Mucho Good Vibes Needed...
 

...so my family and I can sell our house and buy this one.

As if things aren't crazy enough here on the threshold of Festival time, something we work all year to help produce, we are now frantically cleaning out our house and preparing to paint and patch so that we can sell it. Tomorrow, my wife and kids are going to look at it a second time while I await the delivery of a 16' PODS container to my driveway into which will go everything we don't absolutely *need* for the next 2-3 months. Then, upon returning from Fest, we will feverishly paint and repair as cheaply as possible and hope that the sellers, who are split up due to relocation of the husband out of state and who have had the place on the market since October of last year, will accept our contingency offer.

Why am I telling you all of this? Because I believe implicitly in the power of *intent* and the force of human energies, and I would like you all to take a good look at this place, and then send me and mine all the positive vibes you can spare. We need this place, if for no other reason than the nifty "guest house" out back in which my eldest son, who is cognitively disabled, can continue to live independently, but close by. Also, it would keep my wife from going stir crazy in the 1,000 square foot ranch house we've long since outgrown.

Think good thoughts for me, folks.

Patrick, that's a nice looking house! I love the idea of a guest house in back. Sending good vibes you way right now...

Best intentions and wishes are being sent your way.
Let me know if you need anything in particular sent your way.

Kellie

My first impression of the house was that it is beautiful. Then I started to really appreciate the lines and the structure. Like the stair case in the guest house and the comfy lines of the big houses bedroom.


I hope your son gets this gift. How precious.




I got lots of positive energys to send :) I wish you the best!

ohh, mine are on the way!!! Its a lovely place.

Good Luck 'spode

Many good thoughts are on their way to you from here in Kansas. I hope that you can get the house, it is beautiful and you deserve it. Good luck!!!

Got my fingers crossed for ya! :fingerx:

I'm in on the vibe party...especially if you put some color into the new place, once you own it :).

*makes mental note to think of you often until I hear good news*

Positive thoughts are coming your way!

A guest house too....... and now I know the address! Schweet..... I'm packing my bags!

Rock on Splode !!!!
That looks like a NICE house !!!!!!
Good Vibes comeing at ALL YA !!!!

Nice, let us know how the cleaning/sale/move-in/redecorate progresses.

The place looked like a great value to me before I even got to the guest house pics - lots of luck with it Patrick.

Patrick, it's as good as done.

That is an awesome deck/backyard hillock. I see you and yours peacefully, happily enjoying it.

That would cost you two million easy in CA, lol.

Good vibes sent :)

I’m pickin’ up good vibrations
It's giving me excitations
I’m pickin’ up good vibrations
(oom bop bop good vibrations)
It's giving me excitations
(oom bop bop excitations)
Good good good good vibrations
(oom bop bop)
It's giving me excitations
(oom bop bop excitations)
Good good good good vibrations
(oom bop bop)
It’s giving me excitations
(oom bop bop excitations :grouphug:

I also have a son that is ED. I wish you the absolute best and I'm wishing vibes for the people coming to buy it. No nonsense vibes. Just let them walk in....see it, take it and sign for it.

Good luck

Good vibes sent. They should arrive shortly. Lemme know if I can help in any way.

Nice house, man. So when's the first Cellar GTG at the new place?

Wife and kids just left to meet the realtor and show the kids the place...and probably to make an offer. Meanwhile, I am heading outside to clean off the driveway and await the POD delivery.

First Cellar GTG in the Fall. I hope to have a fire pit by then, as I believe outdoor burning to still be legal in Greenwood.

Beautiful home!! I'm wishing you fantastic luck and a smooth purchase/sale.


I'm so jealous...shhh.

Stormie

for what it's worth.. I'll send you what positive energies I can spare

more good vibes on the way..... :D

Local POD truck parked across the street today. Gave me another excuse to think of you and yours. Oom.

The POD thing is pretty cool. I'd never seen one in action before today.

I'm in massive pain. Spent the whole day working in the yard, and if you'd ever seen my yard, you'd understand. I bought a brand new chainsaw chain last night, and it is now dull. I tried to cut down a volunteer tree of some sort, and it was *so* goddamn sappy that the new chain just puked and died. Now I have two chains to drop off for sharpening tomorrow.

