Happy Friday to all the wonderful citizens in the City of Claycord.
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Cowellian’s first.
This may be the weekend for Christmas decorating.
Not here, Cowellian – rain, rain and more rain!
neither snow nor rain nor heat, dot dot dot.
No, here it is already February.
I got the outside lights up before the weather goes bad, and I got the tree up. So, Mrs. Cowellian can take her time getting the tree decorated to her satisfaction.
My girlfriend broke up with me because I didn’t understand irony, which is ironic because I was standing at a bus stop at the time.
I’m pretty generous with comedy
if I can see the effort
But I don’t get this one.
Please explain.
Friday. Again. Already.
😁
Wind – One
Fence Zero
Yeah. Now I’m glad I ignored city regs and put the shed way too close to the fence. It’s holding up a leaning 90′ run. A couple fruit trees are in charge of the other half of the fence. 😂
Our new expensive fence bumped out another 9 feet was almost done, waiting on second steel gate when storms hit. Looked out and section of old fence was down, grabbed long screws, drill and stuck it back up. Blew down again, putting it back up when it blew down on me. After figuring out how to un-genga it said, !#@K IT.
When you finish it…and have time… I could use suggestions on how to get neighbors to kick in a fair share to replace a horizontal redwood fence (with any kind of cheap ole wood). Redwood posts and top boards finally gave out at 60yrs old. I might be able to salvage the old growth main boards with some trim at nail ends where rusty nails have helped rot wood… but need a fence craftsman to do that, I think~~not a “I can do fence” guy waiting outside Home Dep–! Another neighbor put up a standard out of the box looking fence… says it cost a bit over $8K for under 200 ft. 😨
The anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy. I was a teenager in my native Denmark, I was staying with my aunt in Copenhagen, we were watching TV when the first bulletin came and then a little bit later the confirmation that the President was dead. I will never forget my aunt outburst “my God they killed him”. That weekend I went back to my parents, and my friends, family and most of Denmark did what the American’s did we sat glued to the TV. On that Saturday I went to a jazz club close to where my parents lived. Although most of us was between 17 and early twenties, we didn’t really feel like partying. There was a band, and we danced, but the conversation was all about the event in Dallas.
My dad, who was politically astute was a great admirer of Kennedy, he especially liked how he dealt with the Soviet Union, which was a concern to us, considering the proximity to Denmark.
I have an alibi if that’s what you getting at.
Thanksgiving joke
If you call a big turkey a gobbler, what do you call a small one?” “A goblet.
Harvest House is closing down – very sad.
That’s a shame and a loss for the community. Another retail establishment headed for closure.
Shopped there many times. Many natural foods and health places have closed. Apparently we’re supposed to eat artificial foods and listen to artificial minds.
Younger people prefer to buy things online, especially items where you don’t have to worry if the size fits, color etc. Actually, older people that are computer savvy also buy online. I know my girl friend in New York, buys a lot online. She has a bad knee, don’t have car and her husband is not mobile, so just the past few years, she has been buying more and more online.
Last week I went to Walmart, which I rarely do, it is too big I get lost. My heating pad that I use for my bad back stopped working. I do have an extra one, but I wanted to replace the one that broke. Looking at Walmart’s website they had several in the price range I was looking at. However, when I got to the store the only had about 3 different ones, and they were the cheap variety, So I will buy one from Walmart’s Website or Amazon. Since I was in store, I decided to buy other things I needed, they do have good prices, and I spend about $80.00.
Thankfully the city of Concord is waiting until
2025 to announce which areas will be used for
the affordable housing.
Feel bad for any that may lose their business.
Their business is used to pay for their lives,
mortgage , and to put food on their tables.
Telling them to move and to increase their
costs is not fair and will cause irreparable
damage
Lzk,
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This is a rezoning, but it doesn’t mean any high-density affordable housing projects will be built on these retail locations. It’s up to the current owners or new owners of these properties, if they choose to build high-density affordable housing on these sites. You’re making it sound like businesses on the rezoned sites will be forced to move as soon as the City of Concord determines which sites will be rezoned, that isn’t the case at all.
Concord, and the rest of CCCo needs to stop letting SF/Alameda counties tell us what we have to do.– Or a governor that lives in his exclusive gazillionaire’s neighborhood in MARIN Co, because (in his own words)~ Sacramento and their schools are too f’ing low-class for ‘his kids’ — !
In California suburbs it’s become an “if you build it they will come” situation. Build for the lowest income…the lowest income will become your new neighbors. More stores and services will cater to low income, Your property values will go down…while your taxes continue to go up.
And it is not a case of NIMBY any longer. We have allowed ourselves to be pushed waaaay too far over that line.
In this Bay Area, It’s a case of other counties “gentrifying” their old “hoods” and shoving out their low income AND us generously over-importing people who, sadly, for generations — never – ever intend to carry their own weight. Not as long as they can have some others subsidize them.
~~~ I’ll quit! You all know not to get me started 😉
No Excuses,
.
The incoming Trump administration will likely reverse these AFFH policies. Unfortunately, the State of California may then adopt and inforce these policies.
I suspect that much like the (financially driven) Military Industrial Complex that IKE warned us all about… the Builders’ Trades across the Nation have more than a little bit to say about the current Who What Where the HUD (our) dollars should be deployed.
An interesting find:
What went wrong with the Housing Act of 1949?
While envisioned to address the national housing shortage by transitioning families from “slums and firetraps” into safer public housing, the Act failed to recognize the cost of destroying the well-established communities in which these families lived.
Recommended images/story: https://www.segregationbydesign.com/boston/the-west-end
75 years! They’ve learned nothing!
But they have flipped their TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC! White Middle Class must merge~~ ~~downward. Moving back toward the original EU design of only TWO Wealth Classes.
Interesting and some funny PICs.
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https://izismile.com/2024/11/24/top_20_posts_of_the_week.html