01-07-2008, 07:07 PM
Well it certainly is Agricultural to me when I go to a neighbor's house and do Vet work that no Vet on side Puna will do! Doctor up a goat that was gored by another. You have to go to Weimea Assoc. The "traveling doc" won't even come out to see a injured goat.
So as I'm driving across these side roads to and from her house over these UNMAINTAINED roads, to nurse her goat. I think of the responses on this "punaweb" and the appearant Victory of the bedroom community and it reminds me of what happened in Orange County. Orange Groves, into house to house to house. To F....Bad! But not here.
I see the McMansions going in next to old single walled landscaped by hand mini farms. Most friends of my in the park have or had chickens. Goats and cows. Used to get my milk on 10th. Goat milk on 26th. Now the goat needs help. So I'm there.
A neighbor needs help with albizias hanging over his "sub-contracted" cracker-jack box, by the profiteers. Open your eyes. You move from San Diego, San Jose to San Diego in the Pacific? The new OC? The new Maui?
Have to fix our own potholes, too?
There were people who were here before 2003 and the "oh let's move to puna" idea, who built their chicken coops and planted their veggie gardens, orchards, flowers, pakalolo, and now houses. Less of the latter since the war. But they moved out here to be in a RURAL setting. The roads were better, there was NO traffic! WE could walk our dogs from our middle of the road to the end and back and not have one car pass by. So many contractors, burglars, and new residents you can't tell who is who. Except the robbers they can. Was a call this evening to the cops who never showed up, for a burglary call, they be back. Just like fish. We make a net.
There are still a few blocks that don't have bumper to bumper new box houses. I saw one today sided with plywood not T1-11, and laughed. Because the T1-11 has been selling as the finished wall here for years, on these overpriced ill constructed glut of houses we now have. With the albizia seedlings growing in the rain gutters. But that is not nearly as funny as buying a house made with 2x6 trusses that were sitting on the job site in the rain for 6 months getting acclimated?, Finished with thin gauge tin over 2x4 pearlings and Sheetrock. IF that's not going to stop an albizia branch from coming through your roof on a Kona wind storm. I don't know what will.
So for some it's about self-sustenance and we'll be here long after those that don't, because we know how. Not because it getting more trendy to do so, but because it's closer to the culture that was here and not the one you came from.
What do the roads have to do with the change in culture? tree kids on a golf cart zippin down Paradise Dr. hanging a left onto 18th, 2 sitting one standing on the back bumper holding on to the roof. cut left, right in front of a car. With more, bigger, newer, ever growing facade faking, houses take each lot one by one, it's going to be a not a nice place to live anymore pretty soon.
Doesn't matter, but someone had better light up Paradise Dr. someone's going to get run over out there. Not me, we're up with the sun, down with the moon. Rarely drive at night with the drunks.
So as I'm driving across these side roads to and from her house over these UNMAINTAINED roads, to nurse her goat. I think of the responses on this "punaweb" and the appearant Victory of the bedroom community and it reminds me of what happened in Orange County. Orange Groves, into house to house to house. To F....Bad! But not here.
I see the McMansions going in next to old single walled landscaped by hand mini farms. Most friends of my in the park have or had chickens. Goats and cows. Used to get my milk on 10th. Goat milk on 26th. Now the goat needs help. So I'm there.
A neighbor needs help with albizias hanging over his "sub-contracted" cracker-jack box, by the profiteers. Open your eyes. You move from San Diego, San Jose to San Diego in the Pacific? The new OC? The new Maui?
Have to fix our own potholes, too?
There were people who were here before 2003 and the "oh let's move to puna" idea, who built their chicken coops and planted their veggie gardens, orchards, flowers, pakalolo, and now houses. Less of the latter since the war. But they moved out here to be in a RURAL setting. The roads were better, there was NO traffic! WE could walk our dogs from our middle of the road to the end and back and not have one car pass by. So many contractors, burglars, and new residents you can't tell who is who. Except the robbers they can. Was a call this evening to the cops who never showed up, for a burglary call, they be back. Just like fish. We make a net.
There are still a few blocks that don't have bumper to bumper new box houses. I saw one today sided with plywood not T1-11, and laughed. Because the T1-11 has been selling as the finished wall here for years, on these overpriced ill constructed glut of houses we now have. With the albizia seedlings growing in the rain gutters. But that is not nearly as funny as buying a house made with 2x6 trusses that were sitting on the job site in the rain for 6 months getting acclimated?, Finished with thin gauge tin over 2x4 pearlings and Sheetrock. IF that's not going to stop an albizia branch from coming through your roof on a Kona wind storm. I don't know what will.
So for some it's about self-sustenance and we'll be here long after those that don't, because we know how. Not because it getting more trendy to do so, but because it's closer to the culture that was here and not the one you came from.
What do the roads have to do with the change in culture? tree kids on a golf cart zippin down Paradise Dr. hanging a left onto 18th, 2 sitting one standing on the back bumper holding on to the roof. cut left, right in front of a car. With more, bigger, newer, ever growing facade faking, houses take each lot one by one, it's going to be a not a nice place to live anymore pretty soon.
Doesn't matter, but someone had better light up Paradise Dr. someone's going to get run over out there. Not me, we're up with the sun, down with the moon. Rarely drive at night with the drunks.