I also learned that gas powered weedeaters, particularly my 30cc Bolens straight shaft model, scatter shrapnel in the form of small rocks and such, which chew up bare legs rather nicely. I did wear safety glasses however. I'm stupid, not insane.

Front yard is pretty much shipshape, now on to the back in the coming week. Meantime, we're going to watch "Rent" while we sort through our old VHS tapes to pull out the rare stuff in preparation for giving all the rest away to someone who hasn't made the jump to DVD yet.

You probably know this already, but greenwood doesn't burn that well.

ok I won't do it again.
/drift

I also learned that gas powered weedeaters, particularly my 30cc Bolens straight shaft model, scatter shrapnel in the form of small rocks and such, which chew up bare legs rather nicely. I did wear safety glasses however. I'm stupid, not insane.
I just got a 4 stroke weed eater , STRONG !!!! But Damn it hurts when whearing shorts !!!
Best of luck to ya ,
If I can help in ANY way just let me know !!!

I like the master hot tub. 5 bedrooms for $200k? Wow. In Philadelphia area you might be able to still get a row home for that.

Belated good vibes from Scotland on their way. Hope it all works out for y'all.

:destiny: I couldn't find a smiley that said "good vibes", but this one is destiny.

I have no idea why, either. But best of vibage your way.

It's gone up that much? I should find out what our place is worth these days.

I know Gambone Brothers built a metric assload of McMansions right next to the parcel we're on...I had a real estate agent and her client show up on my porch one Saturday morning (while I was coloring my hair) wanting to buy my backyard...since the McMansions essentially didn't have any.

By the way, anybody know if the Gambones are out of prison yet? They were supposed to go away for 37 months for tax fraud...:-)

Zippy, Elspode: you can't weed-whack wearing shorts. Honest; I've tried. And I still have a scar on my shin from the time a lawn mower picked up a stone about the size of a .22 and flung it at me. Was moving so fast I didn't even feel the pain...immediately.

Hi Els -- got all digits crossed here for a good outcome! I was planning to go to HSF this year but must go to Albuquerque for bidness :( . Oh well, maybe next time... but a GTG sounds like a happenin' deal!

Thanks for bumping this thread back up again. Move vibes heading your way. That house is as good as yours.

Dammit! I wish you would come to Fest. There's damn few Cellarites within reasonable driving distance of Gaea, and meeting some of you there would be awesome! Besides, this is my last year as a mucky muck. I'm just going to be one of the rank (really rank) and file for awhile.

Add another wild card to our current crazed mix. We received a call last night from my mother in law, informing us that Mrs Elspode's grandfather was beginning hospice care this morning. It is entirely possible that he could pass on very soon, and we'll have to drop everything to be there. I don't mean to sound callous...I love and respect this man very much, and wouldn't dream of not being there when he takes his last ride, but this couldn't possibly come at a worse time.

I now have to write up a contingency plan to cover my absence from Festival at any time - before, during, and after. This means getting out of my head an onto paper dozens of facts, notions, inspirations, possible pitfalls, etc, etc and into the hands of my appointed minions, who will have to take over for me at a moment's notice. Additionally, the guy who was in charge of the Festival brochure (which includes workshop scheduling) has majorly dropped the ball and left most of my Honored Guest Speakers off of the schedule, so I am now going to have to produce posters and handbills to update the damn brochure. Finally, the 15 year old begins his new job today, and so we have to run him back and forth to work from now until we go to Camp for Fest setup, all the while still being down one car to breakdown.

And we're still trying buy/sell houses and move.

Last year at this time, Mrs Elspode and I were only remodeling one room and moving our office from the old room into the new. This year, we've raised the bar a bit...or rather, had it raised for us.

Next year, I'm thinking of starting a manned space program or perhaps forming an independent nation. You know, something a bit less strenuous and time-consuming.

Sunkist Orange Soda taste sensations . . .

Count me in.:thumb:

I'd be willing to run the moonbase mining and habitat construction...

good vibrations btw

When you really be building a super duper accelerator collider.:smack:

He needs a Mini Me first ;)

And sharks...... with fricken laser beams. :smack:

I'm really good at unpacking and decorating - for your new nation of course.

