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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (167194)	10/2/2008 1:11:38 AM
From: Naomi	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

I can agree with every thing you stated. We originally thought our piece of property would become a retirement home and our thought was to tear the little cottage down and build something a little larger to accommodate the children and grandchildren in the summers. I don't remember hurricanes being that frequent back then. Now they loom somewhere near often and having taken care of repairing when we did have them, it takes a lot of time and with the population growing leaps and bounds because of NASA and the Kemah Boardwalk, construction costs have almost gone out of sight. When we first bought it our taxes were not very high and now with the big school district taxing, those taxes are also going higher every year along with all the other taxes they thought of to get our money and grow the area. Our children are all grown and I wouldn't want to burden any one of them with the expenses we have on it. They are all busy with children in school and since that happened they don't always have a lot of time in the summer with their children's activities to go down there more than a weekend and sometimes just overnight. We had all the water toys to play with and they did have great times there. I regret the grandchildren and great grandchildren will not have it to enjoy, but that is just how it is. At some point in time their parents may have the funds to afford a second home and give them the benefits they enjoyed. Where is that claims adjuster who holds the key? Not dialing our phone number.... I loved to fish and crab off our pier but as I have grown older and having cancer and two TIA's weakened me, my balance is just not the best all the time and I would never go out there alone now, which I did all the time before. I always thought retiring there would be great even thinking if I lost my mate, it would be a place where I could enjoy till my time of demise happened. We spent every weekend down there and on the water sailing. My grandparents had a bay front home about twenty miles south of ours when I was growing up and I used to spend the summers down there with my Aunt. There were no other people around us there and I learned to entertain myself well on their two hundred foot pier. They had a beach which we don't have. Loved it and came back two weeks before school started looking very dark skinned from all the sun I got. Very lucky I have not ever had any skin cancer from it, very lucky. The houses built around us have been getting bigger each time one is built and it upped the value on our land, but also behind them came the higher taxes too. Our tax man fights those for us, but reducing school taxes is a no win situation when they keep adding buildings to the campus to take care of the increased population in the district. It was such a small quiet area when we bought long before NASA and Tilman Fertita opened the Kemah Boardwalk. We would have days when no traffic was on our road. Now it is heavily traveled day and night. Progress took our privacy away, but we have our memories of what a peaceful quiet existence it was.