Subj : Re: Greetings
To   : Carol Shenkenberger
From : George Pope
Date : Sun Oct 17 2021 13:37:25

 > Sometimes, you have to let people know that they can ask?  They may not
 > think of it because in your neck, no one has before?

Makes sense.

 > Here's close to a recent one over where I am:

 > 'I'd like to start a small community helper project, where a few of us do
 > simple things for others, materials donated or they provide.  Things like
 > painting sheds, fixing a wooden fence, caulking windows for winter'.

So after you get a request, you start posting requests for people &/or
materials?

 > This became quite popular.  Some of the workers are handymen who volunteer
 > to teach other handymen, a new skill set.  Say you are a roofer by trade but
 > would like to make yourself a brick firepit.  You find a project doing
 > brickwork and volunteer to help.  Others are as simple as stacking fireplace
 > wood for older couples (often you get a good amount of free properly aged
 > split wood in return).

Nice! So how do you get the people interested in learmning a new skill as well
as someone who is skilled as mentor?


 > 2 months ago a friend got a new shed and a team of us showed up to caulk
 > then prime and paint.  Last month a disabled lady got told a 'hitching post'
 > (cosmetic) fence had to come out.  HOA passed a new rule or something.  We
 > made a flower box base around it and planted it with climing ivy and pink
 > Azelias... (legal per HOA).

I don't think we have HOAs up here, but I'ved read enough stories of the ones
all y'all have, & I can only respond with "forn*cate HOAs!"

We have strata councils9in condo complexes & they're as bad & my attitude
towards them is the same. I could neverlie in a condo complex unless I could
afford to buy 51% of the square footage, so my voting choices always win; not
to be a d*ck, but just to ensure fairness. I'd abstain most votes, but when
they try to pull something stupid &/or cruel, I can jump in & veto it. :D 

So, no condoi life for me. . oh well.

I'm hesartbroken I eon't be living in hearing & smelling distance of dozens of
people.  I want what my dad retired to: up in the woods, with empty acreage on
all four sides of his home.  He stayed until the government sold off one of the
sides for development. . . :(

Your friend,

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Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
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