Facebook - what are you good for?

What does it say about a person if their Facebook page only includes entries from themselves and they hide everything that comes from their friends? I mean, don't they know what they are doing/thinking? Isn't the idea to find out what your friends are doing? I admit there are some folks that I hide... you know, the ones who send you the links to all the stuff you already read, but mostly everything post to my home page. In fact, if I wanted to clean it up a bit, I'd like to get rid of the stuff I post (see previous, I know what I am doing/thinking comment). Or do these people individually visit each page periodically to see what their friends are up to? Or do they just only care what they have to say or what they are doing. Either way I think it speaks to something in their personality... kind of like if your the kind of person who knows all your neighbors or doesn't... Nothing wrong either way, but its just a lot more fun to go around saying hi to everyone..

It's here...

After a month of complaining about the cloudy skies and the cold weather, summer finally hit today. And I'm already tired of it! How fickle is that? I don't like having to use the air conditioner... Bob is always hot... I am always cold, it's never right. And of course the electric bill will go up and the gas bill will go down. Used to be that natural gas was cheaper, but they kind of cancel themselves out these days. The good thing is that I will be home to keep Bob from running it when he doesn't need to. Anyway, looking forward to fall!

There's nothing wrong with conflict

Our town has a very nice equestrian center... It has a big rodeo sized arena, a couple of round pens, a warm-up arena, and a dog park. The really great thing about this facility is that it was totally developed by a private club, the Trailseekers of MV, with donations of both material and labor. As a founding member of that club, much of the labor has been provided by me. I worked many, many concerts at the Blockbuster Pavilion selling beer to those who had already had too much beer to raise money. I have planted trees, cleared rocks, raked dirt, and whatever else needed to be done so that the equestrians in this community will have a place to do their thing. Now one of our own club members (a real b#$%h) has taken action to exclude one of the organizations that use the part, the Roy Rogers Mounted Shooting team. They have been paying to use the arena for their monthly practice. The reason? The noise scares her dogs!

My first reaction to this is so? I live next to a fire station. The fire sirens hurt my dogs ears and the howl. So? I try to teach them to at least howl like real wolves, not yap like they are a bunch of Pekingese. The 4th of July celebration fire works scare the crap out of both my horses and my dogs. So? I put the dogs in the house and give the horses extra hay so they are eating and ignore the loud sounds. But this hag, who is fortunate enough to live a few streets away from the equestrian center instead of in the middle of the city like me, screams so loud that the city sends out people to poll her neighbors... Must be at least 10 of them. And now access is limited to what is essentially the groups of which Ms. Stick-up-her-butt approves. Parks & Rec, already facing budget deficits, must fore go the fees from this organization. In addition those of us who enjoyed watching the show and hoped, one day, to participate in that activity are unable to do so.

What is really irritating is the Trailseekers were approached by the city for their opinion and they declined to take a stand because the issue was brought up by a "private citizen". No matter that that citizen holds a seat on the Trailseekers Board or that there are very few people in the club that can stand to be around this lady for more than a few hours. Their failure to take a stand has resulted in a loss to other members of the club. My pet name for this club is the Sissy Girls Horse Club, mostly because they don't like to climb big hills, go very fast, or otherwise venture outside of the arena. But it's also because of things like this... They, like a lot of people, practice continual conflict avoidance. They will do anything to keep the peace and in this case keeping the peace has resulted in a loss to us all!