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Living at the edge
Sunday, October 3rd, 2004 06:36 pm...of the ocean, that is.
I've wanted to live at the ocean for only as long as I can remember, and periodically thoughout my life have explored ways and means of doing that, only to find that it's way too expensive for people who don't already have trust funds, and regretfully putting the dream away.
Yesterday, though....
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kinzel and I took a drive. We were, we told each other, Just Going to Belfast, and would be home in plenty of time to, oh, write.
Instead, we took most of the day, mooching through Belfast and over to Searsport, where most of the right-hand-tending roads dead-end at the ocean, and in an eventual sort of way wound up on Cape Jellison, which is a sort of ...sub-division of Stockton Springs, where there are --
Oceanside condos for sale.
Maine being what it is, the condos are on a ridge overlooking a protected harbor, Sears Island and the petroleum plant at Searsport. There are walking paths down the hill to the Water Itself, and the condos....
Three stories -- the main story being as big as our present house. Then an upstairs and a basement level. Deck/patio on the main and basement levels. Windows. Lots and lots of windows, all looking out over the bay. Cute little propane fireplace. Garage. Atrium. Fully applianced kitchen. first floor master suite with its own full bathroom. All this and more for a mere $300,000. Plus condo fees. Property taxes, too -- which are likely going to be somewhat in excess of $1798. And the lad in the sales office wanted to know if we were considering buying one for a summer home.
Yeah, right.
Looking for that movie contract in a big way, here...
******
No physical writing done on Crystal Dragon. A lot of Consideration going on. Discovered/fabricated a better identifier for the Lords of Matter, did a meager amount of editing/rewrite in and around laundry, dishes, vacuuming, &c.
Heard from a reader who had downloaded and read Crystal Soldier -- lots of positive strokes. Relief. This one's kind of a stretch for us and Ghod She Knows if it worked or not. But! It's intelligible to one other human being. Our work is done.
I've wanted to live at the ocean for only as long as I can remember, and periodically thoughout my life have explored ways and means of doing that, only to find that it's way too expensive for people who don't already have trust funds, and regretfully putting the dream away.
Yesterday, though....
Yesterday,
kinzel and I took a drive. We were, we told each other, Just Going to Belfast, and would be home in plenty of time to, oh, write. Instead, we took most of the day, mooching through Belfast and over to Searsport, where most of the right-hand-tending roads dead-end at the ocean, and in an eventual sort of way wound up on Cape Jellison, which is a sort of ...sub-division of Stockton Springs, where there are --
Oceanside condos for sale.
Maine being what it is, the condos are on a ridge overlooking a protected harbor, Sears Island and the petroleum plant at Searsport. There are walking paths down the hill to the Water Itself, and the condos....
Three stories -- the main story being as big as our present house. Then an upstairs and a basement level. Deck/patio on the main and basement levels. Windows. Lots and lots of windows, all looking out over the bay. Cute little propane fireplace. Garage. Atrium. Fully applianced kitchen. first floor master suite with its own full bathroom. All this and more for a mere $300,000. Plus condo fees. Property taxes, too -- which are likely going to be somewhat in excess of $1798. And the lad in the sales office wanted to know if we were considering buying one for a summer home.
Yeah, right.
Looking for that movie contract in a big way, here...
******
No physical writing done on Crystal Dragon. A lot of Consideration going on. Discovered/fabricated a better identifier for the Lords of Matter, did a meager amount of editing/rewrite in and around laundry, dishes, vacuuming, &c.
Heard from a reader who had downloaded and read Crystal Soldier -- lots of positive strokes. Relief. This one's kind of a stretch for us and Ghod She Knows if it worked or not. But! It's intelligible to one other human being. Our work is done.
