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shore and
you know
we went and done some stuff
and we come back and they're
sitting on a goddamn
fucking believable
excuse my French
sorry
but yeah it was just incredible
to see the boat
big boats too they're not like they were small
they were floating free and now they're
sitting in a they have
little wood things floating off
the grass
and he'd come back six hours later
there's a huge single
they're down on a hard
plant pan in a mouth
it's unreal
oh yeah
it's amazing
yeah
I spent a week in Nova Scotia
on the bay
you know it's funny
you know it's funny
the thing I like the best
we're down to the bay
and walking along
with a girlfriend
and picking up rocks
they were perfectly round
yeah
oh yeah it's from
bouncing around all that time.
Yeah, and then I was watching
Oak Island
and they had a round rock
and they said oh they don't come around here
this must have been from the Azores
and I'm saying
I got a shelf full
I fill up my pockets
and my girlfriend had them
I thought maybe that the Indians
used them for lacrosse
you know it wouldn't surprise me
they were very vicious in that game
Oh yeah, they played with rocks.
Yeah.
But they're perfectly round.
Of course,
on Oak Island,
I think
what happens is
the History Channel gets involved
and they fudge stuff.
I'm sure they do.
Well, they had a thing here about logging
and they had
local loggers
that used, well, Barry Wheeler was one.
Oh, I remember that segment.
Yeah, and there's all both.
Yeah.
It was all bull.
And, you know, I talked to...
Sorry, as soon as they
struck the cameras off,
I put the oxen away,
I got up to skitter.
Yeah, and then I had to move a log
and they blew it up.
All right. We got to go to business now.
You got a chainsaw and oxen,
you pull it.
Oh, okay.
But anyway, I don't have much faith
in their reality TV shows.
No, they're not real.
No, no, no, no.
All right, let's move on, let's get this done.
Call the order.
Minutes.
Anybody's seeing the minutes from last...
No.
You sent them out.
I looked at it.
Okay.
I didn't see anything wrong with it.
Okay.
Jim, you're good with them?
That's fine.
We'll pass the minutes.
All in favor.
Aye.
Old business.
All business.
What's going on with theater?
What's going on at the theater?
We had, but essentially amounts to a good spring season.
We just had over the last weekend.
Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday, Monday production.
for World Play.
Two and a half hours?
Oh, two and a half hours.
Yeah.
Somebody said that was their only complaint.
Yeah.
It was too hot, too long.
The heat was a real problem on Thursday,
the dress rehearsal.
On Friday, we opened up the whole back hallway there.
Lori Bucar brought in four great big fans,
and we set them all up,
and we were blown an air into the back hallway,
and we left the theater open,
and it was tolerable, and the temperature came down, too.
So Friday was better, Saturday was good,
and Sunday was a wonderful,
the audience, and the players just clicked.
Yeah, we had about 50 to 60 people each performance.
How many?
50 to 60, and that's about what they counted on.
Oh, that's good.
Yeah, so for three performances, figure 150.
Excellent.
Yeah.
It's getting used, that's good.
It's getting used.
And it's been used for corporate meetings.
Kyrs Such Food Hut had their annual meeting up there.
It's been used for community events.
Lloyd Buchar had her kids' theater camp up there.
Cool.
And we had our production of the film.
So we're kind of, we meet tomorrow.
We're going to take a little breather and figure out where we're going,
and that's what we're doing over the summer and what the plans are for the fall.
We have nothing booked over the summer.
Although for September, Pam Bruce's kid, who is now 13, got in touch and has, evidently she has a group of friends, her age,
that want to do a theater performance in September.
So, great, great.
We'll give them any kind of help they need.
And then we're looking at another production of our own, sometimes.
in the fall and another production with the skits, some of being Kyrsardt, sometime in the fall, probably later fall.
Years ago, they had an art show up there.
Yeah, we thought about art show, we thought about line dancing, we thought about a couple of things, too.
You know, and we have people who are able to possibly organize events like this.
