Today we traveled about 380 miles to mommy’s new Michigan property. The property size is 10 acres but when we got there it started raining hard. I thought there might be tornadoesL!
This will be a 2 week part. We found a well. I went in the well. We went to a store and met a big doggie. I tossed and caught a baseball by throwing it on the roof. There is a wood burning stove from the 80s in the garage. I painted and tore out carpet there was about 6 inches of water in the basement it was really cold. We got a pump going and I was getting bucketfuls of water and dumping it out through the window in the back. It was a nice house.
Summer's View
Sorry it's been a while since I've been on, but we were in northern MI, in a little town called Lincoln, that has no connection for our mifi, and our Hughes Net stopped working after a couple of days, so we have been without internet.
Why go to the big town of Lincoln, with a population of less than 400 people, and 25 miles south of the largest close town of Alpena? Well, I sort of bought a house in an online auction last year, and this is the first opportunity we have had to visit it and see what it is all about! LOL It is an old farmhouse on ten acres that the previous owners lost to foreclosure, and it has been vacant for about two years.
We parked our RV in the driveway and dry camped for the first time for a few days - cool! The only bummer was that it was cold and rainy most of the time.
It turns out the house has three bedrooms, one bath, one car garage, and a full basement, unfinished. It has natural gas for heat, and cable, which, I am told, is a luxury in this area. :) Someone had put all new siding on it, and new windows and exterior doors, and they also winterized it (thank goodness) so no leaking water pipes. There is a well, and it has a septic tank.
The neighbor across the street said his mother grew up in this house, and he believes it was built around 1897. Wow! It has an old carriage house type shed, and he said it used to have the biggest and best barn in the county, but it got struck by lightning a few years ago and burned. Bummer! He pointed out the flowering trees were apple and pear trees.
The roof had leaked in the past, but it had been covered with a tarp, which seemed to have held it off while it was empty. We had the roof redone, and we are going to pull out some old carpet and paint a couple of rooms before listing it with the local realtor. Anyone want to buy a house in northern MI about 5 miles from Lake Huron? :)
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