10/24/2009 Bash On the Boat (I'm with B.O.B.) - Thread #18

[JLDSMD]

I came home at lunchtime and saw this fawn in our side yard, eating leaves off the honeysickle vines on the fence.

Up here I think they'd call that dinner.


Although I'm not a deer person. If it were a cow in the backyard, that would be a different story (and they have been in my backyard before - although they were gone before I got home, but left me a few great big presents on the lawn ).

 

[JLDSMD]

The board used to be very friendly, but it's grown so big now and there's a lot of Fluff posted.

Yeah, cause we don't see that on the DIS.

 

[Karen Mouse]

You can all blame Karen for this one.

The other option was AFEG and I in our swimsuits - not going to happen. Although the fasion show by the pool on Monday afternoon was great (women's suits). I think Dawg would have loved that one.

Ewwwww - not him again

How long can you lock for over there? Can you get a 20 or 30 year fixed rate mortgage? If so, lock it up.

Its 2 or 3 years usually... occasionally 5 but no longer.

Up here I think they'd call that dinner.

Bambi killer!

 

[Karen Mouse]

Ok, I felt this deserved a post oall of its own - its so hideous ... god knows what I'm in the middle of saying to Ellis but our expressions are

 

[Karen Mouse]

I love Ellis' expression on this one

 

[JLDSMD]

Jeff, where were you staying? If you told us before I must have missed it...

Looks very nice....

Riu Tequila - it is in Playa del Carmen.

There are two other Riu's that we could use down there, Playacar and Yucatan. Walked through both. Playacar I didn't like. Yucatan was nice but there pool area wasn't as good as ours. Same type of set up as our hotel at both with several buildings on the grounds. The Yucatan would have been about $500 more for the 3 of us.

 

[Karen Mouse]

And then Minnie tried to eat Ellis

 

[Karen Mouse]

 

[JLDSMD]

Let me attempt to steal a FO

Go Chris!

Well, since I wasn't going for one, not much of a challenge.

I'm just posting away. Not really knowing where my posts are landing. It comes up, I click back to the one I quoted and keep going with the next quote.

 

[Karen Mouse]

You can convert your photos to black and white aswell - I forgot and only did this one

 

[JLDSMD]

Ewwwww - not him again

You asked for it. Somethings never die, do they?

At least it is DIS Green though.

 

[Karen Mouse]

Last 2

 

[JLDSMD]

Its 2 or 3 years usually... occasionally 5 but no longer.

If you can get the 5 year, take it.

This is what got people in trouble here in the States. They took out loans with adjustable rates that would move after 1, 3 or 5 years and they couldn't afford the increases in payments. Hopefully the rates will stay down for you guys. Does anyone offer long-term loans over there?

 

[Karen Mouse]

All I need to do now is go to Boots and get them printed - theres only 103, add that to my 495 I already got processed and then put them ion an album (or two!)

 

[GOS]

Ok, I felt this deserved a post oall of its own - its so hideous ... god knows what I'm in the middle of saying to Ellis but our expressions are

Hold on tight?

 

[JLDSMD]

Great pics Karen. Looks like Xmas was a great time to be at the parks.

Seems like years ago by now, doesn't it (and it was only about 5 weeks). Look at the bright side, you'll be in FL in just over 8 months - and this time we get to see you.

 

[GOS]

I love Ellis' expression on this one

Yes, I like this one as well.

 

[JLDSMD]

I just noticed, this thread is only about 20 hours old and we're already past 200 posts. We may hit 250 in a day. That will only be 15 days to close it down. That's providing we don't have a post-a-thon on a Friday or Saturday night.

 

[Karen Mouse]

If you can get the 5 year, take it.

This is what got people in trouble here in the States. They took out loans with adjustable rates that would move after 1, 3 or 5 years and they couldn't afford the increases in payments. Hopefully the rates will stay down for you guys. Does anyone offer long-term loans over there?

If they do the rate is much higher - I have never heard of anything over 5 years, but if we could fix for longer then we would jump at it. The norm now is 2 years

A friend of ours is a mortgage broker so we'll get him on the case nearer the time. Banks are really cautious now who they lend to. We're lucky because we own half of the house we're a "safe" bet, but loads of first time buyers and those without much of a deposit are struggling to get a mortgage at all.

When I think back to when we bought the first house we were paying 12+ percent

I hope those days never come back!

 

[GOS]

I really love the castle like this.