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Post by Jessiealan on Oct 14, 2016 13:49:56 GMT -5
Enjoy your visit and your weekend, mouse. It is bright, sunny and warm today. It has been a fairly busy day so far with two doctor appointments, now over and done with.
My church is having a fish fry and rummage sale this evening. The idea is either to buy or donate. Any money collected and all clothing and good-as-new household items will be used to help the needy. There is a special emphasis on outer-wear (coats, jackets and sweaters). We look forward to the chance to get-together with good people doong good things. The fish is usually delicious.
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Post by mouse on Oct 15, 2016 4:38:22 GMT -5
coldish morning with the odd shower or so
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2016 11:47:17 GMT -5
coldish morning with the odd shower or so about the same here except a steady rain....no errands to run so shall stay inside today
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Post by mouse on Oct 15, 2016 11:52:50 GMT -5
coldish morning with the odd shower or so about the same here except a steady rain....no errands to run so shall stay inside today well the sun came out later and it was a lovely afternoon...rain tomorrow though unfortunately
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2016 11:59:29 GMT -5
about the same here except a steady rain....no errands to run so shall stay inside today well the sun came out later and it was a lovely afternoon...rain tomorrow though unfortunately you get to much rain and California not enough...does it ever balance out?
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Post by mouse on Oct 15, 2016 12:04:46 GMT -5
we had some one staying with us from another country...ant they couldn't get over the green lushness or even the varieties and shades of green..and that's all down to the rain
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Post by beth on Oct 15, 2016 12:14:24 GMT -5
Jessie, I hope you had a nice time last night. I'm thinking "seafood" of some kind this evening, maybe go out to Red Lobster for shrimp.
Chef, you're getting the side effect from the heavy winds and rain that hit north of you, I'll bet.
Mouse, I hope you have a great rest-of-the-weekend. It's in the 80s F and sunny. AC humming along. lol
Off to run errends.
later
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Post by Jessiealan on Oct 15, 2016 13:10:33 GMT -5
Thank you, Beth. I over ate and am not the least bit hungry today. Mouse, you should be very proud of your beautiful country, and I have no doubt you are. We had a shower this morning but now, everything is nice and dry, and warm. We collected exactly 50 winter coats and jackets to donate to needy families, last night. 8 of them were for children which made us very happy.
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Post by annaj26 on Oct 16, 2016 3:25:05 GMT -5
I'm just off work and home til Monday. Happy weekend all.
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Post by mouse on Oct 16, 2016 4:36:58 GMT -5
Thank you, Beth. I over ate and am not the least bit hungry today. Mouse, you should be very proud of your beautiful country, and I have no doubt you are. We had a shower this morning but now, everything is nice and dry, and warm. We collected exactly 50 winter coats and jackets to donate to needy families, last night. 8 of them were for children which made us very happy. its beautiful ..but sadly is getting less so due to urban spread and some very poor designs ...the best we can do is try to protect as best we can ..from developers and planners
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Post by mouse on Oct 16, 2016 4:44:39 GMT -5
a silent sunday morning ..daughters away for a couple of weeks..though she will pop in every now and then... grandson 2 is still asleep and will leave at some point this afternoon along with son2 who came yesterday to see if there was any thing I wanted before he leaves on Monday for Paris he tells me there is a possibility of a good commission when he comes back..so am happy about that and hope it comes to reality apart from that its dull with light rain
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Post by mouse on Oct 16, 2016 7:59:12 GMT -5
I'm just off work and home til Monday. Happy weekend all. make the most of it Anna...enjoy
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Post by Jessiealan on Oct 16, 2016 21:04:52 GMT -5
Thank you, Beth. I over ate and am not the least bit hungry today. Mouse, you should be very proud of your beautiful country, and I have no doubt you are. We had a shower this morning but now, everything is nice and dry, and warm. We collected exactly 50 winter coats and jackets to donate to needy families, last night. 8 of them were for children which made us very happy. its beautiful ..but sadly is getting less so due to urban spread and some very poor designs ...the best we can do is try to protect as best we can ..from developers and planners We have that problem, too. I notice it particularly around mid-sized cities. It seems to take about 2 decades from the time the sprawl begins (green space bought up and turned into shopping malls or tract housing), but after that, it accelerates. A shame. "You don't know what you've got til it's gone". Joni Mithell
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Post by men an tol on Oct 16, 2016 22:15:29 GMT -5
its beautiful ..but sadly is getting less so due to urban spread and some very poor designs ...the best we can do is try to protect as best we can ..from developers and planners We have that problem, too. I notice it particularly around mid-sized cities. It seems to take about 2 decades from the time the sprawl begins (green space bought up and turned into shopping malls or tract housing), but after that, it accelerates. A shame. "You don't know what you've got til it's gone". Joni Mithell I think that you are correct Jessiealan. In fact, I am coming to believe that we have traveled far enough down this road of ‘developing’ that we may have passed a point of no return. However, that is too simplistic as an answer, rather we may have moved into incentives that provide that allow no other direction. My community (I believe) may be a good example. I suspect that we can agree that developers have provided the insight as to type and direction of development, with those developers having some vision, sort of like a small army comprised of many Frank Lloyd Wrights each holding some insight that we of more common vision do not understand except in the narrowed view of the rear view mirror. However, I am beginning to believe that such developers are no more exceptional (in terms of a vision) than any of us and, they are responding to far more mundane incentives provided by others with less insight than the rest of us. Here I speak of purely economic incentive with such programs as Clura (City Limits Urban Revitalization Area) and TIF (Tax Increment Financing). Such programs have no vision but rather simply bring economic incentives to developers who will build just to acquire these moneys. The original intent of such programs were to bring revitalization to blighted areas and use delayed taxation requirements to develop greater future property taxes coming into the city to relieve (in the future) tax pressures on property tax payers (primarily residential). But after more than 20 years these areas have increased in number and been expanded and extended father into the future with no property tax relief realized and blighted areas growing (today our abandoned houses have grown to nearly 500 from about 150 some 20 years ago. It seems the only benefit has been developers gaining control of easy to acquire funds and additional profits. These programs have been developed by State Legislatures and federal enactments applied through HUD, neither of which are known for developing visions of building. Moreover, most of these funds (taxes) seem to be applied to new unused lands rather than revitalizing current deteriorating-structure stock. The point here being that these programs are being defined and driven by governmental individuals not native to our communities, sort of a developing just to develop.
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Post by mouse on Oct 17, 2016 3:08:32 GMT -5
bright morning ..going to a friends funeral this afternoon ..which will be unpleasant as several relatives have crawled out of the wood work.. 3rd and 4th cousins..like spectres at the feast theve come for the pickings.... having been no where for the last 80odd years suddenlythey appeared as long lost relatives who tried to make them selves indespencible ...money money money
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