[TheForge] Re: north cali and old truck

[Mike Spencer]

marc wrote:

> Well so far I like it up here. Weather is good. people are crazy but...

If what's going on in the mainstream these days is "sane", "crazy" is
probably a big win.

> ... the best part so far: I just bought a 68 ford f250 flat bed
> pickup for $500! Is that some serious mountain street cred or what?

Ain't it so?  Just the other day, one of the Good Ol' Boys that runs
the local junkyard looked at my truck, shook his head and said,
"That's some rig!"  And my F250 flatbed is a pathetically late-model
'87 -- the plush seatcovers don't even have wear holes in.  Maybe he
was just impressed with the gimbaled coffee cup holder I made and
bolted to the dash. :-)

Friend of mine in San Francisco reported a couple of months ago that
the SF Chronicle had an article on people (whom the Chron called
"hipppies") moving to unincorporated areas of NoCal and building "grass
houses" (by which they meant straw-bale).  Friend remarked,

    ...actually these are "legal" in incorporated municipalities
    provided that they're designed and built by people with a bunch of
    letters after their names...

There you go: crazy neighbors who live in grass huts built without the
advice of engineers or architects. ;-)


- Mike

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