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June 08, 2007
The beads are building...
I'm slowly garnering a collection of beads...its going slower than I thought, but it is going...I have to go to a meeting at our county tax accessor's office to fight the taxes that have magically doubled...what is up with that...good grief...so, I need to print pictures to prove I don't live in the Dell mansion, or on Willie Nelson's 100 acre spread...I live in a small shack on a dirt road in a small town...please stop taxing me like I live in Trump tower...good lord...I'm ready for a fight...
Did you know the mosquitoes that come out at night are twice as large as the daytime ones? I saw that last night while feeding Chloe...when they landed on my leg, they made an indention...they were large enough to carry the cat away...and why wasn't the toad eating them? I didn't see him at all last night...
and the spider who weaves a web each night in the corner of the porch wasn't out either...i think they were cowering from the mosquitoes...everything is bigger in Texas...
My mind is fried...I don't know what else to post...I'm fiddling with some old beads here, wondering how I can make them into a necklace...la de da, la de da...I need to go print pictures of my shack...back later...
Posted by Donner at June 8, 2007 09:39 AM
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I swear, the minute you start to fix up your house your taxes double, or more. When we moved to Petersham, a very very small town, and started doing yard work and fixin' the place up to look nice, our taxes went from $742.00 a year to $4200.00 a year. I nearly fell over when I got the bill! I hope you have better luck fighting the tax accessor than I did!!!
Posted by: Foofaraw at June 8, 2007 10:05 AM
The property taxes in Austin are terribly high...outrageously so (in some areas, like where we lived)...I remember flying home once, a couple sat next to me, they were from Seattle...their daughter was going to college in Austin and they had bought her a house to live in while here...He was complaining to me about how bad the taxes were on her tiny house in Austin...this- coming from a dude where homes average 300K a year...and he felt pain on house taxes on a home that was probably 110K in Austin...most folks don't SEE their taxes cause they are wrapped up in Escrow, so they just pay...but I have a friend in Seattle in a house that has a 5000 sq ft home, worth 500K...and her taxes were less than my 1500 sq ft house in Austin...and I ain't lyin'...its just wrong...
Posted by: donner at June 8, 2007 10:45 AM