"Sqwertz" wrote

> How many of you belong to neighborhood association/home-owner mailing
> lists?

Me, though it's not an HOA.

> Do you post to them? (are they open forums?)

Yes I post, but it is not an open list.

> Do you find them useful? What do they talk/bitch about?

Yes, we use them to plan our various picnics and other meals including an
annual 'big bash' where we arrange with the city to legall block off our one
street for a big group. Those of us on the street get donated parking spots
just out of the zone or use the middle school just behind my street (easy
walking distance, parties are on a Saturday and the school doesn't mind as
long as we warn them).

We talk mostly food and planning little fun things locally and sometimes one
will ask for some volunteers to help.

Many are older and have wood ramps that need repairs (especially after a
hard winter). Don just got back earlier in the week from measuring
Estelle's which has 3 panels that need to be replaced. Some of the PT wood
from 2 years ago wasn't properly hard cured so they are getting uneven. It
will take us about 15 mins to cut new ones and about same for Tom to use his
good pressure nailer to get them in place.

Don's known for having the good cutting tools so folks bring us the wood and
we measure and do that part. Last count, there are 11 wood ramps we either
made, or maintain within a 4 block radius (some back and front of house to
make 11). That and I am not sure how many wedge ramps just for that 3 inch
difference between kitchen and garage common here.

If you want to think of it like an HOA, it's not your normal one. No fees
and no obligation. Just neighbors helping out or having a picnic.

> Have you ever told all your neighbors they're a bunch of whiny-assed,
> gabbing, do-nothing pussy farts?

Nope, because they aren't.