering out of the leaves. I wonder if I can find those pics,
so cute.
Do you think the winds in Las Vegas are due to the desert atmosphere? We
still think, in spite of what I wrote about not moving to Las Vegas, that it
is a beautiful place. My daughter wants to move to Chicago, but I
wondered aloud to her if she wouldn't dislike the wind that seems to be
constant
there from what people say, but she's very young and not affected by things
we decide we would prefer to do without in our later years.
I love the block walls you have there, great to keep most predators out and
provide a source of privacy.
That's what we want: rocks in place of grass. We thought we could do away
with sprinkler system, but found out you have to have a drip underground
to water your gorgeous plants, of course, they would have to have a source
of water. Yes, we would love a gated community to help keep crime away from
our home. Even though we live in a nice neighborhood now, we have had
some pretty weird and frightening things happen over the years because we are
surrounded by many low-income areas.
What about snakes and scorpions? I saw a show on animal planet where a
family moved to Phoenix and they had scorpions invade their home and they just
could not get rid of them of them even though they had professional
exterminators come in several times. They had a baby that was just at crawling
stage, they were very worried it would be stung and in the end it was the
mother that was stung while she was sleeping and had to be hospitalized. I
've read the sting is very painful. I would hate to have my cats or an even
smaller body, a Chihuahua,stung, they're so small and wonder how they would
handle the venom.
Lynn
5/6/2011 1:07:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Well…your list reminds me of the one that I sent to the realtor here when
I was in California…most of the things that I wanted were inside the home,
though. But close to stores, doctors, and hospitals were the ones that
were exterior.
Well…let’s see what we do have that you don’t want:
We have the winds…but they come for a few days and then are gone. It is
not every day.
The oak trees…I have to see if they are drought tolerant…are you allergic
or just don’t want one?
