Maybe if she'd spent more time obtaining a dock permit than clutching her curtains, this Riverside (tidal) waterfront might sell more quickly

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166 Indian Head Road, beautifully built by one of our top builders in 2010, is back on the market after a 12-year hiatus and priced at $12.750 million. It failed to sell for $9 million in 2012-2013. It’s waterfront, and (small) boats can launch from here at least 3 hours on either side of the tide, and docks on property so situated are highly desirable. If the town has refused a permit well, that’s unfortunate, and a loss to the owner, but permits can usually be wrangled through, given time and money.

So no dock; even more of a turn-off, in my opinion, is the prospect of new buyers having to explore their purchase with flashlights and then finding no privacy if and when they discover the bedrooms. Maybe if they offer $12,750,000.25 the owner will relinquish her precious(es).

Silly.

Exclusions: Lighting Exclusions: - 3 lights above kitchen table - 3 lanterns in the living room hanging near window - 2 ceiling lights in library - entry artichoke hanging light - 2 ceiling lights in family bedrooms Curtain Exclusions: -All bedroom curtains are excluded (5 rooms)

I still can't bring myself to read the news, so I'm contenting myself with rereading a favorite novel, and found this quote:

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not guilty

From Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time, the protagonist’s cousin, responding to his discovery that Richard III did not murder his two nephews in the Tower of London, says this:

It’s an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don’t want to have their ideas upset. It raises some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they reject it and refuse to think about it.

Tey wrote that in 1951 concerning a myth that has endured since 1485, yet she could just as easily been referring to any number of great myths, from the Boston Massacre; to “Remember the Maine” ; to “there are some fine people among the Nazis”; to global warming. All of which would have disrupted Tey’s storyline, of course, but the point is, human nature hasn’t changed.

Pending on North Street

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“garaging” for 7, plus visitor’s space

382 North Street, new construction, priced at $17,875,000. 14,126 sq. ft. a third of that which is presumably buried underground, 2.39 undividable acres in the RA-1 zone, across from North Street School.

We previously wrote, several times, about this property’s previous incarnations before it was sold as land in 2024 for $2.950 million. You can read one of those posts, and the comments, here.

The “New” look is now the old look — same design, different price ranges, all over town

Turning point

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TPU speaker on campus! Aaaaghhh!

I got back yesterday afternoon, but new of Charlie Kirk’s assassination just saddened me so much that I didn’t have the will to read, let alone prost about it, but today is September 11th, and it seems appropriate to at comment on two milestones in the country’s disintegration, 24-years apart in time, but closely tied together.

September 11 shocked many of us into realization that in fact that muslim terrorists were really, truly coming after the western world; My shock has passed, but not my fury that my children had to endure watching the towers burn from Tod’s Point, and I will always mourn for the victims, the dead and their survivors, including Sally Malone’s son Tommy.

Yesterday’s assassination of Charlie Kirk, however, jolted us not so much into an awakening, but as confirmation of what’s been growing increasing obvious since the Light Bringer arrived in Washington in 2008: we’re a nation at war with ourselves, and that war has turned deadly.

Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point when he was an 18-year-old college student, with the specific goal of returning civilized, informed debate back onto campuses. To that end, he held debates across the country, where he would always conduct a question and answer segment, with an unwavering rule that those who disagreed with him would go first. Check any video of one of these debates, and you’ll see that process in action. Unfortunately, you’ll also see rabid, angry people who, incapable of rational argument, seek to shut it down instead, screaming, blowing air horns, tossing smoke bombs and hurling objects at Kirk and others on stage.

This was all condoned by campus administrators, just as pro-Hamas rioters have been allowed to attack Jews, vandalize campuses, and, before that, prevent any discussion of any issues “they” disapprove of. It’s been a quick march from seeking merely to imprison dissenters: a 2022, poll, for instance, revealed that nearly half of all Democrats believed that fines and prison time were appropriate for anyone publicly questioning COVID vaccines’ effectiveness to outright murder.

Kirk’s assassination is already being called the natural, expected reaction to “divisive, hateful” speech, by which the apologists mean “anyone and anything that departs from what we think is correct”. Leftist of all ages are becoming pretty scary, but the youngest of them are already there: A poll of college students showed 48% of them viewed the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson as tototally or somewhat justified. I’m guessing, but I imagine their professors would agree with them

We’re in for interesting times.


“There’s a difference between wanting to be in America, and wanting to be an American” — same is true in Canada, obviously

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Everywhere, indians cause trouble

Watch SE Asian migrants poach Canadian salmon while they spawn. The problem is worse than you know.

Video out of Bowmanville, Ontario, shows Southeast Asian men (do with that what you will) flipping salmon out of a small stream during the annual salmon run back to their spawning locations.

Early September is peak salmon-fishing season. Fisherman across the continent catch millions of fish as they return upriver to spawn.

But it is highly illegal to catch salmon near their actual spawning sites (especially with nets), which includes Bowmanville (upriver from Lake Ontario). It is also unsafe, as the fish die off in mass numbers after spawning, making the meat inedible.

Despite this, migrants have been seen poaching fish in the area for several years (at least).

I called out and reported a large group like this snagging spawning King Salmon with large treble hooks in Duffins Creek at the Valley Farm Road bridge in Pickering, Ontario. They had at least 5 fish flopping on the bank. I called MNR and the Police, both said there was nothing they could do, I even went to Pickering Police station just down the road, in person, spoke to 3 cops at the desk and they informed me that they don't deal with such incidents as it's not their responsibility, and there wasn't anything they could do. I don't even bother anymore, these criminals have get out of jail free cards, it's pointless.

And, no surprise, it’s not just the fishing laws of their new country they’re ignoring.

Over the summer, SE Asian men went viral in Muskoka, Ontario, for filming themselves shooting up a local bridge and river. Locals say they have reported such incidents for years, but despite the danger and the leftover environmental pollution, authorities have been slow to act.

Qustions that must be asked — in the Blue Belt

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Also relevant, although it’s about a clueless politician’s response rather than the media’s reaction:

Persistence: “Noun. Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition.”

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65 Upper Cross Road was put up for sale for $24.995 million in October 2023, and its MLS listing expired in October 2024. It’s back today at $24.995 million.

Twenty-two acres, 19,950 square feet, which presumably includes the six-car garage and (secluded) guest house. Part of Conyers Farm, although that hasn’t been a selling point for quite a few years due, I believe, to market demand shifting closer to town.

From its listing:
Remarks: Spectacular Converse Lake direct waterfront estate in coveted Conyers Farm Association. Featuring a custom Shope Reno Wharton designed residence and two bedroom guest house with full kitchen both completely renovated down to studs and redesigned for today's lifestyle. Enter to see sophisticated and chic interiors throughout three floors of light filled living space with dramatic open views to the private lake. Property includes a tennis court, indoor pool, outdoor spa, sauna, three stop elevator, floating dock all behind handsome gates with CFA security service. A one of a kind family compound with privacy yet convenience to downtown Greenwich and Manhattan. The offering is two lots to convey together. Opportunity to use approved plans to build outdoor pool and pool house if desired.

Cutler Road short sale has a contract

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85 Cutler Road, currently listed at $2.5 million, reports a contract; it began at $3.250 in March 2020, and the first lis pendens was filed against it in 2018. The former, or soon-to-be owners paid $2.2 million for it in 2007. I’m not making fun of them, because this is sad, not humorous, and I’m sorry to see them lose their house. (It is a wreck, though.)