What did you accomplish today?

too larry

too larry

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lokie said:
Progress is not always progress. A 2nd light may help traffic but sure alters everyones day.

I can walk to 4 big box fast food joints. In a 10 mile radius there are 5 shopping malls, 3 Walmarts, 5 brand name grocery stores,
4 or 5 micro breweries and to many convenience store/gas stations and mom and pop eateries to count.

Mexican restaurants are on the rise. 6 have opened in the last 5 years, only 4 are still open.


The face of my neighborhood has changed drastically over the past 30 years. Progress is not always progress.o_O
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There are more folks around my farm. I've lived there on and off for the last 58 years. When I was a kid there was one house up the road toward the highway. Grandparents house was at the other end of the road. Great Aunt lived just across the field. The lots down at the river had just a couple of weekend camps. Made with tar paper and chicken wire. There was one house on the river, but on a bigger piece of land, not a lot.

Now there is 10-15 house out toward the highway, and about that many on the river. It's not uncommon for me to have 4-5 cars go by when I'm working in the garden of a morning.
 
too larry

too larry

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
i live in a tourist town, and they have the lights here set up to move blocks of traffic. it helps when the traffic is actually heavy, but it's annoying as hell to sit for 3 minutes at a light for no one....i've suggested to the city several times that they alter the lights between midnight and 7 am, make them run at double speed so you aren't sitting waiting for a block of traffic to pass that isn't there....but they don't seem to like the idea...or perhaps they can't do it themselves....or they just really like annoying the people who live here, who are the only ones out at that time...
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All the lights in Panama City were timed to get folks to the beaches as fast as possible. After the hurricane they had to rework it.
 
too larry

too larry

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raratt said:
I'm missing a major part of the equation though, the Banya. I'm just a young 60, AND it doesn't snow here. I could go sit in the grow room for awhile and dump a glass of ice water on myself...
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I built a sweat lodge down at my river camp. The real Creek lodges are built with willow trees planted in a circle and the branches woven together to create the dome. Then blankets are thrown over it to hold in the heat. I used Yaupon and PVC to make mine. Missed out on all the good karma that comes with willow {rebirth}. But I did plant red cedar trees as prescribed and had the fire in the right place.
 
too larry

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The wife and I worked on the tree tops in the back yard yesterday. I want to save as much of the fence as I can, so we cut the ones on the fence and piled them for burning.

I got back out there today, but concentrated on cutting broken trees off so I can drag the whole tree. About two hours yesterday and half that today.

I'm thinking Gray Stone wasn't too happy about the trees getting cut. {I got most of the downed trees in that area cut off. I just need to clear a spot to drag them to}
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curious2garden

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
You've had much practice my dear.
The door thing is one I had never thought of, but is poetic in it's simplicity.
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Thank you :) The pure shock when they realize their door is missing is priceless.

raratt said:


This is a good thing, our biggest reservoir is the snow pack, and it looks good this year.
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Don't worry they'll still jack our water rates
 
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