Tuesday, April 13, 2010

How are you?

It’s about time I asked, eh?
Yes, many of these things called Blogs have been about me.
Well, folks this is MY BLOG!
Get your own if you want it to be about you, just kidding!
Write back and fill me in on you, OK?

How do we know that people approve of us?
A provocative question, huh?

I put the ‘huh’, since I doubt anyone but an American would ask that.
We have been called ‘ugly’, while in our travels, mostly I suspect since we appear not to accept the conventional mores of any other different society, and try for others to be able to understand our ways more often than not even when on their turf, as guests in their country. How disrespectful of us, and quite ugly, although, today, I think that has changed, at least I do hope so. To be honest it has been decades since I traveled abroad.

Politeness is something that has unfortunately gone by the wayside. We see this not only in children forgetting to say please and thank you, but many adults not acknowledging positive behavior or interest in helping others.

Neighbors were once the mainstay of every community, but with the advent of our most recent economic declines, many neighborhoods are splattered with empty homes due to foreclosures or whatnot and consequently there are acres of no others to commune with sadly.

As annoying as it used to be the only home owner with people moving out of homes that they too owned and now turning around and making them into rentals. But today, I do so relish any neighbors in any socioeconomic situation.

Earlier today, this morning actually, I spoke with a gentleman in our county code enforcement department about a derelict home only three lots from ours that had a broken window. Hubby went to check it out since he is retired law enforcement. He wanted to make sure nothing nefarious was going on in there.

So many stories have been on the news of late about Meth, Crack and Weed homes coming out of such neglected homes.
I was also told that we have over six thousand such empty homes in our county, just dreadful, and oh so sad too!
This one has had the lawn mowed regularly and other than the broken front side window and a front picture window with what looks like a bullet hole in it, it wouldn’t have been so obvious to me, who knows if anyone else cares.
Since the code enforcer said no one else had complained.
Hubby did report that the entire home had been gutted of everything including all the electric and plumbing.

Fortunately, at this time it is the minority of emptiness on our circular block, which is good in my book. Since people are taking up residence in a domicile here or there which makes it harder for the criminal element to do whatever they want without somebody noticing!

I am so sure that we around the country or even the world are suffering similar problems in areas too, and so I think we should all make a concerted effort to find out how to solve this problem.

On that glimmer of an idea I shall bid you all a very good night and to all count those blessings and we will too!

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