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metsmarathon Jun 27 2006 06:21 PM

Closing time - time for you to go out, go out into the world. Closing time - turn the lights up over every boy and every girl. Closing time - one last call for alcohol, so finish your whiskey or beer. Closing time - you don't have to go home but you can't stay here. our days of apartment-life (three and a half years for me, one less for the wife) are drawing to a merciful close. on friday, we take possession of our beautiful house, a 45-yr old ranch with walkout basement in sunny Lake Mohawk, NJ! its a private community in tranquil sussex county, surrounding Lake Mohawk, and encompassing two other small lakes, the three of which we'll have exclusive access to. B-) also included in the community is a sweet country club. we're totally movin' on up to the east side here! well, we're up on the north-west side of the lake, but you get the idea. as soon as we leave the lawyers office on friday, we hit the store and pick up a grill, thereby ending our long drought of cooking with fire. um, and perhaps some pool cues and balls to use with our nice, included pool table. totally can't wait. we're going to be so poor, so soon!

Johnny Dickshot Jun 27 2006 06:44 PM

Great news. If Genevive Gorder comes by to decorate, let me know first so I can stalk her, kidnap her, and secretly marry her.

seawolf17 Jun 27 2006 06:44 PM

Party at marathon's! Someone call martin and tell him to bring his free Mets TV.

MFS62 Jun 28 2006 04:47 AM

Congrats! Have you always lived in an apartment instead of a private house? Don't have much money? Don't know what tools you're going to need to maintain it? Here's a hint: Use the $5 tool rule. Go to a flea market and buy a bunch of tools. Hammers, nails, saws, wrenches, etc. Don't spend more than $5 for any one (non-power) tool. If you end up not ever needing it , you were only out $5. If you find out that you use it a lot, then invest in a real good one. Later

ScarletKnight41 Jun 28 2006 06:47 AM

Best of luck with your new home!

Elster88 Jun 28 2006 07:05 AM

*62 can do your tilework if needed. Congrats.

Edgy DC Jun 28 2006 07:10 AM

Enjoy your new home. I dislike that song.

Methead Jun 28 2006 07:13 AM

Nice work! I've learned since owning a house that anything you plan on doing to it costs at least $500... or at least $5000. There is nothing in between. But it's a lot of fun anyway. Good luck, and enjoy it!

Vic Sage Jun 28 2006 12:30 PM

its about time... the MMMS has been looking for a new meeting lodge for years! so next Monday, at your place, right? Stock up on mead...

Rockin' Doc Jun 29 2006 06:30 PM

Great news and congratulations on becoming a home owner.

TheOldMole Jun 30 2006 09:47 AM

Good running out there? Or does this mean you switch to golf?

metsmarathon Jul 06 2006 09:08 PM

good running. quiet roads, lots of hills. have yet to run them tho... also, on a side note, there was a bear in the back yard today. black bear. popped in while we were grilling up some cheeseburgers. the wifey scared the crap out of me with an "oh my god!" and i startled myself with seeing the bear. he was maybe 40' away, and closer to the grill. but i guess he wasn't too hungry, or maybe he doesnt care for monterrey jack on his burgers, and he wandered off into the neighbor's backyard, and kept on going as if he's pretty cool with being around people who aren't yet so cool with being around bears. i'm not sure how i'm going to deal, eventually, with seeing one of 'em whilst running... later tonight, a pair of fawns occupied nearly the same patch of grass. they stared at me as a closed up the grill for hte night, played a bit, and scampered away when i started to pull the grill cover back on. ah, nature fawns - kinda cool to see. bears, a little more intimidating.

Nymr83 Jul 06 2006 11:25 PM

Bears are cool but Deer are a menace, they destroy anything you try to plant. soon you'll be calling those guys to who advertise on the radio for their electronic anti-deer equipment (or you can shoot 'em)

Willets Point Jul 07 2006 06:30 AM

So were drinking and were dancing And the band is really happening And the johnny walker wisdom running high And my very sweet companion Shes the angel of compassion And shes rubbing half the world against her thigh Every drinker every dancer Lifts a happy face to thank her And the fiddler fiddles something so sublime All the women tear their blouses off The men they dance on the polka-dots And its partner found and partner lost And its hell to pay when the fiddler stops Its closing time Were lonely, were romantic And the ciders laced with acid And the holy spirits crying, wheres the beef? And the moon is swimming naked And the summer night is fragrant With a mighty expectation of relief So we struggle and we stagger Down the snakes and up the ladder To the tower where the blessed hours chime And I swear it happened just like this A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss The gates of love they budged an inch I cant say much has happened since But closing time I loved you for your beauty But that doesnt make a fool of me You were in it for your beauty too I loved you for your body Theres a voice that sounds like God to me Declaring that your bodys really you I loved you when our love was blessed And I love you now theres nothing left But sorrow and a sense of overtime And I miss you since the place got wrecked By the winds of change and the weeds of sex Looks like freedom but it feels like death It something in betwen, I guess Its closing time Were drinking and were dancing But theres nothing really happening The place is dead as heaven on a saturday night And my very close companion Gets me fumbling gets me laughing Shes a hundred but shes wearing Something tight I lift my glass to the awful truth Which you cant reveal to the ears of youth Except to say it isnt worth a dime And the whole dam place goes crazy twice And its once for the dvil and its once for christ But the boss dont like these dizzy heights Were busted in the blinding lights Of closing time - Leonard Cohen

Methead Jul 07 2006 07:03 AM

Well, maybe you can get the bears to start eating the deer... problem solved.

Rockin' Doc Jul 07 2006 11:12 AM

Methead - "Well, maybe you can get the bears to start eating the deer... problem solved." That may be a little closer to nature than Mrs. Marathon would like. I have a good friend (one of my hunting buddies actually) that has a small herd of deer that frequent his backyard. He considers this small herd to be his pets, but the deer use to eat all his wife's flowers. He decided to build a small platform at the edge of the woods behind his home. He fills it with corn every few days. That way the deer continue to come out at dusk, so he and his wife can enjoy watching. In turn, the deer leave the flowers and plants in the yard alone. Some people have bird feeders, they have a deer feeder. Everyone (deer and homeowners) seem happy with the arrangement.