TheBanyanTree: Harvest Moon

[Jodene]

Hi Jana,

San Jose here.  I want Santa Barbara
In the northern half the seem more like
us, maybe the line could be. Ventura
Co.   Haha

Jodene

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On Oct 5, 2010, at 8:03 AM, "Jena Norton" <eudora45 at sbcglobal.net>  
wrote:

> Jodene, I'm in TOC (The Other California, AKA the San Joaquin Valley,
> northern part). Friends and I try to decide where the line should be  
> when we
> divide CA in half. Nobody wants Bakersfield.....
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> Where are you?
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> Jena Norton
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> [mailto:thebanyantree-bounces at lists.remsset.com] On Behalf Of Jodene
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 10:46 PM
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> Dale - I am older than you and I have
> Learned Spanish in the last few years.
> Costa Rica is a wonderful country and the people are very nice and
> they like
> Americans(wonder of wonders!)
>
> Re: water wars- northern Californians
> have hated southern Californians ever
> since they "stole our water" more than
> half a century ago.
>
> Take care.
>
> Jodene
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Oct 4, 2010, at 8:43 PM, "Dale M. Parish" <parishdm at att.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm starting my sixty-third winter now, and today was a reminder of
>> six more months of weather cooler than I enjoy.  Friday, I stepped
>> out of the Driver's License office and they were loading hay in the
>> same hay field from which I used to haul 45 years ago, and I
>> remembered the warm weather and being slathered with hay sticking to
>> our sweat-soaked bodies.  I wonder if I lived in a more temperate
>> climate, if I'd miss cool weather.  I think not.
>>
>> I think of the equator-- is that an extreme?  Maybe.  Couldn't say
>> until I'd tried a year or two there, but real estate on the equator
>> outside of Brazil doesn't appeal to me.  Costa Rica!  I remember
>> reading recently that Costa Rica abolished its army in 1949 and
>> diverted the money into education and social services, and now has
>> one of the highest literacy rates in the world.  That appeals to
>> me.  I don't speak Spanish, but I think I'm not too old to learn,
>> although language doesn't come easy to me.  Johnson O'Connor rated
>> me at the sixteenth percentile in language ability.  But to get out
>> of cold weather, I think I could learn Spanish.
>>
>> How high is the retirement age emmigration from this country.  Two
>> friends of mine left here and moved to northern Thailand, and are
>> still trying to talk me into joining them when I retire.  They make
>> it sound encouraging most of the times, but then they talk about
>> having to leave the country every month and go to Cambodia to cross
>> the border and return to keep their visas current.  Not sure how
>> that might work if one of them were to become hospitalized or
>> incapacitated to the extent that they could not make that trip.
>> Hope not.  For their sake.
>>
>> I've been thinking for twenty years that I'd like to retire to
>> central Texas, in the hill country.  But I know nothing about living
>> on that land-- I'm concerned about water rights.  Texas is about to
>> become divided politically over water rights-- while east Texas has
>> enough water, the Dallas/Fort Worth area has long since grown beyond
>> its means to provide water for growth, and a dirty fight will be
>> fought in the court rooms of the state trying to decide the fate of
>> the water from the Neches River soon.  T. Boone Pickens wants to
>> water-mine and destroy the Ogalalla aquifer and pipe it all to
>> Dallas, and would if he could.  The largest aquifer on the planet--
>> formed over 200 million years-- would be gone.  It seems to me a
>> shame to allow that to happen, but the white man's laws seem to
>> permit destruction of such things with little or no recourse for the
>> future.
>>
>> Texas has some strange laws regarding water.  The state owns it
>> all-- surface and subsurface-- but if you own the water rights,
>> you're allowed to take it from the guy downstream of you.  In some
>> cases you can use it but must put it back when you've used it-- in
>> others, you can use it all and return none to the stream from whence
>> it came.  But water is not a mineral-- you can own mineral rights
>> that give you the right to pump the oil or mine the minerals from
>> under your land, but you don't have to own water rights to pump sub-
>> surface water.  Yet.  If you don't live in a MUD-- Municipal Utility
>> District.  If you do, then you can be forced to buy water from the
>> MUD's well or treatment plant.  Strange.
>>
>> So where do I go that I feel like I can get enough water to
>> subsistance farm the rest of my days out?  Land's getting expensive
>> in the hill country, and water already is hard to come by there.
>> Guess it's getting tough all over.
>>
>> Hugs,
>> Dale
>> --
>> Dale M. Parish
>> 628 Parish Rd
>> Orange TX 77632
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