10-4 Bud, everyone my age around here talks about Portland like its the holy land but I'm definitely more at home here. The big cities can keep the crime, overpopulation, traffic, taxes, etc. Hey at least we don't have to worry about tornadoes. Hope the air is clearing up down your way like it is here
I'm 100% with ya there... It's nice tonight, no visible smoke, but I still smell smoke kind of, but there's ash/soot/dust everywhere too, they are up-to 30% contained now, 10% more than yesterday it progress at-least... 200,000 acres & still growing, they're also saying the smoke will come our way again tomorrow morning, 21 area schools are all closed & even Walmart was closed because of air quality... I don't shop there, I saw it on our local news site @
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The damn city moved out to me! I grew up in this area and even tho Houston wasn't that far, it was still a ways out but now, it's like one continuous town all the way to Galveston Bay. Doesn't seem like it was that many years ago that we had dirt roads all over the place. Even the 2 lane blacktops are now 6 lanes wide with a center turn lane.
I can totally relate Cranky... I keep moving farther & farther away, from the population & it keeps creeping towards me... My family is originally from SF, Oakland, Berkely & Danville areas, my mother & Pops moved out to the suburbs, before I was born, in Concord Ca. 1959, it was a nice quaint little East Bay suburb town, with something like under 20,000 population, just a bunch of walnut orchards around town, with a few cattle ranches, a few main roads, really spread out, allot of room, something like 4 stop-lights, nice family friendly neighborhoods, not an apartment building in sight,
not now !!, it's well over 300,000 now & gridlock, way too much crap for me.... I moved to Palmer Alaska for a while, to help out my sister, but the economy tanked up there & housing dropped like a rock, people bought houses like crazy in the Matsu Valley when they were almost free for the taken, contractor losing money right & left, building homes & apartments, for a boom the was actually a big bust, it grew way to fast for my liken's, I moved back to Concord again, so I could get more work & raise a family better... I then latter moved to Rancho Murieta, a nice quite smaller gated Golf community of 2500 pop., in eastern Sacramento County, about 20 miles from greater Sacramento, housing is almost all the way, to it now too, I moved to Eastern Sonora area, after I purchased my house & sold Pops cabin in MiWak Village, up the hill like 15 miles, "for way more than it was ever worth", then I sold my place in RM... Now here I sit, this county doesn't really grow much ever in population, actually has gone down recently... We have allot of blue hairs & vacation homes/properties up here... Cost a little more to live up here, heating, gas, food, etc., is all more, but worth every penny, for sake of my sanity... well Usually anyway...
much better for racing here in Calif. too, well when they don't try to close our tracks down anyway...
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I hear about the fires you guys get "brutal", makes me feel like a whiner when I complain about the endless rain. Glad to hear your hanging in there and already have a rescue plan in place for the RR "hate to see it damaged". "Maintenance free yard" boy wouldn't that be nice (grows 2-4 inches in a week around here). We went to Yellowstone right after the big fire they had "I can't imagine living near that, it was a mess". Hang in there Bud.
Thanks 747mopar I appreciate it... I have a bunch of stuff ready & a nice place to keep my RR if it ever comes down to that, lets hope it doesn't...