The high school does some really nice artwork.
the kids, and if you'd ever do an art show, probably ought to get a hold of the art teacher
and, you know, get some of the kids to donate, not just adults, but some of the kids.
Yeah, yeah, no, we'll get to that. It's slow going, but for having been, had it for eight months now,
we're doing okay. Oh, yeah, you are. Yeah, they even mention it at the,
the Selectman meeting.
Well.
That you guys have been, you know, everything's looking good.
It's getting busy up there, which is a good thing.
Try it.
We're looking now over the summer, maybe spending
some of the money we've taken in on the equipment
and stuff to
fit the place out for audio and lighting
whatnot. What are you doing with
Andrew's equipment?
I'm having a discussion now with
Ron Bryson, a skit about
that, too, because he's
He has an interest in the equipment too.
But I don't know whether we want to make Android an offer from the stuff
or whether we would do better to let him take his stuff
and spend the money on stuff that's a little more geared to that particular theater.
Ron had done some stuff for the production this last weekend and way of renting.
For example, footlights.
When, with the lights that are up there now, they light the people from the top
and because you're sitting down low, see all the shadows underneath the people.
So Ron put five, six, footlights around in the trough where they used to have footlights,
and it made a big difference.
So we're looking at getting some lighting, permanent lighting that would sit down there,
some stuff to maybe smooth out Andrew's four pars we'll see we'll see this takes a lot of
discussion in discussion and figure out what's best for the town for the theater you know and we want
something for the other thing what we can afford and the other thing I'm after which I may be the
only one who's thinking this way but I want to have a system that not only a professional like
Ron Bryson or Andrewerson or me barely can operate but something that's easy
enough that I could teach a 15-year-old kid to operate I mean I hate to tell you this but he
probably could teach you most 15-year-old kids know how to do all the modern stuff that
we barely know it depends I mean if you've never worked for the lighting board before
that's true there are I mean there's the Cessna and there's the 747 yeah
Yeah.
But those young kids are incredible with their knowledge of computers.
They pick up quick.
But if it's something simple and straightforward, I could teach a kid.
Well, that's what you want it to be anyways.
You know what?
What do they have at the high school?
At the high school, they have kids who specialize in AV and they're trained to a more complex system.
They want to go into theater.
I know.
Yeah, that kind of thing.
They know already.
A theater.
A kid like that would have no problem with anything we had.
Yeah, okay.
But what I'm thinking of is somebody who comes in with no theater experience,
is able to set up the stage lights the way they're like.
For example, we had a problem with the Kyrsard Food Up that came in for the meeting.
They just wouldn't need a little light on the stage.
You just needed for overheads, uh,
turned off, you know, because the house lighting wasn't quite enough.
And what that required was dragging up, whole lighting console, hooking the whole thing up,
and, you know, getting all running, and me pushing four sliders up.
You know, but...
Absolutely little.
Yeah, to get to the point where I'm pushing four sliders was quite involved.
Ideally, we need to simplify that to where we can handle a full theater production,
without all the best of Muslims, but enough to handle it.
enough to handle full theater production.
But something that's simple enough that a novice can come in and with 10, 15 minutes of showing them,
they can make things happen.
Awesome.
Yeah.
So anyway, that's where I'm headed.
But, you know, I'll have to argue with people for that.
So that's how the theater is doing.
Yeah.
Which is that.
Curran.
Currie Knife.
was mentioned to, I got Matt's wrong email because he is an email on me back.
Okay, his email address, yeah.
So, and if I had the right one, and he isn't email me back, I'll yell at him.
But, yeah, he said it sent it back to me when I talked to him.
But there's a contact who can help us?
He says there's a guy who can help us with a courier knives.
Okay.
I'm assuming it's for the signage.
Yeah.
The state puts up the signs, I'm sure.
Yeah.
And so we'd have to get one.
to get whatever we view or they view as scenic enough.
Okay.
Yeah.
And I'm sure the bridge will be in it.
Probably.
The pines.
Yeah.
And then you got, was it Westmean?
Yeah.
It's got the historical buildings there.
They're all historical.
