TB:" home grown "
>How is the home remodeling coming ?
...just got back from the attorney - getting all this @!#$%*&!! paper work! In Texas, you get this "Homestead" Property Tax reduction if'n your property is where ya live - so had to file all these papers to get that done. I don't know anything about real estate, Berney (^_^)
The accountants/lawyers are telling me that an Estate Tax audit is de rigueur; that we get some kinda tax break if we "live" here for 2+ years, before selling this property, and so on and so forth. So now I got a California driver's license with a Texas address on it! They've already called me for Jury Duty, can you believe? Guilty! We filed some kinda papers to get something called an "early review" or settlement of the Estate taxes, but they wrote back saying that I had sent them the wrong form or something - so it goes.
Else, MadameGonzo has been re-planting the grounds, which are looking great with all this rain + hot sun weather we're getting - in fact, it looks like a rain forest around here! I keep hauling stuff away, by the truck-load, man - to charities and to the City Dump, and still there's all this stuff to deal with. Ya just can't throw away stuff like childhood toys, and so all us children been stuffing it all away at Mom&Dad's place for all these years. Now that we are Mom&Dad, we got all this stuff !
Meanwhile, Gonzo's been learning about the joys of plumbing and air conditioner repair work {grin} not to mention the "magic" solution of Clorox + soap&water to scrub down the mildew/molds that grow in this super-humid Houston clime. And oh yeah - there's all these critters, little insects that eat away at your house if you don't have a routine maintenance of all these poison-sprays. Sheesh!
The really, really fun part Berney will be after we sell this house, going back to San Francisco, where it costs $300 grand to buy a rat-shack with no garage or garden. Paris is looking kinda cheap by comparison...
...but the problem with the EU is that there's no food! Forget a modern military; kee-rist man, they can't even bottle CocaCola over there (^_^)
-Steve |
