Mallory got totally spa'd out yesterday after her work shift. She went and had mani and a pedi and got an up-do. Let's be clear, these are not my terms, merely re-referncing them for the women-folk in my life. Mal looked beautiful! Alex looked pretty suave too, for being a punk that's dating my daughter. I've got my eyes on you boy.
After we got all the pictures taken and got them on their way, Dar and I had our date night. We went and picked up some movies and ended up deciding on La Chatelaine for dinner. It was really nice. For a moment I felt like we were back on vacation in France. What a cute little place. We both tried a wine sampling flight and a cheese plate. We also got their tomato, mozzarella, and basil plate.
I woke up this morning and although I should have ridden my bike, I went to Starbucks and got us coffee and scones. I actually have no way of transporting liquids on my bike yet as I have no cages on it. Mind you, I took our reusable coffee mugs and got a discount and didn't waste a paper cup. Were on our patio this morning doing our weekend reading routine and it absolutely beautiful today. We are going down to the Taste of Grandview today with one of my coworkers later today.
You know, I talked a little yesterday about looking at a house that is 1/3 the size of the home we have now. I am torn. Although moving and downsizing would be the right thing to do in the scope of minimizing our footprint, but at what cost? It would absolutely cut our footprint, but what about the next owner in this house? Would their consumption completely negate what I am trying to do? We are fairly conservative in this house. Although its fairly large, with our continuous improvements and "greening" I am able to continually reduce our utility consumptions. I will have to continue thinking about it.
You know, I talked a little yesterday about looking at a house that is 1/3 the size of the home we have now. I am torn. Although moving and downsizing would be the right thing to do in the scope of minimizing our footprint, but at what cost? It would absolutely cut our footprint, but what about the next owner in this house? Would their consumption completely negate what I am trying to do? We are fairly conservative in this house. Although its fairly large, with our continuous improvements and "greening" I am able to continually reduce our utility consumptions. I will have to continue thinking about it.
1 comments:
Hey Jason,
No one would fault you for not moving - it's a crappy experience. One really expensive long term investment is geothermal and your year's gas and electric bill would be on the order of $1200, BUT, the install on a pre-existing home is about 25-35K depending on your lot (I've priced it a few times). If you have a combined gas and electric around 3K, take at least 15 years to recoup. That would make your home for you and anyone else who lived there cheap and use less fuel (unless it became popular and they jacked up electricity to the price of gas).
The someone else is just going to move in reasoning is kind of weak. Why not buy a Hummer? Someone else will just buy one if I don't.
Tough choices.
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