Yea I “think” that if it’s not easily accessible (meaning it fell down) the post office can decline to deliver the mail. Mine when I moved in was a simple mailbox on a 1/2 pipe with some decoration. Probably cost $25 at Home Depot. I went ahead and upgraded the mailbox to a stronger plastic and got a much more solid pipe. Dug the hole out, poured in a bag of quikcrete and made sure the new pole was at 90 degrees and supported it for a few hours while it dried. Overall it took an hour all in.
We have one of the early versions of the Dyson vacuums that plug in and a much more recent cordless Dyson. The plug in has to be over 10 years old at this point and knock on wood it keeps trucking. The cordless is great as well but lacks the power of the plug in version. We also did the conversion on the cordless so it will accept my Dewalt batteries like the tools do. This way when the wife is using it and it goes dead we can swap em out. Much better than the Chinese batteries on Amazon that barely last a year.
our house came with one, we weren’t seeking it, though with young kids we have actually grown to appreciate it. even maintaining it yourself though be prepared to light your money on fire
Met with my GC and architect for my build on Monday, provided a set of concepts, designer is getting started next week and we're meeting again in mid-October. Hope is to break ground May/June/July of 2025. Super stoked Spoiler Question - I will desperately need a warehouse/pole barn. Thinking like 1,000 sq ft, simple concrete slab and easy walls. Those are relatively cheap, right?
Should be good in between those numbers depending on some options. I'd budget 65-80. Concrete and site work is very expensive. Insulation, roll up doors, tall ceilings, etc will all be appreciable adds. Obviously HVAC, and utilities too.
Crazy, first rate drop in four years. Edit: Original date on that was Oct 22. Also that is not a prediction of mine, was just reading a ton on rates and the economy at the time. It’s mostly a holy shit post.
Got our mostly completed floor plans and elevations back (we may end up adding a door/covered patio off the master). Also have a 26x25 finished shop/office going in. Appraisal is in process, hopefully it comes back on number and we can start getting permits. Spoiler
12 acres? You could do two or three pools and 4 pickleball courts and still have room for a field of cab franc
Outside of Lebanon, so basically right between Eugene and Salem. Spoiler Front of the property/drive up to home site: View from the front of the house: Home site:
What are your plans with the land? Doing an amateur homestead? I got 5 acres and super ambitious plans. Spoiler
This guys voice pattern is infuriating so I can't watch much of him, but he has some cool homesteading videos. https://www.youtube.com/@Narrowayhomestead/videos
My future tradwife and I, along with Ryfle, Luna, and OurShiningSun are going to be the most obnoxious social influencing homesteaders this board has ever encountered and you jamokes are just going to grit your teeth and take it.
we don’t know yet. A good chunk of the property is in farm/forest deferral, so we need to make $650/year off of it. I mostly wanted land because I just want to be left in peace. We have just under 3 acres right now and still have annoying neighbors.
one of my neighbors makes us get an arborist once a year because he is convinced that branches on our tall pine trees that hang over his property are going to fall on and kill his dog. It appears my other neighbor is building a mini RV park, as more and more keep showing up on his land.
When I was a young child growing up in Corvallis we would visit friends in Lebanon, and I thought it was on the other side of the world because I'd seen Lebanon and Beirut on the news
its in the middle of an identity crisis. There is still the rural Oregon, but the medical school opened like a decade ago and has brought in a more upper class folk.