Sunday, December 01, 2024

Compound Update

It is received wisdom in these parts that we will all one day live in the same house/compound and make merry. We continue to be on the lookout for the appropriate venue (and the necessary funds). Details.

We've got a new contender this morning, and it's both spacious and imbued with a great deal of Gheorghe.

You may recall that I tucked a small story about visiting the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, CA in a Gheorghasbord post in October 2017. It remains one of my favorite museums. Sparky was a righteous fella.

And now, if we can come up with $3.25m, we can own the house he and his first wife Joyce Halverson built and lived in from 1960 to 1972. 2162 Coffee Lane in Sebastopol, CA sits on 9.15 acres in the country, midway between Santa Rosa and the Pacific Coast. The 6,805 square-foot house has six bedrooms and six and a half bathrooms, in addition to a guest house. It's got a pool and a pond. Pond would be good for us. It's a peach of a mid-century modern. 

Lemme know if y'all want to make an appointment to visit. I'm pretty busy next week, but I'll make time.

20 comments:

zman said...

That's a lot of beige.

rob said...

we have the technology to spruce it up a bit

Whitney said...

CJ Stroud may well be a marked man right now. That hit on Lawrence was some major bullshtein.

rob said...

your tribe are 6.5-point favorites on the road against old dominion this evening. what a fall from grace for the erstwhile big blue beast. i assume our man in norfolk will be in the building.

Whitney said...

Looks like he will be... finalizing the suite arrangements now

rob said...

whitney does NOT fly coach

Whitney said...

Aww, I’ll fly steerage these days. But in small towns like mine, there’s always someone with a ticket connection to ODU stuff.

rootsminer said...

You can take the baller out of the game, but you can't take the game out of the baller.

zman said...

Hate it or love it!

Whitney said...

This would-be baller has decided to stay in and decorate the tree with the fam. Can't imagine the game is on the telly...

rootsminer said...

It's a shame to lose someone who has some size and eligibility, but family is important. You can all listen on the radio to set the yuletide mood.

rob said...

crowdsourcing some negotiating advice from the assembled wisefolk. my kid is going to italy in may for a three-week study abroad program. very cool opportunity with a professor she really likes. i support it muchly. the school is charging out of state students $1800 more than in-state kids because...they can. curious about how you'd approach a conversation about knocking that extra cash off the fees.

zman said...

Whit's size has been called into question and he's no longer eligible.

zman said...

I would loop in Coach Prime.

Whitney said...

ODU hits a halftime buzzer beater 3 to go up 2 at the break. Seems like the same old sorry assed Tribe.

rob said...

lotta ball left

Whitney said...

Not enough. Down 12 now.

rob said...

no quit in the tribe. not much talent, either.

Whitney said...

Tribe did fight til the end, but the ODU squad outshot them behind the arc and was 15-17 from the line. Gotta do better against a weak opponent.

OBX dave said...

rob, at very least I'd ask someone to explain cost discrepancy for an overseas academic trip for which all are treated equally and have same access and opportunity. I get difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition costs -- alleged benefit for state residents. But in a side program in which all participants are no longer "in-state" it appears to be administered inequitably. Like I said, make 'em explain and justify it, dodgy as it's likely to be.