Alright, Razz, you have an extra bedroom? I'm movin in! Any available jobs at Lowes? :D

I love this thread. The last few commutes have been wonderful.

Here's my commute, right now:

Emerging from the bedroom
http://caseoriginalart.com/images/other/091007074.jpg

Make breakfast
http://caseoriginalart.com/images/other/091007077.jpg

Take shower
http://caseoriginalart.com/images/other/091007076.jpg

Through the laundry room
http://caseoriginalart.com/images/other/091007078.jpg

Toward my "office" (if you look, you can see my assistant has arrived before me)
http://caseoriginalart.com/images/other/091007080.jpg

I have arrived
http://caseoriginalart.com/images/other/091007081.jpg

Razz - maybe I missed it, but have you said in what part of the country you live? (The trees in your pictures remind me of those in Q's pictures. Are you in the same area?)

case - your office has some great daylighting. Is it heated? That cement floor looks cold.

Indeed, today, it is cold. But I have my high tech heating system set up, already:
http://caseoriginalart.com/images/other/091007.jpg

Awesome! Thanks everyone who has posted lately, these are so cool.

I'm from Pennsylvania...a few hours away from the home of the cellar though.

I instantly already like that painting case, how much ya want for it? :D
Fer yer question, only one bedroom...but my bed's pretty big...I'm a blanket hog though. Lowe's is always hiring. Always.

Thanks, razz! I can't sell that one, though...it was commissioned by my husband...which explains why I haven't finished it, yet.

Alas, I am a covers freak. I get grouchy if my covers aren't "just so." It's one of those case oddities. (hahahahahaha....me so funny!) :p

Bummer...oh well...I'll let ya know when I've got my own place/a spare room then :thumb:

Sweet! Sounds good. :D

I really missed this thread
Wonderful, wonderful - thanks to all

Case, I'm just as nosey about people's houses as I am their commutes, so thanks for the tour

Oh, thanks! I will do a better one, sometime.

That could be another good thread - house tour. But no fair cleaning up first.

Been there, done that! (Link to Cellar post)
I'd love to see other people's - I understand why many would prefer not to though

I know you've seen mine already SG - but it's easy to link. So there.

Wow, wow and twice around the carpark to come back in for another wow.
No, I hadn't seen it - how beautiful.

jinx - that's a great house. I particularly like the cat rug.

Is the house difficult to heat?

Thanks!

The house definitely has warm/cold spots. We keep thinking we'll put a wood stove in one of these days. Gotta build a chimney first...

There are some pellet stoves that can use through-the-wall vents. Or, if you have an old fireplace you might be able to get a wood or pellet insert. I put a pellet insert in mine and have a free-standing wood stove in the basement.

jinx - you guys have a beautiful place. I love the snow pictures.

Here is my morning commute to the shop as requested by Ms. Jinx. This is about a half-hour drive in all.. not counting deer or antelope crossing the roads at any given moment:

Starting at 15 minutes into the drive..
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/DSC_5024.jpg

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/DSC_5028.jpg

Getting closer to the mountains..
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/DSC_5030.jpg

And closer..
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/DSC_5032.jpg

Ranch dogs stay in the bed
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/DSC_5035.jpg

Onto the county road..
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/DSC_5040.jpg

The shop where we all meet in the morning and head out from there
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/DSC_5041.jpg

Noble Elk
 

I took this shot yesterday morning on my way to work. This is about a half-mile from my house.

O hai, an Iowa thread... Hmm... Nah, I can't defend it, not gonna try...

It's not really an Iowa thread (despite the title) - it's a commute thread.

Gorgeous picture, HLJ. Do they have rocks in Iowa?

All I read was the first post (I'm lazy like that), where LabRat was trying to dispel well-deserved Iowa stereotypes. It's not ALL corn, granted, but I live in the capital, and you can be in all-corn country within 10 minutes of anywhere in the city.

If we wanna talk about my commute though, it takes me through West Yuppie-burg, not much to share.

Yes, we throw them at minorities.

I keep a few in the glovebox to feed out of the sunroof at tailgaiters. . .

HLJ, looks like a good source of meat.

