Caution- venting ahead

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>>>Jackie wrote>>>Just finished walking a while

ago with Janet and had to let off some steam, she had worked at the

high school with weight lifting regionals, she spreads herself so thin,

I had thought we weren't going to walk and then she got done early so

had to have someone listen to my ranting and raving.

LOL. Jackie, you know

that you can rant and rave to me anytime. I needed to blow off steam,

too. I'm glad that the powerlifting meet finished up in time for us to

get a walk in. I was wound a bit too tight after sitting at the score

table with coaches and sweaty lifters hanging over my shoulder all

day. was working on the same lift platform as me today, and

she had to tell me to 'calm down, Mom' at least twice. Once when

someone put the scorecards out of order when I was on lunchbreak, and

another time when 3 coaches were trying to change the weights that

their lifters were going to do, all at the same time. Wouldn't have

been so bad, but everything has to move at a fast pace. Oh yeah, and

when people kept getting in my way of the scoring lights after a lift.

I can't record a lift if I can't see if the judges put up green or red

lights. Oh well, this is the last year that I'll be doing it... and as

always, I got a free t-shirt, lunch, and a personal servant all day,

who was constantly checking to see if I needed water, new transparency

markers, or sharpened pencils. What more can one ask for? LOL!

I felt better after our walk... until I read the front page of the

Lampasas paper, while I sat at Subway. Ya know, all I wanted to do was

to unwind this evening, but no. I have to read about some jerk who

just bought 30 acres on the corner and is now putting in a

subdivision! What the %*#@! Who puts a subdivision in an

agricultural-zoned area way out in the country??!!! Besides, that 30

acre tract is part of the same tract as our's, complete with lots of

restrictions, to include 'no commercial activities, other than

agriculture'. Uhhh, excuse me, but isn't real estate development a

commercial activity?? Oh, yeah, and how does one build 9 houses on 30

acres and not go against the 'no structures within 200 feet of any

property lines' restriction? I'm raging. In the 25 minutes that it

takes me to drive from town to home, I'd already talked to 3 neighbors

and my dad. Spent another hour + on the phone with another neighbor,

who's property adjoins the 'new proposed subdivision'. She had no

idea. So, now on Monday, we have to go to the office of the lawyer who

sold us the property, right after we go to the courthouse and make

copies of the actual deed restrictions on file. The subdivision

developer, according to the newspaper, will be meeting with the county

judge. Well, you can betcha that we will be, too. I really don't have

time for this, but there is already one house pad on the land and

they've got some serious earth-moving equipment parked there. They'll

have roads and a couple of houses in place by the time that I get back

from SRD. I'm sure that it probably wouldn't be a big deal to some,

BUT there are 4 families out here, all retired military, who bought 30

- 40 acre 'hobby farms' to get away from living in town. All my life,

I've lived in military quarters, which were basically apartment

complexes, duplexes, and four-plexes. We just wanted to move out where

it was quiet, without neighbors within earshot. And now this. :-(

All through venting now.

hugs,

janet