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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Ch Ch ch ch changes...
  • Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:36:31 -0500

Bev, tell your snooty neighbors that in the upscale east of New York and
Connecticut, a house on a dirt road has country cachet and commands higher
prices than homes on paved roads.

Give us advance warning of when you are coming. We will invite Don & Trishia
over and I will make pizza.

Gene

On Oct 15, 2010, at 12:35 PM, EarthNSky wrote:

> My homesteady neighbors, George and Nancy, are moving and have bought a
> house in Arkansas near the Bull Shoals dam. This is the guy who taught
> me to gut a deer, render lard, hunt...OMG, just know I am going to miss
> them. They invited us out for a vacation and I told Ron that I wanted to
> go. They are both extremely talented artists. Nancy can do anything with
> paint and George is equally talented but also makes knives and forges other
> metal artwork. He was a friend of Mr. Nelson, the guy in the Foxfire books
> that makes the horse carriage. They are good people and I am so sad that
> they won't be my neighbors anymore. They gave this valley character, and
> it is really hard to see them leave, but I totally understand that this
> place has changed in the years since her daddy bought all this land. It
> has changed just in the 12 years we have been here. Granted, the changes
> are slow, and I still say that I made a good decision on picking land with
> a 15-20 year buffer against new developments, but it definitely won't be
> the same without George living on Rock Creek.
> I know that is really, really close to you, Gene, and some others on this
> list that I would like to see, so I think we will heading to
> Arkansas/Missouri sooner than anyone knew. I definitely want to fish on
> the river and see some old friends and meet some of you fine folks. Ron's
> monk brother lives nearby in Ava as well.
>
> The new guy who bought George's place is a rich architect from Atlanta.
> They plan to use the house as a weekend getaway so that their kids can ride
> 4 wheelers and experience the country. They mistakenly think they can ride
> them on the forest service roads and land..they are in for a rude
> awakening. I have heard all kinds of things about them...they ripped
> native flowering vines out of a small tree...they did not know what turnip
> greens were when they saw them...the kids were not minding the parents and
> were extremely unruly and disrespectful...they were playing with George's
> axes and throwing them, causing him to have to resharpen everything.
> I am holding my breath and I'm trying not to prejudge, but what I have
> heard is not good. The winds of change are blowing...
>
> Speaking of changes, it is kind of a joke...
> A mile or so down the road there are 3 or 4 'new neighbors' all Atlanta
> escapees who have moved here in the last 4 years. One of them started a
> petition to get our road repaved. It really was the most horrific paved
> road I've ever driven on and you literally drove an obstacle course
> swerving to hit only the shallowest of potholes instead of the larger,
> deeper ones. We live at the tip of the loop, which is 3.5 miles in from
> either direction. Most folks only had half that distance to drive, but I
> ran the full gauntlet. It was tearing up peoples' suspensions in their
> big trucks..lol... So anyway, they took this petition around and from peer
> pressure, I signed it. There was only one resident, the local 'crazy' guy,
> who refused, and I really should have joined him because I was thinking
> that if the road was paved better then there would be more traffic, more
> dope dealers, more teens racing, and more development. This is a 7 mile
> long loop, and there are 5 or 6 ritzy houses on the other side of the loop
> that had a decently paved section of the road. They even have a fire
> hydrant (county water access) and DSL other there. Alas, though, we are
> back in the hollow, the poor hill billies, and the county has overlooked us
> more than once, which really is a blessing in many ways. But I digress..
>
> So we sign the petition and less than a month later, a new sign goes up at
> the entrance to the loop-"Loose Gravel", and within a week, they are
> ripping up the road surface and laying gravel. They have packed it down
> and it is better than having all the potholes, but everyone hates it. All
> the new people, including the rich folks on the other side of the loop that
> did not sign the petition are now up in arms because the county has left us
> with a gravel road..lol..I actually this is hilarious and once it rains
> good and settles the dust I think the new gravel road will be fine. At
> least no one will be racing and no one will get their trucks damaged. It
> is horrible for our bikes, though, and the rich people will probably get
> their way and have their little half mile repaved. It has to be a sign of
> the times that a paved road becomes a gravel road. I could be a conspiracy
> theorist and say that the rumors for this valley long term might be true..I
> have long heard that this might become a new reservoir for drinking water
> for Atlanta..it makes me wonder if this valley and my home might be
> underwater in 100 years...maybe I should move to Arkansas or Missouri, too.
>
> B
>
>
>
> --
> EarthNSky Farm 34.498N 85.076W
> SISU! (Finnish--There is no single word in English that encompasses
> all that sisu means, but it combines the following ideas: guts, pep,
> determination, stubbornness, perseverance, hardiness, stamina, go, do,
> nerve, spunk, pluck, and grit. It's like "Just Do It!"& "Go for It!")
>
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