My brother near St. Paul MN recently had a house built for $300k. Their old 1930's farm house was small, hard to heat, 1 bathroom, dark low ceiling basement. 2 floors, and all small rooms. The new house has 4 bathrooms, 5 bedrooms, is 4400 sq. ft. including a full (with 9 ft. high ceiling) basement. Still has water heat, very inefficient heating even with a 98% efficient boiler.
We finished the 4th bathroom, installed electric heat in the small guest house, and removed stuff from the house that will be torn down soon.
I still hate flying, but all 6 flights on Southwest Airlines were on-time or early!
I took my winter coat, but was in the low 30's in AM, warmed to mid 50-mid 60's. Wouldn't you know? Was warmer than the 2 times I was there in May twice before. Very dry, no outside burning allowed. Saw the MN Zoo, Mississippi river, and live Eagle display, went to a funny play and out to dinner, better food than in El Paso.
Back home to lots of emails, snail mails, bills, and catching up. Went for a ride today but was windy and cold again, was warmer in Feb.
Glad to be home and bored.
Next month we go to Garland to pick up our RV in the pic. More on that later.
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