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Marlin39 said:
It sold last year for $1,300,000 or $962sq/ft + $11,000 per year in property taxes + $320 monthly HOA fees
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That just seems crazy to me!

Even after you paid that 1.3 million off, you would still have to set aside 1150.00 aside a month to pay for the HOA and property taxes, and that wouldn't include anything to maintain the home.

Guess I will continue to put up with 4 months of winter (which rally haven't been that bad the last decade or so) here in Northern Illinois.
 
I'm on a road trip for the past week and way out in Idaho at the moment. A few snippits from the road:
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Traveling through North Dakota and into Montana. The Great Northern 2-8-2 is in Williston not far from Montana border.
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Former Butte, Anaconda and Pacific diesel.
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Last one is in the Rockies on US2
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migalyto said:
That just seems crazy to me!

Even after you paid that 1.3 million off, you would still have to set aside 1150.00 aside a month to pay for the HOA and property taxes, and that wouldn't include anything to maintain the home.

Guess I will continue to put up with 4 months of winter (which rally haven't been that bad the last decade or so) here in Northern Illinois.
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We sold it 1999 and moved up I-80 to Applegate. We were 2,000 ft up, 8 miles from a grocery store, in "wilderness wildfire area", and it sold in 5 weeks for $5k more than it was listed. We were there for less than 4 years before my wife accepted a transfer to OR. We were never so happen to get back to concrete and street lights.
 
Well got up early this morning and finished up the roof over our patio. Now have a cover over the grill and we can finally get the hot tub out there and use it.

Finished around noon so we kinda beat the heat. Here’s some pictures of the finished area.

Came out pretty good, I drew it up on sketchup, got materials and within 3 weekends it’s done.

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kgstakes said:
Well got up early this morning and finished up the roof over our patio. Now have a cover over the grill and we can finally get the hot tub out there and use it.

Finished around noon so we kinda beat the heat. Here’s some pictures of the finished area.

Came out pretty good, I drew it up on sketchup, got materials and within 3 weekends it’s done.

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Pretty cool...but you might want to get rid of that Anaconda sneaking under the deck, for two reasons...
 
kgstakes said:
Well got up early this morning and finished up the roof over our patio. Now have a cover over the grill and we can finally get the hot tub out there and use it.

Finished around noon so we kinda beat the heat. Here’s some pictures of the finished area.

Came out pretty good, I drew it up on sketchup, got materials and within 3 weekends it’s done.

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Nicely done
 


Good evening at 5:50 CDT. It’s been a nice day but in the last couple of hours the sun has finally appeared.

Sitting on the front porch and supervising the grandson cutting the lawns I been hearing but not seeing some different aircraft noise. Well with the clouds gone I now can see what the strange sounds are. It’s EAA AirVenture week starting tomorrow in Oshkosh, Wi and it’s a huge event in airplane society. I know I have seen a few propeller driven war birds and at least 3 bi-planes flying in formation. I have the camera ready to capture some pictures as the smart phone is tough to find aircraft in the skies. This should be an every day thing for the next 8 days or so as they do back and forth. Had a B-52 land in Madison a few years ago at Truax Field which is the National Guard base at the Dane County Airport. We are 12 miles from the airport but it was fairly easy to see as it climbed over our house. Many visitors in planes to Oshkosh will stay in different areas overnight because this week you can’t get rooms in Oshkosh or anywhere in the Fox Valley north of Milwaukee to Green Bay. They sleep here and fly to Oshkosh and come back that night.

I love aircraft
 
Evening all,

Been a bad day pain wise. Thought it would be a good idea to get off the narcotics...nope.
I guess the nerve blocks finally wore off. Have first pt in the morning, same therapist I had last year. Starting to get a little black and blue, but that is\was expected. Under excessive heat warnings though the middle of the week, and the talking heads think it will be extended.
Not being excessive with moving around, but the more I can do, the less bad side effects that can happen. Pain is my limit, and most of it comes across as cramping.

Have a good evening all.
 