Are you kidding me? Holy crap!!! That house is awesome. The price listed can't be right. You can't buy the guest house in CA for $200,000.

Yeah, but around here, a family of four can live on $60,000 a year...you can't do that in California. Hell, you can't even get your car worked on for that in California.

Hang in there, 'spode. Keep making lists, writing it down. If it's all going through your head so's you can't sleep, write it all down so it's there for you in the morning. Wishing you the Best of British Luck!

How about a really angry sea bass?

i'm sending you powerful daimoku.

The offer on the house has been sent. Our place is in total disarray as we now set the house issue on "pause" for nine days.

My camp is set up for festival. I just finished making an addendum to the festival brochure and the schedules it contains which was completely and utterly hosed by the guy whose job it was to do it this year (interestingly, the same guy who raked my wife over the coals for a couple of relatively minor errors last year when she did it). I have purchased appropriate clothing for myself and the kids for going out of town for two days of funeral festivities tomorrow and Wednesday.

Gods willing, I will return to Camp late Wednesday night to resume that part of my insanity, with Fest's official beginning on Thursday. Somewhere in all of this, I need to go by my band rehearsal site and get my guitar and drum...

Next year...I'm relaxing, I swear.

Wow, I can't stop thinking about that house. I really hope you get it. I've been thinking about moving to Montana or Wyoming (Idaho is nice but too many white supremacists)

I wish I could make my current salary, but live over there. I have thought about buying some land and building an earthship.

If you're not familiar with earthships, they are bio-friendly/self-sustaining houses. You should check them out.

http://www.earthship.org

Never mind the earthship, you're going to congress.;)

I hope so, but I've got to raise more money. I need to get $3,000 before the end of June. The Republican Liberty Caucus is interested in me, and hopefully I can get some gun groups and tax groups behind me too.

I am late (shame faced) to this, but all the good vibes your way, els. You are a wonderful fellow and deserve good things--the Universe knows this.

As for Radar--dude, I really hope you DO win a Congressional seat even though you called me all sorts of names that we cannot re-print in a family newspaper. I hope you win so that you can SHAKE THEM UP and MAKE THEM SWEAT. If someone ran on that platform, I'd vote for them*.


*never voted for James Traficant

Thanks Brianna. I know if I'm elected, C-SPAN will become one of the most popular channels. But let's not forget that this thread is for Elspode. Let's hope the house is his. I love that house. I wish I could convince my wife to move out of California.

You're thinking of Richard Simmons. ;)

That looks like a nice place Ep. Here's my contribution of positive energy/ expectation for you.

:thumb:

Positive energy was never my strong suit though. And...if negative thoughts and energy made actual visible results, most everyone that I've ever worked with would be long dead.

But seriously....I hope this works out for you.

Nice photo in the member photos section too.

How's Mrs Elspode, and the grandgrandkiddies?

Has anyone thought that Ep and Toad sorta look alike?

And that maybe they are the same person?


OK, I just needed another post to hit 2000.

No, Undertoad is talented and motivated. I just *am*.

Mrs. Elspode is doing quite well, and as for grandkiddies...well, I have but the one, and we enjoyed spending some time with him during the Pagan Festival last weekend.

About half of our posessions are now boxed and in the POD in the driveway. We are going to pause now, and clean up what we have, preparing to begin painting/fixing up cosmetically our house to get it ready to show. Lot of work, here. AC evaporator shot craps and has to be replaced at a cost of $500, coincidentally the exact amount of money we had set aside for earnest money on the new place. Not sure how this will impact the deal, so please keep the good vibes coming, my friends.

... good vibes ... good vibes ...good vibes ...

Just hoping for an update, still thinking about you.

My house is in complete upheaval. PODS is full, and we are now beginning the paint and patch process. The owner of the prospective house is awaiting our earnest money deposit (probably this weekend), and we must have our house available to actively show before they'll accept the contingency.

Life is *extremely* stressful and difficult right now. There's so much going on that I haven't even really had time to write about it here. We're still on the beam, but it is going to be a lengthy process.

Luck to Ya ALL !!!
Any thing good is worth working for !!!