Text 25927, 57 rader
Skriven 2015-04-12 21:05:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: weathering 491
==========================
-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 04-10-15  15:48 <=-

 ML>> Maybe, except that I heard that xeroscape is mandated by
 ML>> law these days, and not only is east coast landscaping
 ML>> expensive to create and maintain, it's also illegal.
 NB>> Some of the older scapes might be grandfathered... and it's possible
 NB>> that it's only illegal certain areas...  Actually, even xeroscape can
 NB>> be expensive to create and maintain... depending on how they try to do
 NB>> it... 
 ML> In the arid climes it's pretty much guaranteed to be cheaper
 ML> than eastern-style lawns.

Assuming that they need more irrigation for the eastern-style... I saw
some xeroscaping that looked like it was in need of irrigation all the
same... but then, there was a large cactus that looked like it had been
transplanted, and not given enough depth for the roots to put down, for
example...

 ML> I discover from the Internet that it is only illegal in
 ML> certain areas and in certain zonings. Most one-family
 ML> residential is exempt, and both legislation and enforcement
 ML> are left up to individual municipalities. It turns out to
 ML> be a toothless mandate.

That's kinda what I thought I remembered from our couple of trips out
there...  our son, being an architect (at least at that phase of his
life), was well versed on the legalities and (im)practicalities of the
various sorts of landscaping... 
 
 ML>>> It's lasted over 40 years.
 NB>>> Maybe in another 20-30... ;)
 ML>> Where will I be then?
 NB>> Who knows... ;)  after all, you were just saying that you weren't
 NB>> intending NOT to be around in another 100...  ;)
 ML> Yeah, but I am intending not to have anything to do with the
 ML> kid by that time. Anyhow, in order to survive financially I
 ML> will have moved to Asia or Central America.

I suppose that might make a difference...  ;)

 ML>> More innocent ones in a lot of ways, but awful things did
 ML>> indeed happen, and people mostly went on as normal afterward.
 ML>> Now the greater frequency of awful things can be attributed
 ML>> to the trebled or more population.
 NB>> And todays awful things tend to be done more publicly..
 ML> As everything tends to be done more publicly, with no
 ML> improvement in the age-old situation "if it bleeds, it leads."

Indeed.  :)

ttyl      neb

... *at the end of the paycheck there are a lot of days leftover*

___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
 * Origin: Check Out Doc's QWK Mail  Via Web BBS > DocsPlace.org  (1:123/140)