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    > Sometimes, you have to let people know that they can ask?  They may not   
    > think of it because in your neck, no one has before?   
      
   Makes sense.   
      
    > Here's close to a recent one over where I am:   
      
    > 'I'd like to start a small community helper project, where a few of us do   
    > simple things for others, materials donated or they provide.  Things like   
    > painting sheds, fixing a wooden fence, caulking windows for winter'.   
      
   So after you get a request, you start posting requests for people &/or   
   materials?   
      
    > This became quite popular.  Some of the workers are handymen who volunteer   
    > to teach other handymen, a new skill set.  Say you are a roofer by trade but   
    > would like to make yourself a brick firepit.  You find a project doing   
    > brickwork and volunteer to help.  Others are as simple as stacking fireplace   
    > wood for older couples (often you get a good amount of free properly aged   
    > split wood in return).   
      
   Nice! So how do you get the people interested in learmning a new skill as well   
   as someone who is skilled as mentor?   
      
      
    > 2 months ago a friend got a new shed and a team of us showed up to caulk   
    > then prime and paint.  Last month a disabled lady got told a 'hitching post'   
    > (cosmetic) fence had to come out.  HOA passed a new rule or something.  We   
    > made a flower box base around it and planted it with climing ivy and pink   
    > Azelias... (legal per HOA).   
      
   I don't think we have HOAs up here, but I'ved read enough stories of the ones   
   all y'all have, & I can only respond with "forn*cate HOAs!"   
      
   We have strata councils9in condo complexes & they're as bad & my attitude   
   towards them is the same. I could neverlie in a condo complex unless I could   
   afford to buy 51% of the square footage, so my voting choices always win; not   
   to be a d*ck, but just to ensure fairness. I'd abstain most votes, but when   
   they try to pull something stupid &/or cruel, I can jump in & veto it. :D    
      
   So, no condoi life for me. . oh well.   
      
   I'm hesartbroken I eon't be living in hearing & smelling distance of dozens of   
   people.  I want what my dad retired to: up in the woods, with empty acreage on   
   all four sides of his home.  He stayed until the government sold off one of the   
   sides for development. . . :(   
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
   Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM   
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