Patrick said:
Evening all,

Been a bad day pain wise. Thought it would be a good idea to get off the narcotics...nope.
I guess the nerve blocks finally wore off. Have first pt in the morning, same therapist I had last year. Starting to get a little black and blue, but that is\was expected. Under excessive heat warnings though the middle of the week, and the talking heads think it will be extended.
Not being excessive with moving around, but the more I can do, the less bad side effects that can happen. Pain is my limit, and most of it comes across as cramping.

Have a good evening all.
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Feel better soon!
 
EAA claims the Samaritan's Purse DC-8 is the last known airworthy example of it's type.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1946963088403517638

Maybe they mean the specific sub-type?


Wikipedia says this

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As of January 2024, two DC-8s are in commercial service with Congolese cargo airline Trans Air Cargo Service.[<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2024)">citation needed</span></a></em>] These are DC-8-62 9S-AJG and DC-8-73 9S-AJO.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC-8#cite_note-51"><span>[</span>51<span>]</span></a>

OB-2231P remains flying with Skybus Jet Cargo of Peru, having been recently returned to service in February 2025.[<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2025)">citation needed</span></a></em>]

In the United States, the DC-8 has been retired from commercial service entirely; only one example still flies, N782SP, operated by Samaritan's Purse (a religious humanitarian relief organization). It is a DC-8-72 Combi acquired from Air Transport International in 2015.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC-8#cite_note-52"><span>[</span>52<span>]</span></a>

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Douglas DC-8 - Wikipedia

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santafewillie said:
Chad - The specs on your windows look good, although a bit of overkill, so I would just recommend full solar screens or the blinds or drapes that you already posted.
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I just wish I had had the cash to get the next level up of window specs from the company. The house is built as close to "Passive House" as possible and works as a system. Avoiding energy loss lessens the need for energy to be put into the system and makes it easier to run with the geo thermal heat pump, solar, etc...

It appears our daily energy usage from the grid is between 25 and 30 kwh (probably closer to 30). This does not include allowance for overage that we push out to the grid (ie, it shows yesterday we pulled around37 keg from the grid and pushed out around 18-19kwh to the grid -- it was pretty cloudy part of the day -- tuedsat it shot we pulled about 28 kWh and pushed about 24 kwh). And it ignores our own production that we use ourselves -- ie, during the day our pull from the grid is often 0 with small spikes... This is running cooling, hot water, ERV (fresh air circulation), and everything else we have in the house like lights, appliances, computers, etc. This has been with temps mostly highs of low 90s to 100 during the day and getting down to upper 60s to low 70s in the middle of the night).

I'm not paying to certify "Passive House" but we've done as much as possible to get there. I figure I had money at time of building but when I am old and decrepit and on a fixed income I won't have the cash for big utility bills so I wanted to make it as cheap to run as possible, energy wise...

I did buy two roller blinds at HD. The Taupe ones were marked down from $68 or some dumb price to $18 so that's what I got for the polyester fabric with the thermal backing ones instead of the el cheap vinyl ones I went in for. Some day I want to put cellular shades in and repurpose these to other windows like garage or something but for now I need to spend 30 minutes to get them hung...

We have some nice double thick cellular shades in the bedrooms, but the rest of the house does not yet have window coverings.
 


chadbag said:
EAA claims the Samaritan's Purse DC-8 is the last known airworthy example of it's type.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1946963088403517638

Maybe they mean the specific sub-type?


Wikipedia says this

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As of January 2024, two DC-8s are in commercial service with Congolese cargo airline Trans Air Cargo Service.[<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2024)">citation needed</span></a></em>] These are DC-8-62 9S-AJG and DC-8-73 9S-AJO.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC-8#cite_note-51"><span>[</span>51<span>]</span></a>

OB-2231P remains flying with Skybus Jet Cargo of Peru, having been recently returned to service in February 2025.[<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2025)">citation needed</span></a></em>]

In the United States, the DC-8 has been retired from commercial service entirely; only one example still flies, N782SP, operated by Samaritan's Purse (a religious humanitarian relief organization). It is a DC-8-72 Combi acquired from Air Transport International in 2015.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC-8#cite_note-52"><span>[</span>52<span>]</span></a>

en.wikipedia.org

Douglas DC-8 - Wikipedia

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1 of 1 or 1 of 4 is still pretty rare, either way.
 
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