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Post by badmedicine on May 17, 2013 18:49:57 GMT -5
...lookin' out my back door...part "deux". This little plum grove sprung up on it's own a few years ago. I assume some animal must have buried some plums from elsewhere on the property. They couldn't have picked a better spot...it's exactly where I would have put them, lol. By summer's end, they'll be covered with some weird vines that grow all around here, forming a natural gazebo. And some hyacinths. These have been around since my great grandmother lived here. For years, only two or three ever came up anymore, but they're starting to come back now that I thinned some of the growth. Next up...lilacs & the flowering crab tree. They should be blooming any day.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2013 4:37:19 GMT -5
how much property do you have badmed?
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Post by badmedicine on May 18, 2013 10:31:36 GMT -5
how much property do you have badmed? 57 acres...17 up front where the buildings are & a back 40. There were originally 350, but it got sold off before my time.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2013 11:45:25 GMT -5
how much property do you have badmed? 57 acres...17 up front where the buildings are & a back 40. There were originally 350, but it got sold off before my time. holy crap batman... i have just over an acre but border a state forset, so i gets the acreage w/ no taxes.
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Post by clusterchuck on May 18, 2013 12:29:48 GMT -5
...lookin' out my back door...part "deux". Very nice badmed. 57 acres? How do you mow that much? 3 acres here up I haven't used a mower in years. Xeriscape all around. Here's a couple from my place... A songbird pays a visit. If you look closely, there's snow on the mountains way in the distance.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2013 16:38:35 GMT -5
...lookin' out my back door...part "deux". Very nice badmed. 57 acres? How do you mow that much? 3 acres here up I haven't used a mower in years. Xeriscape all around. Here's a couple from my place... A songbird pays a visit. If you look closely, there's snow on the mountains way in the distance. that view in the 2nd pic is quite to my liking there cluster ....
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Post by badmedicine on May 18, 2013 17:41:13 GMT -5
<holy crap batman... i have just over an acre but border a state forset, so i gets the acreage w/ no taxes.>
The taxes are $%#$@ing killing me. It's almost like extortion. They used to be cheap around here if you lived in the country, but they've come up with all sorts of scams to keep jacking them up...recreational value, timber & mineral value...they've even tacked on some sanitation tax, which I've yet to get any plausible explanation for. And they seem to think I'm living in the Taj $%#$@ing Mahal, even though everything's falling apart faster than I can keep up. What they're doing is trying to tax the regular people out so the developers can get their hands on it & it's happening all around me...little subdivisions, campgrounds & wealthy people slowly taking over. I'll hang on as long as I can though...still have a few cards to play.
Nice view, Cluster...where's that if you don't mind my asking?
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2013 17:49:40 GMT -5
Very nice badmed. 57 acres? How do you mow that much? 3 acres here up I haven't used a mower in years. Xeriscape all around. Here's a couple from my place... A songbird pays a visit. If you look closely, there's snow on the mountains way in the distance. that view in the 2nd pic is quite to my liking there cluster .... Nice view there Chuck. Don't see much smog in the air either.
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Post by clusterchuck on May 18, 2013 18:45:00 GMT -5
[/img][/url] If you look closely, there's snow on the mountains way in the distance. [/quote] that view in the 2nd pic is quite to my liking there cluster .... [/quote] Nice view there Chuck. Don't see much smog in the air either. [/quote] It is very nice. The night view is great too. And New Year or July 4th is pretty exciting from up here because we can see the celebrations from several cities. Whenever working outside, I gotta remind myself to look up and enjoy. That view is looking north east across the Escondido Valley, the snow cap is the last mountain range before Borrego Springs, which is a fabulous place to see the desert in Spring Bloom. Funny thing about smog. California air quality board has tightened regulations so much that Georgia Pacific doesn't manufacture plywood in the state anymore. It's really great how clean the air has become, but it comes at a pretty steep price, like jobs associated with industry. Although on warm days when the air isn't moving, we do get some grey, mostly from all the cars I think, with a little agricultural haze mixed in. On those days, the photo-chemical sunsets can be fantastic. Always looking on the bright side, huh? Another company that left California is Buck Knifes. They got sick of the crap state the legislature kept dropping on business so they moved to Idaho (I think) taking with them a bunch of jobs from the city of El Cajon. Truckers, packaging suppliers, printers, office supply companies, ETC, ETC, ETC were all impacted. Oh well, the price we pay for living in a nice place. Back to air quality, when I was a kid growing up in Santa Ana, they used to have smog days. The air was so bad, there was no playing outside, it would make your lungs hurt. You couldn't see across the play ground. REALLY BAD. Dad was a Marine, so we moved quite a bit. Eventually, I moved back to Orange County. It was 1976 before I even knew Saddleback Mountain existed. And it was only a few miles away from where we lived in the 60's. Amazing. Now, smog days never happen. Which is a really great thing. Sorry to pattle on.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2013 20:19:37 GMT -5
[/img][/url] If you look closely, there's snow on the mountains way in the distance. [/quote] that view in the 2nd pic is quite to my liking there cluster .... [/quote] Nice view there Chuck. Don't see much smog in the air either. [/quote] It is very nice. The night view is great too. And New Year or July 4th is pretty exciting from up here because we can see the celebrations from several cities. Whenever working outside, I gotta remind myself to look up and enjoy. That view is looking north east across the Escondido Valley, the snow cap is the last mountain range before Borrego Springs, which is a fabulous place to see the desert in Spring Bloom. Funny thing about smog. California air quality board has tightened regulations so much that Georgia Pacific doesn't manufacture plywood in the state anymore. It's really great how clean the air has become, but it comes at a pretty steep price, like jobs associated with industry. Although on warm days when the air isn't moving, we do get some grey, mostly from all the cars I think, with a little agricultural haze mixed in. On those days, the photo-chemical sunsets can be fantastic. Always looking on the bright side, huh? Another company that left California is Buck Knifes. They got sick of the crap state the legislature kept dropping on business so they moved to Idaho (I think) taking with them a bunch of jobs from the city of El Cajon. Truckers, packaging suppliers, printers, office supply companies, ETC, ETC, ETC were all impacted. Oh well, the price we pay for living in a nice place. Back to air quality, when I was a kid growing up in Santa Ana, they used to have smog days. The air was so bad, there was no playing outside, it would make your lungs hurt. You couldn't see across the play ground. REALLY BAD. Dad was a Marine, so we moved quite a bit. Eventually, I moved back to Orange County. It was 1976 before I even knew Saddleback Mountain existed. And it was only a few miles away from where we lived in the 60's. Amazing. Now, smog days never happen. Which is a really great thing. Sorry to pattle on. [/quote] Thats interesting, my dad retired from the City of Santa Ana and he lived in Orange County for 25 years, we loved to visit had the beaches, Knotts, Disney, etc, etc etc.. I flew thru LAX a couple of weeks ago. The airport with all the buses and cars the air quality wasn't that good, but it is a small place relatively speaking. I always loved SC but not enough to try to move there, seemed like paradise back in the 60's-70's I was just a small town boy then. When I retired I thought about retiring to San Diego, that was when real estate was still roaring strong, short story, couldn't afford it then. Have a good evening!