They're all historical.
Yeah, one of the best preserved.
Every house is historical.
Yeah.
It's all.
Yeah.
The Pruder's study that was one of the best preserves.
Late 19-70, 20th century, downtown is in the state.
But, okay, so you're working.
So I'm working on that.
And as far as the rails to trails, there is money for it.
I've seen it in the state budget, what have you.
And what the money is used for, I'm not sure if it's for renting from it.
from the homeowners or what, but that's, Matt was going to get me in touch with, he told me the name and I can't remember.
What do you want to know?
That does the state financing for that.
Okay.
What do you want to know?
Rails, the trails.
Rail trails?
Rail trails?
Rail trails, yes.
Well, I know RRex C, we worked on the rail trail from Apple Seed.
Right.
And the bridge, got the bridge on it.
Right.
But then, and then we were planning on, well, we couldn't come down Route 3 because we had a problem to state.
But we wanted to come across and get down where the sidewalk is here and get down towards the cutout.
Yeah, the biggest problem.
But then Blagden, the guy by the last of him, Blagden, he got involved in those disagreement as to how it was.
how it would be done at the cutout.
Well, it was old business though, Jim, as far as that goes.
So nothing's happened locally because she's...
I'm not sure.
There's still where Tim runs the railroad truck.
Well, I don't know what he's, locally no one's doing anything.
We have now a local representative from Bratford on that...
Tim Blankle and runs it.
He lives in one.
Yeah, he's...
He lives in Warner.
He's the one that runs a rail truck.
You know Tom.
and Jack Riley, right?
Yeah, he says they're a son-in-law.
Yeah.
We were doing it locally, and then he took a kind of took over.
Yeah, well, he still is.
Yeah.
He's ahead of that.
Well, that's fine.
Matt was going to give me everything I needed.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah.
Take care of that.
All right.
The one thing I did want to mention,
Mm-hmm.
When I was on up in Bahabah,
we actually took a cruise around
the southern, or the western part of the cave.
And there was a town that was having a
at the school.
And it just reminded me, but
if we could get craftsmen
in that building on the weekends
or anything, just to draw people
into, you know, the one down here.
The farm store? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
You know, we've got to talk with him more.
That's John.
Yeah, who wants a busy chef.
On what shop?
Why do you want to?
He's talking about
doing a maker space
in the old Merrimack
Farm store.
That would be...
He's doing it?
No, Bruce is talking about
that that would be an appropriate use.
Especially...
I said that most of...
Yeah, it's just like up in...
Yes.
Just like up in...
Yeah, but that's what we want.
We'd want it for places where
we could...
Like on the weekend.
we have both in the parking lot
and the building, have the
craft show going on. So we'll bring people
to the town. Have you ever seen the one in Vermont?
Which one in Vermont?
Like which one in Vermont? There's all in one.
No.
Well, a grain store used to do that.
Yeah, yeah. That's a perfect thing.
And they have
they're going to have food, and what happens?
No, our thinking was that
the building is in such bad shape
inside. A maker space
would not require much in a way of dressing up.
Yeah, but...
Are you going to ask him to rent it?
We're going to have to figure out what we want to do.
Yeah.
You know?
But I think, you know, that would bring people to town
and bringing people to town,
makes your businesses, it brings money to town.
His business.
We can go and go.
They're going to eat. They're going to eat there.
What?
I mean, if people come to eat and they come down there,
are they going to eat at his piece of them.
That's fine.
I mean...
But the whole point is you bring in business,
you're bringing money into town.
Bring people in.
They're going to stop at the gas station.
They're going to possibly eat at apples.
As a selling point for him,
yeah.
It's going to bring him money.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
I guess we have to...
Well, I had heard that no, if
a cell or something,
he wants no food in that building.
Which building?
The store?
Yeah.
Well, the...
Well, the...
Space wouldn't have involved.
Wouldn't have bought, yeah.
Yeah, other than that.
You can have the, on the outside, you could have, you know.
I'm guessing that food.
The guy who rends the space to Holly didn't want food in there either.
