I love my home...show a pic of the spot you call home..

[Bob W]

That's a fantastic view!

-Bob

 

[T. Erdelyi]

This is my summer palace.

Just kiddin' here's my place, front yard.

Barn

More to come, I live a mile from the Delaware River and the Allegheny Creek runs right through the middle of my yard.

 

[Bob W]

Here's what my house looks like today. I bought a used camera and snapped a quick roll to see if it works.

Same crapshack, just a bit less crappy than before:

Here's the Carriage House, after I re-pointed all of the brick, reglazed the window, and painted:

-Bob

 

[jthomas]

My house is a craptastic 60's stucco suburban anal wart that isn't worth looking at. But my 'home' is pictured below... about an hour's drive from my house, but still the place I consider home.

 

[richard j]

here's where i do my grinding at.

 

[Andrew Taylor]

Where I live now is just a townhouse in a sprawling city, but this is the place I call home. I was there for nearly 18 years and of all the places I have lived, it felt like I belonged there.

The waterwheel was the second most photgraphed scene in the village save for the harbour. The building was built in 1565.

This was taken on the day of the Queen's golden jubilee.

 

[maximus otter]

My home is at the foot of the hill in the background here on Skye:

Winter view down the Narrows of Raasay. The hill Glamaig in the centre background.

From the boundary fence. The island of Scalpay on the left.

Golden Eagle over my garden, twilight.

maximus otter

 

[Will Power]

If I had a place like that, I don't believe I would ever move.Interest all seasons:thumbup:

 

[bulgron]

My house is a craptastic 60's stucco suburban anal wart that isn't worth looking at.

lol. This so completely describes my house.

Every time I look at a thread like this, I'm reminded of just how crappy a deal the California bay area offers a guy.

 

[UffDa]

This is my hovel. It's nothing much, but it does have indoor plumbing. Many of the houses in my subdivision have nicknames. Mine is the ginger bread house. This pic was taken in February, hence the lack of greenery. I only have 1 acre, but it's a lot more then the 1/10 acre I had in the PRK.

 

[So-Lo]

Here is my lil' shack

 

[dttomcat]

We're hoping to move to a three bedroom later this year.

In all seriousness, that is a great place, Ren. Can I come visit?

I'd get a contractor out there to tighten up that siding. Very nice homes,

all. Er, uh, almost all. Take it from me. I should know. I look at between

5 and 15 each week. Up close and personal.

 

[fruitbat]

My wife and I just built this. We moved in just before Christmas. And yes my grass is dying.

 

[Bob W]

My wife and I just built this. We moved in just before Christmas

I like it. Classic styling, with a porch that's large enough to actually be used, and the aesthetics not destroyed by a driveway or garage smack in the front of the house.

And yes my grass is dying.

I'm guessing three things: (1) You don't water much, (2) the earth there has a high clay content and dries up hard as a rock, and/or 3) the area hasn't been a lawn for very long.

Don't worry, if you keep at it, in a hundred years or so a rich black organic soil will have built up, and growing a nice green lawn will be a piece of cake. Even in New Mexico, our historic lawn has lush black dirt for 1' - 2'; originally it was rocky clay soil that only supported scrubby grassland.

-Bob

 

[Trent Rock]

This is what's left of my grandfathers house on my ranch in Colorado
I hope to refurbish it best I can someday.....maybe turn it into a vintage adobe shed?



Shot with E3100 at 2007-08-14



Here is what's left of a "bunkhouse" my father (and a couple brothers) built when he was 12 yrs old
"Boy!!!! Go get yourself some wood and build a bunkhouse!!!!"



Shot at 2007-08-14


I'd show you guys my Santa Barbara house but it's just a 60's Brady Bunch style suburban stucco home with a leaky roof that is WAY overvalued at $900K :jerkit:
Plus I don't like giving out pictures of my house for privacy reasons (especially on a KNIFE forum!!! )
I tend to piss people off with my political views sometimes....

 

[Bob W]

Trent,
Very cool scenery and historic structures. Is that in Western Colorado? Looks like the country around Grand Junction.