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2013 6:02:52 GMT -5
well you can thank those silly EPA regulations that the big bad intrusive govment for that aside from the 'normal' air & noise pollution from cities that i don't miss, but also the light pollution. out here the streetlights are at a minimum & at night, it's SO dark. PERFECT for star gazing & seeing the celestrial planets when they come around earth's neck of the woods....
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Post by clusterchuck on May 19, 2013 10:32:45 GMT -5
well you can thank those silly EPA regulations that the big bad intrusive govment for that aside from the 'normal' air & noise pollution from cities that i don't miss, but also the light pollution. out here the streetlights are at a minimum & at night, it's SO dark. PERFECT for star gazing & seeing the celestrial planets when they come around earth's neck of the woods.... Yep, the EPA certainly has it's positive attributes. Negative too. I'm about 5 miles as the crow flies from the Mount Palomar observatory. When they built it in the 40's it was far away from any city. It was an amazing engineering feat just getting the building materials up that mountain back then. Although it's still really dark, it's not quite like the desert where star gazing with the naked eye is amazing. Speaking on celestial bodies, using 11X80 tripod mounted binoculars, Saturn and Jupiter are pretty impressive when viewed from here. I use Google Star Maps which a very cool app for locating stuff in the sky.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2013 10:36:52 GMT -5
well you can thank those silly EPA regulations that the big bad intrusive govment for that aside from the 'normal' air & noise pollution from cities that i don't miss, but also the light pollution. out here the streetlights are at a minimum & at night, it's SO dark. PERFECT for star gazing & seeing the celestrial planets when they come around earth's neck of the woods.... Yep, the EPA certainly has it's positive attributes. Negative too. I'm about 5 miles as the crow flies from the Mount Palomar observatory. When they built it in the 40's it was far away from any city. It was an amazing engineering feat just getting the building materials up that mountain back then. Although it's still really dark, it's not quite like the desert where star gazing with the naked eye is amazing. Speaking on celestial bodies, using 11X80 tripod mounted binoculars, Saturn and Jupiter are pretty impressive when viewed from here. I use Google Star Maps which a very cool app for locating stuff in the sky. my kid took astonomy for part of his natural science course & the program is amazing to see deep space. i think those words are part of its name.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2013 10:39:44 GMT -5
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Post by badmedicine on May 19, 2013 10:50:34 GMT -5
well you can thank those silly EPA regulations that the big bad intrusive govment for that aside from the 'normal' air & noise pollution from cities that i don't miss, but also the light pollution. out here the streetlights are at a minimum & at night, it's SO dark. PERFECT for star gazing & seeing the celestrial planets when they come around earth's neck of the woods.... I once saw a photo comparison of the US from space, one was from when they first started sending up cameras & the other was sometime in the 90's. In the first one, about the only light visible was from the major cities...now other than a few parts of the west, the whole country's lit up. Another thing I find absurd is people who live in rural areas & have their whole place lit up like a beacon.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2013 16:34:56 GMT -5
<holy crap batman... i have just over an acre but border a state forset, so i gets the acreage w/ no taxes.> The taxes are $%#$@ing killing me. It's almost like extortion. They used to be cheap around here if you lived in the country, but they've come up with all sorts of scams to keep jacking them up...recreational value, timber & mineral value...they've even tacked on some sanitation tax, which I've yet to get any plausible explanation for. And they seem to think I'm living in the Taj $%#$@ing Mahal, even though everything's falling apart faster than I can keep up. What they're doing is trying to tax the regular people out so the developers can get their hands on it & it's happening all around me...little subdivisions, campgrounds & wealthy people slowly taking over. I'll hang on as long as I can though...still have a few cards to play. Nice view, Cluster...where's that if you don't mind my asking?
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Post by badmedicine on May 20, 2013 18:09:54 GMT -5
Yup, seems like they put up parking lots everywhere except where they need them.
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Post by clusterchuck on May 26, 2013 21:29:46 GMT -5
...lookin' out my back door...part "deux". A rare double rainbow...
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2013 5:31:05 GMT -5
...lookin' out my back door...part "deux". A rare double rainbow... awwwwwww a rainbow baby!!!
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