She doesn't.
Well, that's all his face.
That's all his yard.
Yeah.
So.
Anyway, that's that.
Now, we took pictures.
We took pictures, and I sent him off to Matt,
and I sent him off to Matt, and it said with Brian Brown.
of B.E.A. I've not heard back from Brian yet. He says he'll get back to me. I talked to Matt
on June 5th, whatever day in the week that was. About the Brownfield stuff, he says,
there may be some, because we were talking about the lot seven, the 122.
Yep.
East Bay. And he says, some more the brownfield stuff will be some more.
come around in July, we should check again that, and maybe some money's available to deal
with things there. But we talked about possible...
Exactly one that's contaminated? Yeah. We talked about possible uses for the
sandpit, Jones Road. And he suggested that we get together with the planning board and start
brainstorming things to do with that when it plays out in the town wants to do something
with it, you know, when there's no more sand worth taking out of it.
There's a lot there. There's not that much. It'll last another year, too.
Yeah.
Parking. But two acres you can make up, it's a wonderful commercial.
It is. You could put a... Right at the corner of Jones Road, 114? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's a great
commercial place. Yeah. Wendy's Road. What's up? Did you just say Jones Road? Yeah.
Yeah, the sandpit. Oh down there? The sand pit. The sandpit. Right in front of the
Yeah, Wendy's.
Wendy's. I don't know about a Wendy's. Speaking of which, did somebody
buy or have plans for the old Crafter Junction, the Wicked Suite?
I saw the fire chief over there. I have heard someone was going in there. Yeah.
So it might be going out.
For a breakfast place or something? I don't know. I've heard a couple things. But I don't know that they
don't know that they've gone through or not.
And the ins. I've heard someone
bought the inn. The candlelight.
Yes, that's been, that's gone
through. Oh, when? Yeah. She wants, there's
Ross bought it. No,
not that. No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, they're talking about
the differences that they can may. As an inn, it's
got to have certain licenses.
Right.
The RBO, it's different. And so there was
a bunch of different stuff. But that's still
pretty much in the planning stage
there isn't anything
set yet. But somebody's
trying to move forward. I do
know. Yeah, someone's trying to move forward with it.
I don't remember.
No.
Because I saw the science down
in the rhythm. Yeah.
And so, brainstormed with
the planning board, so I have to
talk to the planning board at the
other end of the driveway.
Yeah, she can talk
with me.
Yep, yep, that's it.
And,
oh, yeah, and
you could do things like
putting out
RFPs where a developer
could come in and
give them the idea that maybe zoning
would be flexible when it's already zoned
for commercial.
It is. Yeah. And give
an idea of what they might be able to
do with the place.
Yeah, well,
out.
What about these down here?
Which the other property?
Yeah.
There was an equipment dealership
that was interested in a few
years ago.
And what?
What kind of equipment?
What kind of equipment?
No, what it was.
We had a special town meeting
with John Pfebel.
Is that what you talked about?
And it was...
Well, it wasn't a special town meeting.
It was town meeting.
No, special.
We had to have a special town meeting.
You mentioned that what this place needs is a small engine shop.
It does.
He used to have one.
Okay.
Well, that's probably maybe why he brought it up.
Well, I don't know if Lumberbarn still does it.
Yeah.
But Dickies used to do it up there.
Yeah.
They used to do it.
And now, if I have anything to do, I have, what's his last?
Ranger Rick.
Andrew Rick, you're regressing it.
Anyway.
There's a guy up on 103 that does it.
Yeah.
Where?
Does what?
Yeah, a small engine.
There's a small engine.
Oh, yeah, there's a...
Is that the one next to the bridge?
Next 89?
He's looking up 114.
Yeah?
Yeah, the one on 114.
Yeah, all out.
Yeah, they're backed up like crazy.
Yeah, because he's the only one wrong, that's why.
Yeah.
I was married to Joy.
It used to be...
Right down below where the garage was.
They did small engines down there, too.
The one that owner owns, that's full of garbage.
McLeod.
