11-20-2007, 07:12 AM
Thank You Cat
I agree with you in theory.
The county and state also can't tie it up so in essense the lot owners are "stuck" able to do nothing and no end in sight.
I am also talking about people who bought years and years ago, not in the last 2-3 years where the situation was already in progress and acknowledged the situation and now crying foul.
One major issue I've come across is that same, "it's how we've been doing it" mentality. That needs to educated. I had neighbors who for 20 years pruned their 2 acres of guava next door and tossed the branches onto the neighboring empty lots and across the street. All for sides. Then the between us was bought and they were asked not to throw them onto to lot between us. A temp. hog wire fence was strung up, tacked to trees, ohia posts temporary, but good enough to keep dogs in. They started stacking the branches against the fence, in the fence, piled 6' high the legnth of the fence from road to back of lot, eventually pulling down the fence. Burried it. When asked to, Please move your branches of the fence. The reply? "You want em moved, you move em yourself". Thus the begining of my puna community involvement and introduction to the "county system". Got educated and found it to be a loosing battle. One I've picked up and let go several times in the last 1/2 dozen years. Too much stress and frustration. It's hard to teach the unwilling.
Just because something has been done a certain way for a long period of time doesn't mean it will always be so. Times change things have to change with it. Do we always have to change it the way of everyone else?
Can we be inventive?
I'm gonna post "Peter's Law's" here because
even though they have my name I am not the author but it must say something that Peter's may think a like. Don't know don't know any others.
NOTICE and Disclousure
( These are to be taken with a light heart and a sense of humor)
PETER'S LAWS
1. If anything can go wrong. Fix it! (To hell with Murphy!)
2. When given a choice—Take Both!
3. Multiple projects lead to multiple successes.
4. Start at the top and work your way up.
5. Do it by the book…but be the author.
6. When forced to compromise, ask for more.
7. If you can’t beat them, join them, them beat them.
8. If it’s worth doing, do it now! Don’t procrastinate.
9. If you can’t win, change the rules. If you can’t change the rules, then ignore them.
10. Perfection is not an option. Remember the Persian Flaw.
11. When faced without a challenge, create one.
12. “No” simply means begin again at the next higher level.
13. A Bureaucracy is a challenge to be conquered with a righteous
attitude, a tolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary.
14. When in doubt, THINK!
15. Patience is a virtue, but persistence to the point of success is a
blessing.
16. The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live.
Knowledge Wisdom Compassion Creativity
KEEP PUNA RURAL
I agree with you in theory.
The county and state also can't tie it up so in essense the lot owners are "stuck" able to do nothing and no end in sight.
I am also talking about people who bought years and years ago, not in the last 2-3 years where the situation was already in progress and acknowledged the situation and now crying foul.
One major issue I've come across is that same, "it's how we've been doing it" mentality. That needs to educated. I had neighbors who for 20 years pruned their 2 acres of guava next door and tossed the branches onto the neighboring empty lots and across the street. All for sides. Then the between us was bought and they were asked not to throw them onto to lot between us. A temp. hog wire fence was strung up, tacked to trees, ohia posts temporary, but good enough to keep dogs in. They started stacking the branches against the fence, in the fence, piled 6' high the legnth of the fence from road to back of lot, eventually pulling down the fence. Burried it. When asked to, Please move your branches of the fence. The reply? "You want em moved, you move em yourself". Thus the begining of my puna community involvement and introduction to the "county system". Got educated and found it to be a loosing battle. One I've picked up and let go several times in the last 1/2 dozen years. Too much stress and frustration. It's hard to teach the unwilling.
Just because something has been done a certain way for a long period of time doesn't mean it will always be so. Times change things have to change with it. Do we always have to change it the way of everyone else?
Can we be inventive?
I'm gonna post "Peter's Law's" here because
even though they have my name I am not the author but it must say something that Peter's may think a like. Don't know don't know any others.
NOTICE and Disclousure
( These are to be taken with a light heart and a sense of humor)
PETER'S LAWS
1. If anything can go wrong. Fix it! (To hell with Murphy!)
2. When given a choice—Take Both!
3. Multiple projects lead to multiple successes.
4. Start at the top and work your way up.
5. Do it by the book…but be the author.
6. When forced to compromise, ask for more.
7. If you can’t beat them, join them, them beat them.
8. If it’s worth doing, do it now! Don’t procrastinate.
9. If you can’t win, change the rules. If you can’t change the rules, then ignore them.
10. Perfection is not an option. Remember the Persian Flaw.
11. When faced without a challenge, create one.
12. “No” simply means begin again at the next higher level.
13. A Bureaucracy is a challenge to be conquered with a righteous
attitude, a tolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary.
14. When in doubt, THINK!
15. Patience is a virtue, but persistence to the point of success is a
blessing.
16. The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live.
Knowledge Wisdom Compassion Creativity
KEEP PUNA RURAL