-Bob

 

[Trent Rock]

It's in Southern Colorado
Conejos County
My ranch has the Conejos River running through it!!! :thumbup:
This is nearby
http://www.cumbrestoltec.com/


It was part of an original "Spanish land grant" from the early 1800's
Started out like a 1000 acres
Give a few acres to this daughter and her new husband
Give a few acres to this cousin
Sell a .5 acre to buy a Winchester rifle for bear hunting
I got the remaining 13 acres

My great great grandfather explored/hunted/trapped the area in the mid 1800's and named several lakes and mountains
Victoria Lake is named after one of his daughters
His nickname was El Colorado and he had long flowing red hair (sorta like a Grizzly Adams meets Opie Taylor)
Part of his shoulder was torn off during a bear attack
I often wonder what type of knife he carried
After doing some research (mostly from this forum) I have to conclude that it probably was a butcher type knife modified or maybe a Russell Green River type knife
Who knows maybe he forged his own from railroad ties or a covered wagon axle
Maybe he bartered?..."I'll trade you 2 sheep for a nice blade Mr. Blacksmith"??
Maybe he went to a Taos Rendezvous and traded for one? (He had to pick up some Taos Lightning whiskey anyways, right???!!!)



When I was about 12 yrs old (25 years ago) I lost my hunting knife on the ranch!!!
Looking back on it now I'm pretty sure it was a Western L39 "sharpfinger style" knife
I didn't know much about fixed blade knives back then
I was into Buck 110 folders mostly
It was one of many knives my father had that he let me use when we were fishing
I was devastated
I looked in that damn field for hours!!!
Finally we had to drive back home to California
EVERY TIME I go to my ranch I think of that knife!!!
I know about a 75 yard radius of where I lost it
I think I'm gonna buy a metal detector at Wal-MArt next time I am out there
Use it to find the knife (hopefully) then return it
I'm sure it's rusted to the bone and the leather is all gone and it's under 2 feet of dirt.................

 

[fruitbat]

I like it. Classic styling, with a porch that's large enough to actually be used, and the aesthetics not destroyed by a driveway or garage smack in the front of the house.

That's exactly what we thought when we started building.

I'm guessing three things: (1) You don't water much, (2) the earth there has a high clay content and dries up hard as a rock, and/or 3) the area hasn't been a lawn for very long.

You are correct on all three points. We are just outside the city limits and the town charges big $$$ for water. Orange Co, NC seems to be named after the orange clay that is everywhere. It's the first summer it has been a yard. Before that it was a farmers woods.

 

[Bob W]

It's in Southern Colorado
Conejos County
My ranch has the Conejos River running through it!!!
This is nearby
http://www.cumbrestoltec.com/

Cool background and history, Trent. Unfortunately I'm an Easterner by origin; my grandmother was born in a lighthouse, about the least southwestern-ish place imaginable.

I work in Trinidad, Colorado and my wife and I rode the Cumbres Toltec once, a beautiful Fall ride.

Here's a photo from the last time I passed through there:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v287/Bobthearch/06 West Side Rally/?action=view&current=Day42.jpg

-Bob

 

[Bob W]

I like it. Classic styling, with a porch that's large enough to actually be used, and the aesthetics not destroyed by a driveway or garage smack in the front of the house.

That's exactly what we thought when we started building.

One of my pet-peeves with modern so-called architecture, the garage doors that take up the entire front of the houses. I always imagine that those people are living in a shop.

Other pet-peeves include: Decorative and useless porch-looking things. Open floor plans. And paved yards.

You are correct on all three points. We are just outside the city limits and the town charges big $$$ for water. Orange Co, NC seems to be named after the orange clay that is everywhere. It's the first summer it has been a yard. Before that it was a farmers woods.

I was sort of guessing, but it was semi-educated guesswork based on the time I spent living in Arkansas. In the fall the ground would try up hard as a rock, that's bad when you're an archaeologist digging shovel tests.

Bermuda grass might be the thing. It turns brown, looks like crap, and goes dormant in the winter and during dry periods. But add a little water and it comes right back. Compare to 'nice' grasses, that just die and stay dead...

Like I said though, give it a hundred years and the lawn will practically keep itself. Think of the established lawns in the local historic neighborhoods where you live. They started off just like your's.

Good Luck,
-Bob