She used to be married to McLeod.
Joy.
Oh, yeah.
Her husband...
She was married to Ricky.
Yeah.
And that...
Her husband does small agent stuff.
Yeah.
That lumber barn, they do...
chain saws, that kind of stuff.
Yeah, they used to do larger equipment,
but now we're over there, because
I guess there wasn't the market?
Well, I don't know
if it's, because they would have to hire
probably an actual mechanic
to do the small engine stuff,
you know? So I don't know
if they wanted to get in that.
There's something we could ask them.
No, Farnham used to do it.
Yeah, Farnham used to do it.
But he moved out.
He would be happy.
Yeah, okay.
Farnham was good.
But those people moved out of town.
Were they retired?
I was told there's a guy that'll come around to do, like, lawn mowers or, you know,
not the push kind, but the drive-on-ones and small tractors and stuff.
I'm just wondering if he does quads, because my quads are right?
Yeah.
Yeah, you have to take ours up to the colony, I think.
Yeah, mine breaks down.
I mean, I can go in the Hillsborough, but.
they want an arm in a leg yeah well advertised for somebody well that's what
we're talking about here that's kind of a plate problem first um yeah and then the thing is do we
that building down here would be perfect that's what i was saying that's what they used to
with the three you know garage stores there that'd be perfect with the which one the one across
them uh from the from the old green green green
or whatever it was there.
Yeah.
What about the stair factory?
Colonial stairs.
That's not there anymore, is it?
No, but no, but on electric's in there, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Who's there?
Rockburn electric.
Well, not only him.
Oh, Jason's in there.
Yeah, there's a couple there.
There's a couple there.
And then the building about him there.
The owner's place up top, yeah.
Well, the one with the garage downstairs is ooners place too.
Oh, yeah.
They're both ooners.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You got to talk to owner to get her to get her to move on.
Well, Jason had wanted to buy and one at the top.
I don't know what happened there.
Well, what about pizza chef?
He's got those buildings.
There's a couple of buildings out there.
That could do the same thing, yeah.
Yeah.
What?
There's one shed in the back.
The other's belonged to Bruce.
That's on another piece of property.
There used to be a computer place now.
Yep.
Yeah, the one you said there was a computer place then.
Yeah, that's on Bruce's property.
Yeah.
Then there was an antique place that didn't stay long.
Yeah, that's another whole, though.
People complained about it.
Why?
Because you had stuff outside.
Antiques, that was over on old something around, right?
So, the...
Because they just got out of the business without coming for any permits.
It was Jeff Hershey's place, right?
Mm-hmm.
No, the guy came to the...
He came to a pletting board.
Well, that was part of it.
Oh.
But anyway.
So, yeah, so we need to talk to the planning board.
And he also, Matt was also amusing about how long some things take.
He said he gave the example of the...
Does you have any been any movement on...
Which was finally done.
Finally finished. It took 30 years.
30 years?
Holy! Holy!
Didn't any movement on 501C3?
Yes, that was you.
That was me.
We're kind of stalled.
because...
The bank won't give you the info?
Well, the bank's not going to tell
me because they,
as far as
that company goes,
don't know me from Adam.
What authority do I have to ask?
Do you know who
would have...
Do you know the treasurer?
If they could go in there?
I haven't found who the treasurer was.
Would they tell you who it was?
They won't tell me.
Well, can you ask
Pendleton?
No, what are you looking for?
I'm looking for.
used to handle the money for the old
friends as a Bradford
Bradford Area Community
Center. There was John Rich.
There was Chief Valique. There was
John Perkins. How
do I get in touch with these people? I sent Valicay
emails. I never got a response.
Well,
the select woman that just got elected,
she was on it when it dissolved.
She wasn't
the treasurer. But she'd know who it was.
True.
Who?
What we're talking about?
Devin.
Oh, Devon.
She knows who the treasurer,
or she might know who the treasurer was,
I'm not sure.
She should know.
Because if you get the treasurer's name,
they can go in and get that information.
So,
the bank will give it
to somebody who's on their rights.
