The Coffee House

[vintagesnaps]

If you say so Frank! lol I'm not sure our conversations would make sense to anyone else!

And what is that under the wooden counter in your picture? it's cool looking, couldn't tell if it was a stove? or storage? Looks very homey and comforting place to be.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Oooh!! The house?? that looks like an apartment building.

 

[Frank F.]

Oooh!! The house?? that looks like an apartment building.

Two Maisonettes with roughly 120 sqm, the garden M. and the Penthouse M. and in the Middle one Flat for a single or a couple with 75 sqm.

All three units to rent out, to sell or to live and work in myself with family.

To my eyes it is a sustainable building of very high aesthetic value.

At the moment it is a side project. My book is still my main focus apart from every day family and household and work for money.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Very nice! Put a coffee shop on the ground floor and you'd be good to go. (I'm kidding, of course.)

 

[table1349]

Instead we are looking into the unmoved RV option.

We see a few of these type, however they usually are what's called "park model", kind of across between an RV and a mobile home. We've also looked at buying a lot in one of the upscale parks, but unless you use that location frequently association fees make it unfeasible. Our average stay out runs from 10 days to 4 weeks. We like the flexibility of moving when we want.

Hadn't seen those. I think I saw this on the Travel Channel a couple of years ago. They were full blown RV's, all higher end with some being the full blow diesel bus models. They were all capable of going where ever. Sometimes the people would take off for a few days to the mountains, Vegas etc. and then come back.

 

[smoke665]

Hadn't seen those.

Some of the Park Models are on the clunky side, but the newer ones are really neat. The recent tiny house shows might have had an influence. Typically the Park Models are little more like a residential residence, with better insulation, and residential appliances, but still have the ability to be moved. Park Model RVs | Go RVing

RV's of any type don't typically do well sitting. Tires hardly ever wear out, they dry rot, diesel engines have seals that dry and leak, batteries fail from sulfation from sitting hooked to a charger.

 

[smoke665]

I used to like working at summer camp and going camping but not doing that anymore! lol will take the comfort of home.

The groups we travel with call it glamping. 400 sq ft with the slides out, King bed, 4 door refrigerator/freezer, couch and recliners, fireplace, 50" big screen in the coach, 32" in the bedroom and in the basement pullout (for watching football outside), satellite system, surround sound, heat pumps. It's not much different from home, and we know "who" the last person was to sleep in the bed.

 

[Frank F.]

Very nice! Put a coffee shop on the ground floor and you'd be good to go. (I'm kidding, of course.)

The house is small. If there will be work it will be my photo businesses. The greatest luxury of all: a fully walkable neighbourhood and for work I do not even need to leave the house!

 

[SquarePeg37 7]

The house is small. If there will be work it will be my photo businesses. The greatest luxury of all: a fully walkable neighbourhood and for work I do not even need to leave the house!

I had no idea I was living such a luxurious life! You're right though - being able to walk downtown to shop or go to a restaurant or just enjoy the neighborhood is wonderful. I don't do it often enough. Working from home, while convenient, does have almost as many cons as pros. The isolation can be depressing. Easy access to the fridge and too much sitting can lead to weight gain. And the #1 con - you're always at work.

 

[limr30 3]

For me, the ability to go to sleep hearing nothing but crickets and frogs beats out the convenience of living in an urban neighborhood. Ideally, I wouldn't even be able to see any neighbors at all. Noise is stressful for me and driving, for the most part, isn't, so it's a compromise I can easily live with.

 

[SquarePeg37 7]

Lol, I'm so used to the street and neighbor noise that I can't sleep without it. Just wrapping up a couple of nights in VT and had a hard time getting used to the quiet.

 

[limr30 3]

Lol, I'm so used to the street and neighbor noise that I can't sleep without it. Just wrapping up a couple of nights in VT and had a hard time getting used to the quiet.

If it's too quiet, I tend to fixate on every tiny little noise I hear, so I do prefer some white noise or very very soft music. A real rainstorm is just a delicious sound to fall asleep to. That, plus a nice cool breeze, and I sleep hard. I have lived in cities - both large and small - and so I do understand how you get used to typical street noise, but for me, those noises always created an underlying tension. I would get accustomed to that, too, but when I went away somewhere quiet, I noticed the absence of that tension, and when I returned to town, I would feel it settling in again. After a while, that just wore me down and I have no interest in ever carrying it with me again.

 

[Gary A.]

Lol, I'm so used to the street and neighbor noise that I can't sleep without it. Just wrapping up a couple of nights in VT and had a hard time getting used to the quiet.

Like the story of the guy who lived next to the tracks. One night the 2:30 a.m. train didn't go by and he woke up saying "What was that ...?".

 

[Gary A.]

Buenos Dias Coffee Hosers. The heat wave is broken. The past three days tem temps have been in the lower 90's upper 70's.

@ Leo: Gary has been ordering Fidget Spinners for his daughter, grandson and granddaughter. There are a zillion models and types. Gary thinks you need use a Fidget Spinner.

Sleep is dear and always in short supply. Gary remembers talking to a guy in his sleep. His answers were slow coming and sounded ... hollow ... with no vocal inflections. The odd part was the guy was standing up at the end of the NCO Bar holding a beer. The next day I questioned him about the occurrence, he just laughed and said he does it all the time. Most people can train themselves to work-around normal inconveniences to grab some shut eye. Gary thinks the greatest sleepers are found in the military. Gary is a very light sleeper. He cannot sleep in a moving vehicle. Even in the middle of the night on a plane crossing an ocean, Gary is looking out the window not wanting to miss something. In contrast, Gary has seen soldiers fall asleep the moment they quit moving. The moment they sit down in a truck or helicopter an LZ ... bam ... they're grabbing some z's. But the same guys will instantly wake up from a dead sleep, not if a truck or tank rambles by, but if they register something signaling potential danger, a generator stopping, a faint whisper or the click of charging a weapon, they're at attention.

 

[Gary A.]

Very nice! Put a coffee shop on the ground floor and you'd be good to go. (I'm kidding, of course.)

The house is small. If there will be work it will be my photo businesses. The greatest luxury of all: a fully walkable neighbourhood and for work I do not even need to leave the house!

Guten Morgen, Frank. Wir haben Sie um hier verpasst.