Category: pretending

Thinking About Patio Chairs

Karen

My back deck is going into its tenth summer and so is my patio chair. Last year I recovered the chaise in the set but never did the chair, because I just never thought it was comfortable.

I’ve had my eye on the “egg chairs” that are trending now but hesitate to commit–mostly because I know they’ll look new for about 5 minutes in that full southwest exposure on the deck. I’m also trying to beef up the emergency fund right now, so $400 patio chairs are out.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t look at them! Target really knows how to show us what we want:

Speaking Of Livestock

Karen

Somehow I ended up on fancy ranch real estate sites yesterday and look what I found:



It’s the LaSal Wildlife Ranch–8,800 acres 50 miles east of Moab, surrounded by national forests, with 310 acres of water rights, herds of elk and deer, and views like this: There’s even a lake somewhere in there:



Of course, its average elevation is 7,500 feet, it’s mostly undeveloped, and it’s currently not habitable in the winter, but if you can afford the ranch* I think you can afford to build a new ranchhouse and get this operation going. Who’s in?

*Um, yeah, it’s $8.5 million. Plus about $10k a year in taxes. (Oh yes, I downloaded the PDF.)