Elk cows average about 500 lbs, and I count about 40 just in that picture (which only shows part of the herd), so that's about 20,000 lbs. I don't know how much of that is meat.

Lotta burgers.

Hey Bullitt, Your commute is Beautiful. I guess because it is in stark contrast the the massive greenery here. Thanks for sharing.

Man I would love a bull elk tag.

A fair amount if you take the time to clean them correctly.

Pfft, that's what the natives did. It's decidedly un-American now.

BULL ELK, tis not. Who says?!?!? Very few bits can't be used for something. Let's eat!

Rode the bus to work today. It was a pretty successful trip. Carpooling, it takes about 25 minutes, minimum, to get to work. Today's trip took 95 minutes. To be fair, about 15 minutes on the front end was wasted waiting for the next bus. We live only a minute from the bus stop, so I could easily reduce this idle waiting time to close to zero. On the destination end, the (second) bus dropped me off about 20 minutes walk from the office. Perhaps there is a bus that would stop closer to the office; I haven't found it yet. But if it's waiting 20 minutes for the bus to relieve me from the burden of walking 20 minutes, then I'd rather walk.

So, minus the waiting time and walking time, the travel and transfer time on the bus is about 60 minutes, 35 minutes longer than the best case drive time of 25 minutes.

The cost of the ride was $1.75 for the city zone and another $1.00 to cross the lake, $2.75. That's about a dollar less than the gas cost, each way. So, conceivably, I could trade $2.00 per day savings for about an hour (minimum) extra commute time.

For me, this simplified view of the economics of my commute reveals that it's still a better deal to carpool than to ride the bus. I value my time more highly than $2.00 per hour. Other factors that could raise that value are the maintenance costs of driving, reduced hassle factor of riding (but when Tink's driving, I'm already a rider), and other real but difficult to quantify factors like saving the planet.

I say! If you're not being wasteful, you're not a real American, terrorist!

::gives dingle a long overdue public beating::

Can you feel the love now bitch?









:lol:

Wasn't that from The Lion King?

Lumber King.


Lumber.

Ridin the bus home too today. Report tomorrow.

I was investigating riding the bus to work. I would first have to drive 6 miles to the park and ride, then spend two hours on three buses. Or I could drive directly there in about 45 minutes.

(Google maps has a cool feature that links in to the Denver RTD routes.)

Public transportation is one of those things you have to plan around when you choose where to live. If you don't, it probably won't be convenient. When we bought our house, the first priority was that it be walking distance from a subway station. It was a trade off. We gave up other things to be this close.

:sniper: :apistola:

:shred:

Ooh, might do my commute home too, tonight!

Sometimes it would require choosing to live in a different city altogether though...

True. There is very little public transportation in towns like mine. Sometimes I think I wish there were busses, and subways...but growing up around here you get used to going where you want, when you want, on your own schedule. I imagine there are pros and cons, either way.

For the last few years I've been working from home one or two days a week. In my next job I'll be only going to the office one or two days a week and otherwise working from home. The distance is twice as far, though, so weekly fuel consumption and commute time will be about the same.

My husband is working something like this out with his employer, too. Right now, he has a hellish commute and the gas is going to kill us sooner than later. It appears employers are starting to warm up to more work from home time. I hope this trend continues.

HLJ, we considered the bus option, too, but it is similar to yours...2 hours on the bus and changing 3 times plus getting him to the bus stop. Lightrail should be here in a couple of years I think, but until then, the route is a little convoluted.

Is there a "Working from Home" (or similar) thread? If not, maybe I'll start one. (Actually, I think a whole "Working from Home" forum could be useful, if there are many here that are telecommuting.)

I haven't seen one. Go for it.

My commute home.
Could have been better. Of course as soon as I pick up a camera the world and his wife appears. Also it was very bright, which affected the picture quality.

That was fun! Thanks Sundae girl for showing us around :)

Absolutely charming!

I sometimes fantasize about living in a city. It would only work if I was single, though......so fuck that.

thanx for the walk, cherry, just the same. I likes it.

Married people don't live in cities?

Steve, there's a lot of lush green in your commute. This time of year, anyway.