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How I empathise with you packleader. Around The New Forest, where I live, a number of communities have the word "Wood," as a suffix. One such place is Verwood. Once known as Beau Bois by the Normans after the 1066 invasion, Beau Bois translates into Beautiful Wood/Forest. In Old English that translated into Fayrewood, over time fayrewood corrupted into Verwood, it's still beautiful.

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This is one of the greens at The Crane Valley Golf Club on the edge of Verwood. This link will take you to the meeting that discussed the Dorset Local Plan and the proposals for future development in Verwood, including the plans for up to 1,000 houses at Crane Valley Golf Club.
Now you know why I feel your pain.
 

horseless carriage said:
How I empathise with you packleader. Around The New Forest, where I live, a number of communities have the word "Wood," as a suffix. One such place is Verwood. Once known as Beau Bois by the Normans after the 1066 invasion, Beau Bois translates into Beautiful Wood/Forest. In Old English that translated into Fayrewood, over time fayrewood corrupted into Verwood, it's still beautiful.

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This is one of the greens at The Crane Valley Golf Club on the edge of Verwood. This link will take you to the meeting that discussed the Dorset Local Plan and the proposals for future development in Verwood, including the plans for up to 1,000 houses at Crane Valley Golf Club.
Now you know why I feel your pain.
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It's going on everywhere. People need places to live. Any open area is at risk for development right now. And with the dwellings come the cookie cutter shops........and the traffic.
I find it amazing when they say we've lost a generation and need to procreate. I guess I understand it. Our generation needs to die off to make room.
Never mind this..https://www.seniorforums.com/threads/imagining-a-future-after-the-singularity.101743/
 
First, going to the gym for weights, balance, abs, etc.

Then, working for a while on something I'm writing.

Then, going to a local assisted living/rehab center, first to visit a friend, then to give someone a ride home after she teaches a class there. She's 85 and still teaching French!

Wife is out all day so there will be some dog walking in between other activities.
 

Morning all, on my early walk at 6:50 temp was 72, breezy as I walked around building once before breakfast. I won't be leading the Striders walk club this morning since its raining. Instead I'll be doing paper work
At 11 will attend monthly Resident Council meeting,hear from our different committee heads
The rest of my day after lunch read NYT, if its stopped raining may go out for afternoon stroll
Enjoy your day all
 
Morning all folks....I'm late! Woke at 4am, stayed in bed and woke again at 7am, yay!!! Coolish at 64deg here, will warm
to 75 or so....think we got a bit of rain last nite from the looks
of it all.....does not look like the critters disturbed the pumpkin
a bit....guess I was tottaly wrong about that situation, ah well...not the first time I've been mistaken.....
Feeling pretty good, cept for achy shoulders, also the tinnitus
is really roaring for last couple days...well enuff of that, y'all
have a great day no matter what!!!!!:love::giggle::devilish:
 
Afternoon Peeps of SF... It's racing towards 4pm here.. overcast but warm. It's been an absolutely busy manic day.

first I had the designers here and the architect.. because I'm having a new utility put in, and added to the kitchen.. so they had to spend a couple of hours designing everything to my satisfaction...
Also during that period the neighbours over the back were having all their trees lopped severely.. the trees are about 50 feet up.. and they were having about 20 feet cut off.. and so quite a lot of it was falling over onto my land.. so it meant that those tree surgeons had to come and clear all the big branches off my land, and put them into a chipper... ..so they were in and out of my garden, and as well as the designer and planner...

I;ve never had so many people in my house since the X left..lol

Anyway the plans look fabulous .. and they're going to do it next month ... so in the meantime, I have to look for a new matching Washer & dryer .
They told me if I time it right for the delivery of the new machines.. then the builders will fit them for me......

...so now I have to spend some time looking at reviews of new machines.. ... and choosing a matching pair...


After they left, I went over to the farm because they have a pumpkin fest going on.... shame the sun wasn;t shining ...

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packleader said:
It started this morning: over 200 new houses will be built a quarter mile from us. Luckily it's not my main hiking area.

Five years ago, the orange groves were shredded; and several times I saw survey crews (the yellow jackets at the far right.)

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Left: This morning I watched a machine digging deep holes, probably for the required percolation tests. That's the beginning.
Right: We are standing where houses will be built, as well as on the other side of the ravine.

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24 acres are reserved as nature preserve; hopefully it's the wild area where we are. My pups instinctively are guarding every direction for danger.

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PS, my new 12 months old, 60 pounds Boxer puppy "Rex" tries to rearrange my room. Well, to me it looks like chaos.
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Where I live used to be a wide spot in the road. It was mostly farms, and there was a town but not so's you could really tell. I can't remember why I was there -- just accompanying my mother's friend.

Now, all these many years later, the vast majority of the farms are covered in house. What really gets to me is that these subdivisions are filled with single family homes that cost $500K and up -- and they all look alike and have small yards! It gives me the creeps. Stepford Houses. Luckily the Atlanta area is well-know for its abundance of trees, so the armadillos and squirrels and such have a places to live. It's not just solid concrete or anything.
 
WheatenLover said:
Where I live used to be a wide spot in the road. It was mostly farms, and there was a town but not so's you could really tell. I can't remember why I was there -- just accompanying my mother's friend.

Now, all these many years later, the vast majority of the farms are covered in house. What really gets to me is that these subdivisions are filled with single family homes that cost $500K and up -- and they all look alike and have small yards! It gives me the creeps. Stepford Houses. Luckily the Atlanta area is well-know for its abundance of trees, so the armadillos and squirrels and such have a places to live. It's not just solid concrete or anything.
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whenever I see houses built in precisely the same and exactly the same as each other... this song always pops into my head..


 
Today was a RED letter day. I have not been talking about it because so much could go wrong. So here is the brief version…city where my son’s trashed house is cited him basically for urban blight. Fines are huge. So…he let a junk yard haul off three cars!!!!!!! I thought he would implode at the last minute…he thinks the cars were “evidence” that he had been vandalized. He just does NOT remember trashing the house and cars. Anyway…300 miles later the cars are loaded and gone!!!!
 
packleader said:
It started this morning: over 200 new houses will be built a quarter mile from us. Luckily it's not my main hiking area.

Five years ago, the orange groves were shredded; and several times I saw survey crews (the yellow jackets at the far right.)

View attachment 456157View attachment 456153

Left: This morning I watched a machine digging deep holes, probably for the required percolation tests. That's the beginning.
Right: We are standing where houses will be built, as well as on the other side of the ravine.

View attachment 456154View attachment 456155

24 acres are reserved as nature preserve; hopefully it's the wild area where we are. My pups instinctively are guarding every direction for danger.

View attachment 456164

PS, my new 12 months old, 60 pounds Boxer puppy "Rex" tries to rearrange my room. Well, to me it looks like chaos.
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They've been building here too, knocked down 1/2 the woodland to do it..... the last 4 years.. 400 new houses... but thankfully not as close as yours are going to be.... 1/4 of a mile ?.. that's only 400 yards .. and then they'll be roads as well, and much more traffic...
 
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