Yeah, I like this home, it's very comfortable and it's in a nice quiet neighborhood... very peaceful. When I bought this place, it was a train wreck of a fixer, a beat-up old double-wide which needed a shitload of work done to it. I actually had what they call "buyer's remorse" after I bought it, like, "WTF, I ACTUALLY BOUGHT THIS PLACE?!?" Even though I only paid $36K for it, including the land, lol... but then I buckled down to work and got busy, and things changed, ya know? The place was depressing when I bought it, with dark ugly paint colors inside and very little light... I painted the entire interior of the home white, and slapped multiple coats of KILZ on the floor before paying someone to install new carpet. I took the three A/C units out of the windows and installed them in the nearby walls, which allowed SO much more natural light into my home... the windows were all ghetto before I did this, they had foam and plywood and other crap blocking the light, aye? Now the difference is literally like night & day! So the kittehs & I are happy with this place, I even widened all the windowsills for 'em and created "vertical spaces" and "cat caves!" Cats run the show around here, you understand. But the impression most visitors and guests receive when they enter my home is: "WOW! THIS PLACE IS COMFORTABLE AND IT HAS SO MUCH NATURAL LIGHT!" I don't like heaps of clutter, I like open space in my rooms, with furniture placed in such a way that it doesn't interfere with movement throughout the home. Anyway, this million-dollar view of the San Pedro Valley and Dragoon Mountains is making me smile this morning, it is absolutely MAGNIFICENT!!!
P.S. Good on ya for being kind to the kitties on your property, maybe they just need a quiet space too... and I actually have multiple bird feeders for the wildlife in my yard, I see all kinds of cool birds here. Just saw a tanager, with its trick yellow & black paint job... good-looking birds, those tanagers. We get several different kinds of woodpeckers too, I dig 'em all! The cats like eyeballing the birds, those knucklehaids!!! I gotta watch Tiger, he's a mean hunter and he'll kill birds whenever he gets the chance... I don't mind when he kills rodents, that's his job, but I wish he wouldn't kill so many birds and lizards. Sometimes I rescue the hapless critters in time, otherwise they're toast. But how do ya keep a cat from being a cat? And my cats gotta run free, no way I lock 'em up indoors 24/7. They'll take their chances out in the wide world, same way I do. I lock 'em down at night whenever I get the chance, just to keep 'em safe, but they like roaming the 'hood, and most of the time it's safe enough for 'em, the real danger lies between midnight and dawn, when human activity dies down and predators infiltrate the 'hood to look for snacks.
