Old Age Day by Day October 25, 2012

We had a nice dinner with our friend, and are excited that she found a place to buy two streets away, if the numbers work and she wins the bid.  I've got my fingers crossed.  We always have a good time talking and it would be so lovely to have her close again.  I'm going to check with my friends and see if any of them have a connection to the sellers.  But basically I'm powerless.  I wanted so badly to help our son with the place he bid on, but someone out-monied him.  We live in an area that never took much of a dip and is fast rising again.  Real estate is a strange, even absurd concept to me.  The house could be gone in an instant, and owning land is bizarre.  At least with our cabin, we don't own the land, and are at the whim of the forest service for the cabin.  You can't get too possessive in that situation.  People do crazy things because someone has trees blocking their view, or they don't like the color of a neighbor's house, or don't want anyone parking in front of their house - on the street, no less.  And generally, I'd say cooperation is way down about neighborliness and a sense of community.  Nowadays, it's a sense of entitlement.  Scary.  Very Halloween.