nah. Jinx will take care of it. She'll dress her cats up with some tattoos and vinyl and scare all the evil government workers away. Jim will be so happy when he gets home he'll record himself singing a song and a take a picture of jinx trying not to laugh at him. Then they'll have posts for about 8 different threads telling us about their day.

Nothing that serious - they (the borough) just want to spend grant money re-doing our sidewalks, curbs, driveway entries... We'll lose our fence but they'll replace it. I don't know what's going to happen with our big weeping cherry tree. Would be a sin to harm it. Gotta look into that more.

The plan to put in a traffic light - now that pisses me right the crap off. Not gonna allow that to happen without putting up a gigantic stink.

If you can't win you might be able to get them to put in a quaint old fashioned one, we did that with our post office. They were going to put in a heinous brick mausoleum and we historicalled them into putting up a nice, vinyl sided, faux Victorian office building. I sound snarky, but it is a heap better than what was planned.

There's 1 big accident in the intersection every year - caused by the parking on the street that blocks the view of cars coming. If they would just not allow street parking for a few hundred feet in each direction everything would be fine. But they say that would hurt the business of the pizza place (owner of which is opposed to street light) - but pizza place has parking in the rear.
It's stupid.
The people who are all for don't live near the intersection (mostly self-important volunteer firemen who stand around drinking coffee, spitting tobacco juice, and talking about 'something needs to be done" once a year when there's an accident) - the people that are against it do.

It's not about how the light would look, it's about big trucks slowing down, idling, and accelerating right in front of my house. That would suck.

Are the trucks just trying to avoid paying turnpike tolls?

I read that as "turnpike trolls". It made me laugh. Turnpikes would be waaay awesomer if they really did have trolls wandering around demanding payment.

Idk UT, avoiding tolls or avoiding rt30.

Argh! Do you have good windows? I was in a house once where there was noise outside, but it was totally quiet inside, and they said the replacement windows changed everything wrt noise.

Original windows. Might as well not have any...

Argh! Well FWIW this place had Pella windows and it was right off a busy street, but it might as well have been a recording studio on the inside. Get the borough to pay for replacements!

Oh no, they just do what they want on their right-of-way, and you still pay taxes on the land.

Fantastic kayaking yesterday. Weather wasn't too hot, water wasn't too cold... the kids are old and capable enough at this point that I don't worry the whole time. In fact the boy is ready to graduate from his kid boat into my old Dagger.
First of many trips down the river this year. Yay!

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For you girls that use makeup primer, like Smashbox's photofinish, which can be very expensive: look for anti-chafing gel with dimethicone in your drugstore--same thing, and far less expensive!

Where's the BurnedLikeJesus sockpuppet?