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Conveniently and perfectly situated for loafing, lounging, doing nothing, puttering in the garden, fishing, beach combing, and forgetting about work except on Mondays through Fridays when you have to go to it, and on "scary Sunday" afternoons.

Enjoy breeze from all directions:  the salty south, the balmy Atlantic storms of early fall, watered-down winter from the West and tame little nor'easters filtered through the forests of Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey, the overpowering perfume of your neighbors ultra-strength laundry detergent, and sometimes all of these at once!

If you like people, you will love the influx of fast-driving Southern Pennsylvanians and day-trippers from the countryside all around that begins on Memorial Day weekend and ends when the kids go back to school.   Emergency response vehicles will scream up and down the street several times a week to attend to drunken or careless beachgoers and boaters.

If you don't like people, you will be happy to know that as fall wears on, transients leave for Florida soon after the geese come back.  Now you can breathe a sigh of relief and take back the beach, streets, and alleyways for twilight dog walks. 

You never know what you might find, see, or hear on each short walk or trip into the yard.

They don't build them like this any more.  Solid wood balloon framing, topped by a pyramid- shaped attic space with dormers facing all directions: north, south, east, west, heaven, and hell.  Crumbly plaster and lathe, coated with ancient wallpaper, coated with paint for extra stability.  On a stormy night, the wind will make ghostly howls as it seeps between the cracks and crevices and tries to get in through the old coal chimney.  An airy covered porch on two sides will roast you only on late summer afternoons and shade you the rest of the time, and is not screened and therefore will not protect you from flies and mosquitoes.  Speaking of coal, you can find it right here in the yard, especially beside the back door and near the garage.  Jackpot!

Don't ask us about the basement, because we don't know.

The fenced yard will allow your dogs and cats unfettered hunting of squirrels and rabbits.  Have unhurried conversations with your dearest, most annoying friends and family members, hateful or suspicious neighbors, and quirky folk, and the various neighborhood cats, squirrels, owls, vultures, and mockingbirds who return to the same nesting places in your yard and neighborhood year after year.  The people who live here are lucky and unlucky, depending upon their outlook day to day.