REAL ESTATE IS DESTINY!!!

[Wayne Smith]

Mike:  Thats a fair question and deserves a fair answer.  I was born in North Austin and long ago it was a great place to live.  Today, if I want to see a parade, I just walk out to the highway (21E) and watch the fools driving 90 miles an hour so they can be first in line at the gas station.  For entertainment, I talk with friends on this gizmo, I do hand crafted wood work, I raise White Doves, Chickens of course,  rebuild antique (classic) cars & trucks, play in the garden raising foods that the squirels and wild birds like to eat.  I wage war against ghopers (on-going).  I have built over a hundred bird houses even though I don't know birds except red ones, blue ones, and those damn black ones.  I have 6 dogs that keep the Post man at bay but they love to play in the pool.  No I don't have a Lear Jet but I do have a Hot Rod Truck that's almost as fast.  Because of some nerve problems I can't sit still long enough to read much, that's why my spelling is so terrible.  I fought in
 their dang war but I live peacefully now except for an occasional duel that I use water ballons for.  Life is good in the country but one wouldn't know that unless they became part of the country.  I use to write a little had a few things published but I gave that up for lent and never took up the habit since.  Well, ole Son that's the story of this country boys life take it or leave it, I do vote straight line Democrat and always have but I'm going with Kinky in 06 just to see what happens.  Oh ya, in my garden this year I'm raising corn, blackeyed pease, okra, tomatoes, ghoards, sun flowers, bell peppers, and weeds.........Amigos, WS

Michael Eisenstadt <michaele at hotpop.com> wrote:Good news, Wayne. A pharmacist at Drugstore.com
just told me that that at my minimal dosage of Lipitor
I can still eat a half a Texas ruby grapefruit every morning.

I don't agree with you about cities.

If you take Houston as your baseline, you are not gonna
much like cities. But downtown Austin where I live is
not a bad place at all. Luckily we have a very quiet
apartment and we have a Bewick's wren who sings
throughout the day in a tree next to the apartment
house. Also all the pleasant distractions only available
in town are a short walk from here. Many restaurants,
some affordable like the Marrakesh arab food restaurant
on Congress and 10th street and others, for example
Cozzoli's pizza on Congree and 8th street which makes
the most righteous pizza in all of Austin. The nightclub
district just a few blocks from here is pleasant to stroll
around sometimes. There are parades on Congress Ave
with horses sometimes. It is fun also to walk downtown
as well as in west Austin just to enjoy the architecture.
There are handsome highrises downtown and very
interesting examples of vernacular residential houses
built in the early part of the 20th century and some from
the late 19th century throughout close-in Austin.

And most important for me are the libraries. The public
library is just up the street from here and the UT main
library is a 20 minute walk or you can take the shuttle
bus right to it. The shuttle bus stop to the UT library
is 1/2 a block from here.

What do you do out in Bastrop when you get bored?
Maybe you dont get bored that much. I bore easily and
need lots of plot for life to be interesting. It would be
nice to be rich enough and have a helicopter or jet so
one could switch between real country living and one's
in-city pied-a-terre. Another drawback to country living
is all the car driving you have to do just to pick up
groceries and the rent movies.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Wayne Smith
Subject: Re: REAL ESTATE IS DESTINY!!!


Mike: Well it you really want the truth, no I don't eat much Grapefruit, 
gives me gas or the burps which ever comes first. Too bad the Apt. won't 
let you have chickens, I have an extra Black & White Fighting Cock that 
would protect you in case of invasion from Iraq or someplace that doesn't 
like Wettos. As to your outboard motor, that's almost on the list for 
sinful things to do, wish I had an extra motor..Long ago I lived in Houston 
(god forbid) near River Oaks in the Midlane Apts. jokingly called "Sin 
Alley" Street was two blocks long, parties never ended just went from one 
complex to the next. Yours truly helped design the AC Units for the 7 
original ass-tro-nuts at NASA. Hated that job, had to get up of mornings 
and fight the traffic, long as I could stay home it wasn't a bad place. My 
prayers go out to anyone who is brave enough to live in Houston especially 
anyone who rides a bike to and from work (you kn ow who I'm talking about, 
bless her heart). Other than all of the above I wouldn't give you $.15 for 
all the cities in the world and that includes Austin where I was born. Like 
good ole Walt Whitman said "All cities are the same, only the people are 
different". So no matter what happens today or any day you kids have fun 
doing it........Amigos Too, WS





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