Wednesday, October 16, 2019

same stuff, different day


I laid everything out on the kiln shelf and there was still room enough for another pansy so I made another one yesterday. 


I have no idea what I am going to do with them. The fungus/lichen I have a plan for. I guess we'll see how they come out, maybe I can turn them into some sort of jewelry.

I have nothing of interest to say. Yesterday I did the dishes which had piled up and sanded down the last dry feather base and made the second pansy and picked up pockets full of pecans on my various strolls through the yard and set the sprinkler out to water the azaleas under the pecan tree that lost all those branches earlier. They get a lot more sun now.

Today it's raining. Woke up to a trembling dog who could hear the rumbling of the approaching rain before I could. The thunder has stopped now but the rain continues, the good kind of rain, not torrential, not a sprinkle, but a good medium rain that hangs around and soaks in and does not overwhelm the gutters. That seems to be a rarity these days.

I'm having to limit my social media/news/human input again as it just either makes me sad or pissed off or hopeless or raises my blood pressure or makes my afib kick up even on the medication. No need to reiterate it here as I'm sure everyone is well up on the continuing travesties of this administration. I can't do anything about it except vote and I can't do that til over a year from now. Expressing anything but pro-Trump to our Republican representatives and senators just falls on deaf ears. Even if they agree privately they won't come out against him because they are afraid Trump will turn on them in his vindictive way and of course he will. And that makes me even more hopeless that so many of our elected officials are cowards that refuse to stand up for what's right because, OMG, Trump might give them a demeaning nickname.

Oh, maybe I do have something to relate. You might remember that last May I saw a couple of guys traipsing across the back end of my property and headed across my neighbor's property and to the road at the end of my street where their car was parked. When I went out and asked if I could help them it turned out that they had bought the 12 acre field behind us and they were checking it out though they hadn't decided what they were going to do with it. The only clear access to the field is from business Hwy 59 (also called Richmond Rd.) which borders one end of the field. The other end is bordered by the street that my street ends at and is a complete dense and tangled mess of trash trees, wild grape vines, briars, poison ivy, and who knows what all. This is the area that I call the wild space that ends at my property and it is constantly trying to encroach. One long side of the field is bordered by all the backyards of the houses on my street and the other long side is bordered by the Tee Pee Motel (now defunct again as the owners elected not to fix up the freestanding teepee rooms after the flooding from Harvey) and the attendant trailer park. So a couple of months ago one of my neighbors related that he had been stopped by an asian couple (the two men above were asian and only one spoke english) who were parked at my end of the street as he started out on his evening walk. They had bought the field and wanted to put a trailer (or maybe it was a manufactured home) on it and did he know what it would take and how they could get access to their property. So Gary gave them the rundown...they would have to put in a bridge over the ditch, either the business 59 end or the wild space end which would entail clearing a path, they would need water, a septic system, and electricity. They didn't seem to understand why they couldn't get access through someone's property from our street and they pointed to the drive through my crazy neighbor's empty lot, except for her storage buildings, that gives perfect access to the field as her property and mine are the only two on the street that aren't fenced in the back, well my absent neighbor's property on the end is effectively fenced by the wild space.

All this is leading up to yesterday morning. I looked up to see a familiar white car parked on the street and a man and woman got out and headed across my neighbor's property and mine so I went out and talked to them. I was friendly but I let them know they were crossing over private property. We chatted for a while, only she spoke english. She didn't mention putting a trailer on the field but she did say they wanted to plant a garden, grow vegetables and fruit, that we would be neighbors. Sounds great I said. She wanted to know what it would take to accomplish it, did I think any of my neighbors would sell their property so that they could have access to the field. That's a big no. I don't understand why they are so fixated on getting access from my street or even setting up whatever they plan at my end though I wouldn't want to live at the other end with the constant traffic down business 59. I do understand why they wouldn't want to clear a path through the wild space but the far end of the field just needs a bridge across the ditch. Anyway, I told her they could probably get electricity easily enough off the poles at the trailer park and perhaps they could get city water from the fire hydrant line at the wild space end even though we're in the county, not in the city limits, but that would entail clearing a path. They could dig a well and would need a septic system. Did I know how much that would cost? $7000 - $9000 each. Anyway, they left and I assume headed to city hall or looking for the county offices.

