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--- On Wed, 12/31/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:


> 
> Which is one reason I don't see why you keep talking
> about things returning to 'normal'.  In my mind,
> there is no normal...it is fluid and always changing, always
> different.


******  I guess I keep using an incorrect expression.  You are absolutely 
correct.  Things are fluid, and everchanging.  I guess what I mean is more 
consistency in the fluidity , when I use that expression
> 




> I think we are all talking, as James says, at cross
> purposes with you. You talk of maintaining wealth, we talk
> of maintaining life and lifestyle.


*******  Bev; I have to pay for that life and lifestyle, just as you did.  
You were younger and healthier when you made your move.  Would you be as 
quick to move today , in this economic environment, without knowing you could 
finacially handle evrything up front?  Mayber I would if I were alone.  I 
could just build a little lean-to, plant a big garden; and go into town with 
a few bucks every so often when I needed companionship.  But, that is not my 
life.
 




> 
> As to why one needs more than 5 acres,,,,animals...In these
> parts, a horse needs 5 acres minimum.  It is hard to grow
> your own food(animal or vegetable) on a postage stamp sized
> piece of land.

******* I know that Bev.  It was a rhetorical question that could be asked by 
others, who want someone, other than them, to be taxed  Unless things have 
changed, Ted Turner is the largest private land owner in this country.  His 
buffalo 'need' that room to range.  Do you think anyone cares?  The argument 
(the one I broached) is not valid.  I don't think such a tax would even be 
Constitutional.  But , a lot of invalid arguments gain strength, for 
different reasons, in this country.  And , goodness knows, our politicians 
barely seem to care or even know what the Constitutions expects and demands..





> Bob, pardon me for asking, but what good does it do if your
> wife won't move?


******Bev; the question is multi-faceted in real life as would be the answer, 
which I might, with you, discuss privately, but not openly; 
> 

> 
> To me, your 'being rural' is about location only,
> it seems, a temporary solution, a retreat.  I don't see
> you 'living' rural, I see you returning to the city
> when you see things 'returning to normal'.
> 

******  You might be right, Bev.  I don't think so, or I wouldn't be 
hastening my plans.  I'm a little too old to be going back and forth very 
many times; but, you could be right





> So when are you making your move, Bob?

******  I'll let you know, when and where, first, Bev .  :-) 





p.s. I like your new signature quotation

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>  brethren, and to do good is my religion."
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