Higgs wrote:So just to confirm, that's not your house and doesn't affect you personally in your day to day life?
Huh? My kid and I had to walk underneath that beam this morning going to school.
OK, sorry. I think I have the wrong idea about your HOA. I imagine a group of detached dwellings in a loose neighbourhood with nosey fucks on the board deciding what you can and can't do on your property.
I see you are in a communal apartment situation with common areas and shared spaces. In Australia we have professional 3rd party strata managers who handle all that stuff.
Higgs wrote:So just to confirm, that's not your house and doesn't affect you personally in your day to day life?
Huh? My kid and I had to walk underneath that beam this morning going to school.
OK, sorry. I think I have the wrong idea about your HOA. I imagine a group of detached dwellings in a loose neighbourhood with nosey fucks on the board deciding what you can and can't do on your property.
I see you are in a communal apartment situation with common areas and shared spaces. In Australia we have professional 3rd party strata managers who handle all that stuff.
And again, those contractors are pathetic.
Yeah, one twelve unit building. Central courtyard that everyone must pass through to get in and out of their units. We have property management options in the US too, and while they make sense for larger buildings like high rises, it wouldn’t be worth the expense for a smaller building like ours, so we self manage. Normally, there isn’t much to oversee besides bills and assessments.
spike wrote:Had to fire off an OSHA threat before 7am. Builders just left this huge beam resting on top of the scaffolding three stories up. Residents have to walk under this to get to their cars, the trash bins, etc.
Foreman said they’d be here over an hour ago to move it back onto the roof, but of course no sign of anyone yet.
2 good friends coming over later this afternoon to stay until Sunday...not much planned other than eat and drink...making a dutch oven full of short ribs for tonight
doug rr wrote:2 good friends coming over later this afternoon to stay until Sunday...not much planned other than eat and drink...making a dutch oven full of short ribs for tonight
doug rr wrote:2 good friends coming over later this afternoon to stay until Sunday...not much planned other than eat and drink...making a dutch oven full of short ribs for tonight
Range balls and a 6 pack
the guy in the group of 2 is a pga teaching pro..if weather permits we'll hit a bucket or 2 I'm thinking
doug rr wrote:2 good friends coming over later this afternoon to stay until Sunday...not much planned other than eat and drink...making a dutch oven full of short ribs for tonight
Range balls and a 6 pack
the guy in the group of 2 is a pga teaching pro..if weather permits we'll hit a bucket or 2 I'm thinking
doug rr wrote:2 good friends coming over later this afternoon to stay until Sunday...not much planned other than eat and drink...making a dutch oven full of short ribs for tonight
Range balls and a 6 pack
the guy in the group of 2 is a pga teaching pro..if weather permits we'll hit a bucket or 2 I'm thinking
doug rr wrote:2 good friends coming over later this afternoon to stay until Sunday...not much planned other than eat and drink...making a dutch oven full of short ribs for tonight
Range balls and a 6 pack
the guy in the group of 2 is a pga teaching pro..if weather permits we'll hit a bucket or 2 I'm thinking
doug rr wrote:2 good friends coming over later this afternoon to stay until Sunday...not much planned other than eat and drink...making a dutch oven full of short ribs for tonight
Range balls and a 6 pack
the guy in the group of 2 is a pga teaching pro..if weather permits we'll hit a bucket or 2 I'm thinking
spike wrote:Had to fire off an OSHA threat before 7am. Builders just left this huge beam resting on top of the scaffolding three stories up. Residents have to walk under this to get to their cars, the trash bins, etc.
Foreman said they’d be here over an hour ago to move it back onto the roof, but of course no sign of anyone yet.
that looks like a wiley coyote trap.
Didn’t want this to go unnoticed
I appreciate you.
96583UP wrote:i recently bought travel-size packets of metamucil
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
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