The bank will give it to that.
Somebody who was...
The bank will give the information
is somebody who was a signatory to the account.
Yeah.
Which is like giving
the information of somebody who already knows it.
Yeah.
But you need
the information that you need so you can update.
I think yeah, I'll wait on that 501
C-3 until the 23rd
that whole meeting up there.
Well, oh, for the BACC.
Don't, I don't know what they think's going to happen
up there. I'm not even getting
involved because we didn't want to
take it over in the first place.
So they're going to have this big meeting.
I'm hoping they get
all kinds of volunteers
to do what?
The humanities. It's from the
a non-profit organization.
Well, I got a planning board meeting, so I can't go.
Yeah. And if you're coming
in front of the planning board, you won't be going.
I'm going to go.
Okay. Go ahead.
Good.
A lot of people are going because of...
As I said, I got a planning board meeting.
I can't go. Don will be there.
I'm saying something.
They're not saying.
Jeez, not.
You're like
the feathers drifting down.
So, anyway.
So,
it's
the way it's happening.
The way it's happening. The way it's happening with the meeting
on 23rd or?
Yeah.
So, Una
owns that.
One owns three properties, yeah.
So.
So.
Both of those businesses.
If we did find someone,
and I don't know how you would find someone,
unless it's through that state
website thing.
Find someone for what?
For small engines to open a business
here.
You know, that's not really
our business, because we don't have a place
to put anything to go after anyone.
That's a real estate thing.
We can't advertise.
Right, right. No, I'm
just saying, if we
get Una to agree
and she wants to
rent it out, then we
can find... Have you looked at that
building? Have you looked at what's in there?
The garage
or the yellow
I'm saying. The yellow
building that has been in. She's
cleaned it out and
and done some work inside.
To fix some of the outside,
except up, they got to that
top section, and they kind of
stopped up.
I don't know how to have new
glass. We're not into
renting buildings.
No, I know, but hooking up
the person who wants it,
with the person who has it.
Our place, if we can, is to just make connections.
Yep. For people in touch with each.
Yeah, but she said you're going to
advertise or do something. No, no, no, no, that's not.
That's not. You find out
if she's willing to rent
it out, and then
you hook her that up
with people who are looking for a place.
And you can do that just by putting stuff in
Facebook, marketplace.
I don't know. I don't know if that's our
thing to be doing like that.
And drawing business into town
is always a good thing.
It's economic development.
Uh-huh.
Let me just take a closer look at what our
limits are of the committee.
We'd have to find the original
figure out one.
The original one.
That write-up of what our original...
Oh, you could put some...
The mission statement?
Yeah, that thing.
Yeah, that's
that. I don't know,
they're fostering vibrant,
right. Yeah, that's basically
what we just said.
Yeah.
So, that is our business.
To foster the
development of business...
There's nothing wrong with putting an ad in somewhere.
If anyone's interested
in establishing a small engine
business, there is a place
in Bradford that could be available.
In any business.
Huh?
Any one wants
to start a small business and
you've talked to Una and you say
there is space available?
Come and check it out.
It would probably be a
case of talking to
Una and then
maybe contacting a
realtor to...
You know, you never
know because I'm surprised
that how much stuff gets done through Facebook
in or TikTok
or even eBay
to some extent because
people
are looking for stuff
and they have an idea
and all of a sudden they see something
they go, oh, you know
so you never, and those things are
don't cost any money and throw a
advertisement in there.
No, and the Department of Dred
used to
I think they've
divided up the
department, but
they used to
economic
was it
Department of Recreation
and Economic Development
and the state
at the state level.
Does it still exist?
Does it still exist?
Yeah, but I think they
divide it up to...
Yeah, BEA is one half of it.
Business and economic affairs.
I know the grant section is
separate now, too.
Well, that's
so that's who we push it towards. I'm
say, hey, we've got
these buildings.
Yeah, that's supposedly
why I send
stuff to Brian Gross
and I need to check back.
So then you've got to make sure
that the building is
proper to use, too.
Yeah.
