Good Morning Connie, hagatha, soot, Drclvr, oldbroad, and everyone! Connie hope you enjoyed ladies night...sounds like fun! Hagatha, I think your kitties are wanting you up early to spend more time with them when they are awake? Soot hope your weather wasn't to bad yesterday afternoon. Draclvr what's on your schedule for today? Oldbroad enjoy your day.

The usual double dark brew awaits along with very strong tea.

Happy Thursday everyone!

Gerry

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Leaving for Eagles State Convention tomorrow, will be back Sunday afternoon. I will not have my laptop with me. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Gerry,

Early in the morning the kitties are wanting their food!

Willow is a real food-hound, and Dude follows her around whenever she starts yowling for food. He's like her little shadow. If Willow walks to her bowl, Dude goes over to his. I had them on automatic feeders but Willow won't eat unless an actual human gives her the food so it ended up being pointless.

Good Morning everyone and Welcome to the weekend. Connie hope you are enjoying the Eagles State Convention!

Hagatha my kitties as they got older use to howl during the night too...sometimes for food and sometimes just for attention. They are such independent creatures...they know what they want and when they want it!

Double dark brew is on along with strong breakfast tea...got some of Connie's danish, bagels, and donuts for you all to enjoy too.

Happy Friday!

Gerry

Happy Friday to all!

Good Morning everyone. Extra dark strong coffee this morning along with dark brewed Breakfast tea to go along with Connie's delicious danish and bagels. I woke up at 1:30AM so here I am ready to start my day!

Hope you all have a relaxing weekend!

Gerry

Ugh, Gerry. That's a bit too early to be waking up.

Doing some packing this morning, though the sale of my house is not going well and may collapse; all to do with my neighbours with whom I share the property. Long story and boring, but the sale of this place has been one disaster after another with my neighbours sabotaging me at every turn, and I'm almost ready to throw in the towel.

If that does happen I can force them to do all the work on their side that they have neglected (we are a condo) starting with their decrepit roof, which is what may ultimately scuttle my sale. Then there's the illegal wiring they have in their basement from when they tried to build an illegal suite last year.

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How awful, hagatha. I hope you don't have to bring out the big guns on these people, but if you do, nail them. Are they actively sabotaging the sale or is it just their lack of upkeep?

Drac asks a good question. I'd be interested in the answer too, of how they are doing this sabotage. Such a shame.

It's both lack of upkeep and interference with everyone who comes to view the property.

I have the law on my side, though, and I know that law well because I was a condo property manager for years. I can handle recalcitrant condo owners. And now I take off the gloves.

Ello Gerry, Hagatha, OldBroad, Draclvr and Connie Double dark brew is a must for me and mated with Connie's bagels I am set for the day!! That's terrible Hagatha, I hope you are able to turn the corner on your sale! I think it's time to take the gloves off

Happy Saturday everyone!

Good and glad to hear you are taking off the gloves, hagatha. NO ONE can be allowed to tank a sale of your home. They need to back the blank off or there will be consequences. Good for you!

Sorry to hear of your neighbour's interference with the sale hagatha, and I wish you well in resolving the issues.

The problem is that the very existence of an unpleasant and or disputatious occupant of part of a condo can be enough to discourage a purchaser, and of course any active dispute has to be disclosed: I worked in The Cayman Islands for a couple of years and my clients included condo management committees/companies dealing with recalcitrant owners.

Do you think the neighbour is just being vindictive, or may perhaps be trying to buy your property cheaply (and/or even hoping you will buy his to get rid of him...)?

Good Morning and Happy father's Day! Hope all the GB Dad's have a wonderful Day!

Special dark brew, Breakfast tea and goodies from Connie are here to enjoy in the break room!

Gerry

Special Dark Brew! Thank you for the coffee Gerry and goodies from Connie...I'll have cinnamon crunch bagels all day ... I don't get to do this often. Keep smiling Hagatha. Wishing you all a restful day.

No cooking two days in a row! As you know, we have German family here for several weeks. Guenter cooked for me last night as I worked a Wagon Days event at Longmeadow and was hot and tired when I got home. And we're going in town today for a Father's Day BBQ at step-son's house. Well, technically, I did cook a little - just put a zucchini slice casserole in the oven.

Happy Father's Day to all GB dads!

Good morning, and thanks Gerry for bringing the goodies while I was gone. We had a wonderful time at the conference, met a lot of new people and made lots of new friends.Our new state officers were initiated, and the banquet was very nice. Enjoy the day and hug someone. We did a lot of hugging this weekend.

Good Morning Connie nice to hear you had such a great time. Definitely "hug someone" today! Enjoy the dark roast brew and strong breakfast tea everyone!

Have a Happy day!

Gerry

Good morning everyone! Dark roast coffee and bagels ... thanks Gerry and Connie. Glad you had a night off Draclvr...with a little cookin on the side...I imagine the Wagon Days event is tiring. Happy Monday everyone.

My neighbours tried to build an illegal rental suite in their strata lot last year, just after John died, and I put a stop to it because it violated all sorts of laws and almost cost us our Strata Insurance.

He's asking every potential buyer if they would allow a rental suite, even though he knows it's not legal. Of course nobody wants that kind of person living next door.

Their motivation is that they spent a lot of money for nothing and are blaming me for it since I put a stop to it, and now they're desperate to have someone say yes. I don't think it's maliciousness; I think they're just really unsophisticated people who screwed up and are trying to find a way out and aren't capable of having any empathy for me.

I'm going to tell them that if the current deal falls through I'm going to move anyway and rent the place to 4-5 foreign students. That might put a stop to it.

You would think he'd keep his mouth shut until AFTER new people moved in.

Good Morning everyone. Double dark brew is ready along with strong tea for those who prefer tea.

Hagatha I hope the sale goes thru for you. It seems every neighborhood has one of those "problem" neighbors!

Have a great day...hump day is almost here!

Gerry

Good morning everyone and Tootin Toosday to you! Gerry, thanks for the double dark brew; I'll switch to tea this afternoon. Hagatha, I with Gerry and hope this sale goes through for you! Hey Ho OldBroad...wishing you and the gang a wonderful day!

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Bowling at the Eagles tonight. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good morning all It's a strong coffee morning for me. We're having unseasonably cold and wet weather right now, which is wonderful for the garden and means I don't have to water my plants.


I will find out about the house sale in the next couple of days. I'm expecting bad news since that seems to be the way my life trends at the moment. I'm so stressed that my face has gone bright red, like a sunburn, and itches like crazy. That's a first for me! Not the most attractive look, I must say. It really is a spectacular shade of red!


My cats are talking to each other right now...playtime is about to start! There's usually a lot of cooing and hooting and then the pouncing and chasing starts.