Well, the rain has stopped for now and it has brought in more cool weather having dropped 14 degrees since I got up this morning. Looks like I'll be wearing my long yoga pants for class this evening.





19 comments:

  1. Strange. Sounds like reasonably nice people but I would keep an eye out on them. Don't go and get on social media. What is wrong with you? I cut ties with that mess long ago and I'm better for it. I don't miss the social mess at all on FB.
    We only got an inch of rain out of that rain from last night all the way into 6am this morning. At least we got something.

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    1. FB keeps me in contact and connected to the art glass world. that's the only reason I still have an account. we got 2" of rain!

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  2. Well, that is a bit mysterious. One would think that they would have looked into the process of getting a house onto the land and having it hooked up before they bought the property. But who knows?
    It is supposed to get down into the fifties here tonight after our rain yesterday. I can hardly imagine that.

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    1. I think they bought it initially as an investment opportunity. I'm glad they have decided to put a house and garden on it. anything else would be disastrous.

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  3. People without a plan for their plan are so interesting in their intrigues to advance the plan.

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  4. My, my, a conversation like that would have me worried. However, I worry about everything and it does me no good.

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  5. I was thinking about the pansies. Why not make small trinket boxes and put the pansies on the lids.

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  6. Sounds to me like they need to have a conversation with someone at the county offices about how to make that land habitable.

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    1. OK, based on your description, I had to get on Google Street View and check out the Tee Pee Motel. What a bizarre place! I love quirky establishments like that, though it sounds like its days may now be numbered. :(

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    2. the woman in the county permit office says they have been in to see her and she has given them the info they need so we'll see what happens next. the Tee Pee Motel had been abandoned for 20 years and in terrible shape (poison ivy covered the little buildings and snakes in the walls) when a local man won the lottery, he and his wife bought it in 2004 and refurbished it and added the RV park. apparently, after the first flurry of interest, reservations were down and when they flooded after Harvey they opted not to restore them so now it's just the RV park. my house is across the field at the RV park end.

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  7. That's a pretty pansy you made.
    The new neighbours sound a bit scattered. I mean would you not check out this kind of stuff before you buy land? I would hate to lose a wild patch nearby where probably lots of insects and other animals live. We just dedicated a section of our "lawn" to go wild and are eagerly waiting to see what will grow there.

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    1. it's a pretty big space and if they opt for that end I think they would just clear a driveway through. I think they bought the property as an investment opportunity. that's what I gathered the first time I talked to them. I'd much rather see a home and a big garden there than another RV park or any other kind of development.

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    2. the pansy will change color dramatically once it is fired I think. I haven't tested this color yet but I think the pink will darken considerably.

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  8. People without a clue buying land by your property makes me nervous- experiences for us have not been great. Your little pansy is a sweet beginning for whatever it decides to become! Clearly this country is out of any semblance of control, a wild child gone berserk, Chicken and rice seems to calm me down, and the latest shenanigan dumping on the Kurds has brought a few Republicans out of the dark. I have HOPE!

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    1. I'm glad they seem to be wanting to use that land for a home and garden rather then some sort of development which I feared after I talked to them the first time. I was thinking I would have to put up a tall privacy fence. some repubs may have come out of the dark but they are still standing in deep shadow. the only two people to stand up to Trump and his minions are both women, the ex-ambassador and Nancy. did you see that picture Dumbf released of him and his buddies getting schooled by Nancy?

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  9. I love the pansy! And I'm intrigued by the intrigue. And I'm absolutely disgusted by the lunatic in the white house. I think that sums everything up :)

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  10. Pansy is adorable. The Tee Pee motel cracked me up. I'm envisioning tee pee shaped individual stucco units. I don't really understand why anyone would buy a field without access to begin with..?

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  11. Sounds like an improvement on the previous plan for that land. Good news, relatively speaking.

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