I mean, it's been
sit, those have been sitting there
a long, long, long.
Well, you have to get
a building inspector
to go from...
Tom.
And we have a building inspector.
Yes, we do.
So it would be...
Yeah, but that's not
up to us
to get a building inspector.
up to her to get the building.
Yes, yes.
Yes, we understand that.
The whole point is just to have a conversation
and see if she's willing
to rent out and or is looking
for somebody. So just having a
conversation doesn't hurt.
You know, it may be that we
can't directly
get the building inspector ourselves, but
we could push her and how
to go about getting a building
inspector. Is that apartment building up there
soldier? Apartment building.
Right.
Right up here.
The apartment building?
The dentist office?
No. The blue building
that's falling apart.
Oh.
One across the street. It's right next to
which street.
The White House that
she's just cleaned up there
and the little gift shop there.
There's 121.
Oh, on the right?
Yeah. It hasn't sold you.
She owns that there's the first house, which is a little bit.
She was the third one.
She was the third one, right.
And that's up for sale.
Yeah.
No, last I saw, it was still up for sale.
I wonder what they want.
I was talking to Andrew up at the...
I went to she want for it.
I don't know.
I saw Andrew up at the
Recycment Center there, and
he was telling me, yeah,
the real estate in Bradford
is pretty slow right now.
They what?
Real estate in Bradford is going
slower. Yeah.
It's kind of slow a while.
Yeah. Well, a lot of people want too much, too.
Not me sure.
That's the problem.
Because they've got one.
There's like that everywhere.
Four apothea. Yeah.
That's a lot. And you're always
dealing with the market.
Yeah. So how are you doing?
I was bad for buyers or bad for sale.
I was surprised at the end sold. I don't know what the end sold.
Yeah, but that was up for sale for a while.
Well.
It was, yeah.
Some real estate is sold for more than it's advertised for it.
Yeah, the BACC, we're not doing anything about and or with.
They started asking me about it at the Selectman meeting,
the Chip was, and Beth, and then Devin saying,
well, that's why we're having that a whole meeting.
And so they're not going to do anything until after the 23rd,
when they determined that they're basically got to have somebody to run the place.
so it doesn't matter what you want to do.
Is Devon's running that thing on the 23rd?
Uh, no.
No, uh, someone from the state.
Okay.
It's, um, it's just a, it's a humanity thing.
Thing.
Yeah. She's just the link.
Yeah.
That's all.
She put in for the, the grant to do that.
The woman on Miss Washington Road, Lori, she had to do it.
She built a red roof on the house.
I'm hoping to be.
She's not here anymore.
No, she sold it.
Yeah.
She's got like $800,000.
The average house club is you in Bradford is?
You know the average house club do you in Bradford is?
We have no idea.
6.50.
The average house cost for house in Bratford is $6.50.
$6.50,000.
On an acre.
Two acres.
Nobody said, no, some on two acres.
No, I'm on two acres.
average cost of a house. Some of these houses are on 40 acres.
What? Some of these houses are on 40 acres. Some are on true. Yeah. Some are on one,
depending on when they were built. Right. Yeah. The one's on one. Law of record. You could still build on some of them. It's almost a law record and you go through everything else. Yeah. Yeah. But that's what they were saying.
Some of lots are hundreds of acres. How do you have yours? Now you have several.
I have over 100 acres.
Yeah.
I only got 11.
Well, my neighbor is small.
Make Friendly's got 200 or something.
She's got, like, boats in her backyard and everything.
She's a vault in her backyard and everything.
They are, all the famous boats.
I drove by, you know, in the spring, and Fort of Leeds grew up, and I'm like,
damn, Marlene, you got to stop at that there.
My, my son-in-law, my son-in-law, my son-law's father-in-law.
just sold one of ours.
Are you connected to the lake at all or no?
Yeah.
I'm on the river.
The river's in the back.
And it's deep enough to run a boat through it or no?
Oh, yeah.
She got a dock.
Do you have a jet ski up there?
Do you have a dock to run it?
