{"id":2544,"date":"2015-10-07T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:51:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:51:02","slug":"wednesday-7-october-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/10\/07\/wednesday-7-october-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 7 October 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

10:51 –<\/span> We spent yesterday up in Sparta looking at houses. We decided to put in an offer on one of them. It’s a beautiful house, sitting on about 1.5 acres of level ground that gets plenty of sun. It’s a short sale, which complicates matters somewhat because the bank is involved.
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The house was built in 2006, but it was built right, with solid cherry floors on the main level, cherry cabinetry and good built-in appliances in the kitchen, and so on. The primary heating and AC is via heat pump, but there’s also a ducted woodstove in the basement that can heat the entire house if necessary.
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One of the other homes we looked at was obviously owned by preppers. One of the basement rooms had three 10-foot islands of five-shelf 2-foot wide floor-to-ceiling shelving units. Three hundred square feet (30 square meters) of shelves, all filled with canned goods, dry staples, and so on. I don’t know how large the family is, but I’m guessing there was food for one year for a family of six or eight people.
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Then as we were driving down the road, our real estate agent announced out of the blue that she was a prepper, and had been all her life. She’s a couple years older than I am, and she said she’d grown up on a farm and she still maintains a large garden, hunts and fishes, shoots recreationally, keeps tons of stored food, has the ability to heat her home off-grid, and all the other stuff preppers do. I wasn’t surprised when she added that that was the norm in Sparta, where even people who don’t consider themselves preppers are semper paratus<\/em>. It’s just part of living in an isolated mountain town.
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So now we’re waiting for the sellers and their bank to approve or reject our offer. We should hear from them within the next few days.
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10:51 – We spent yesterday up in Sparta looking at houses. We decided to put in an offer on one of them. It’s a beautiful house, sitting on about 1.5 acres of level ground that gets plenty of sun. It’s a short sale, which complicates matters somewhat because the bank is involved.\n<\/p>\n

The house was built in 2006, but it was built right, with solid cherry floors on the main level, cherry cabinetry and good built-in appliances in the kitchen,<\/p>\n

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