She's an old river rat, yeah.
It's, uh, it's, see a lot of kayakers go by.
Yeah.
We have a connection.
your take out?
Oh, that's, that's small.
I thought, I'm talking,
you get a powerboat through there?
No, no.
Well, we'll just put a bridge to go under.
You've got a bridge to go under.
And there's a dam, rock dam.
You could never get over that.
It has to be, you know, it has to be
a kayak or a canoe, yeah.
But it's still one way to get
into the water without going far.
Oh, it's fun. We used to go out every
night in the canoe.
You go fishing?
No.
Good.
Go on about 6-7, 630
until the furry butterflies
came out. I did not like them.
Furry butterflies?
I had
a lot.
The cross news was hated butterflies.
You know, they are butterflies.
They're bats.
Furry, furry butterflies.
You call bats. You call
bats furry butterflies?
They're the furry butterflies on it.
I said, I'm going in.
I don't want them in my hair.
Yeah, all they won't.
Unless there's a box.
No, don't like.
We had one in my sister's house.
It was funny as shit.
We opened the door, and he was, I guess, just hanging right next,
or right near the light for the bugs.
Yeah.
And it scared it.
And it went into the end.
And we had to freaking get it back out.
We had a flying squirrel.
A flying squirrel come down on our chimney into the house.
to get them all the time and find squirrels.
You don't want them in your house.
They're cute.
They'll keep them on your window so.
We do have stuff to follow
up on.
Which you're going
to follow up with that guy in when it stayed.
I'm going to follow up with Matt.
And
probably I guess this guy, Tim.
What do you need Matt for?
Tell me that email.
What do you need Matt?
Monty hit for.
Currier and knives.
Yeah.
He knows who I'm supposed
to talk to.
Oh, yeah, he's pretty shut.
I just don't know what I'm doing wrong when I used.
I'm sorry, him last week.
So you're falling up with Matt and Tim.
I'm falling up with Brian Gross of B.E.A.
Anybody doing anything with John or Hooner yet?
I don't know them.
Yeah.
I don't know them.
Who?
I'll go with you.
you?
John, who owns,
a manor at a farm store,
who owns?
Well, I know John.
You got to call and make an appointment.
Yeah, he doesn't run the place anymore.
His son does.
I know John really, well.
Yeah.
I usually walk in there about like it in the morning.
He was in there and back.
Yeah, no, you call and make an appointment.
I can go with it.
Just let me know with.
I'll have to.
All right.
And the problem of that is it.
gutted on the inside.
Well, that's why the idea the
maker space was good because they
require very little
Yeah, they don't
hear the sheetrock.
Well, but I'm saying
you're going to make sure that
tools. It's safe.
Yeah. I have no idea.
I haven't seen the
inside work.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Probably reasonable
walls. So that's pretty much it
then, right?
It keeps
the one of two capital hours.
I make a motion
to adjourn.
I
I think we are.
All in favor?
I, aye, aye.
You know something
petition the select board
to make you a member?
What's the date of our next meeting?
She did?
Yes.
Got your warning and everything?
Yes.
Oh, goodness.
What's the date of our next meeting?
Welcome.
I don't know.
It's the next time I get paid.
Whenever that
that company said it was
me my money again.
Third Wednesday.
Third Wednesday.
Yeah, what is it?
I don't have a phone.
Hold on.
I don't have my phone.
I have mine.
I don't own one.
I don't have cell service where I am.
I'm surprised that you, you know, you can do it through Wi-Fi.
If I'm within range of the Wi-Fi.
Yeah.
And if I have a phone that, if I have one of those smartphones.
All right, July, one, two, the 15th.
Okay.
15th?
Yeah.
July 15th.
I got a gun.
It's the first.
is on a Wednesday.
At seven o'clock at night you have a desk appointment?
No, it's at four.
You'll be back.
You'll be done by this time or not.
It's a crown.
I don't know how long it will be.
They don't take that long.
Trying to get out of it, I hear.
I was here today.
Two hours.
All right?
Okay.
Turn your things off.