Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch
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I let the crazy quacken out this morning. For the first time this year they made a beeline straight to the pond. They appear to be enjoying their day 👍 it's a beautiful day to enjoy today.
Farm babe got chicks, 4 barred rock and 4 Easter eggers. Momma Bear is happy to have baby chickennnns again 😂
I saw this on the interweb and thought it was awesome. Not my picture, I haven't seen any box turtles around here.
Jesus is Lord and Christ 🙏❤️🇺🇸
Farm babe got chicks, 4 barred rock and 4 Easter eggers. Momma Bear is happy to have baby chickennnns again 😂
I saw this on the interweb and thought it was awesome. Not my picture, I haven't seen any box turtles around here.
Jesus is Lord and Christ 🙏❤️🇺🇸
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@Dreamz Happy Birthday!!!
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So there has been many arguments about the state wanting to build a mega airport here. They selected 3 sites, 2 in Pierce County and 1 in Thurston County. The commission set up to select a site didn't consult the FAA or Military. Citizens, plus county and city officials were not consulted either. Neither were the Tribes even though 2 of the sites encroach on their land. They actively tried to keep quite about the 'open' online meetings.
The infrastructure does not exist for an airport and would take many millions of dollars just to connect the spots to I-5. These are also areas designated as wildlife corridors as the state required the counties to do so the big cities could expand. Easiest route for a highway is up Meridian through Puyallup to 512 which dumps onto I-5. Would take out a huge chunk of city. Other choice is through JBLM and Nisqually Tribal land.
All Pierce County officials are against this. No political party is trying anything other than to work together to stop it. They have stated as much and drafted legislation.
Nisqually Tribe is against it and joined the fight a while ago.
As I said, they didn't consult FAA and haven't gotten any comments.
The SEATAC approach starts down here. Thune Field is right here. JBLM flight pattern comes over here.
Well JBLM has now made the statement that they are against all three sites as they interfere with the base activities. And overlap base on 2 spots. Thurston County is thinking about bringing a lawsuit as they say locations violate state law about building anything near a military base that interferes with operation. Guarantee that Pierce County will be right behind them on it.
They are trying to not buy up a piece of property on the east side of the mountains and building there. Keep it all on the west side to keep money over to where King County, who are exempt from consideration for another airport, can justify trying to get money from it for Seattle. Plenty of large properties on the east side near enough to I-90 that building a road to it wouldn't be expensive. It's scrub desert so at most those may have a few cattle per hundred acres. Since this will be a CARGO airport it would work well.
Sorry had to rant over the frustration we've had here since last Spring. It came up again in the neighborhood chat. JBLM just recently was asked to voice an opinion by the papers, not the commission. They are not happy this this plan
The infrastructure does not exist for an airport and would take many millions of dollars just to connect the spots to I-5. These are also areas designated as wildlife corridors as the state required the counties to do so the big cities could expand. Easiest route for a highway is up Meridian through Puyallup to 512 which dumps onto I-5. Would take out a huge chunk of city. Other choice is through JBLM and Nisqually Tribal land.
All Pierce County officials are against this. No political party is trying anything other than to work together to stop it. They have stated as much and drafted legislation.
Nisqually Tribe is against it and joined the fight a while ago.
As I said, they didn't consult FAA and haven't gotten any comments.
The SEATAC approach starts down here. Thune Field is right here. JBLM flight pattern comes over here.
Well JBLM has now made the statement that they are against all three sites as they interfere with the base activities. And overlap base on 2 spots. Thurston County is thinking about bringing a lawsuit as they say locations violate state law about building anything near a military base that interferes with operation. Guarantee that Pierce County will be right behind them on it.
They are trying to not buy up a piece of property on the east side of the mountains and building there. Keep it all on the west side to keep money over to where King County, who are exempt from consideration for another airport, can justify trying to get money from it for Seattle. Plenty of large properties on the east side near enough to I-90 that building a road to it wouldn't be expensive. It's scrub desert so at most those may have a few cattle per hundred acres. Since this will be a CARGO airport it would work well.
Sorry had to rant over the frustration we've had here since last Spring. It came up again in the neighborhood chat. JBLM just recently was asked to voice an opinion by the papers, not the commission. They are not happy this this plan
Dreamz
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Thank you so much. Kiddos have not even called me yet but I just disconnected for the day,lol Just chilling!
Dreamz
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Thank you so much! Definitely accomplished,lol cell disconnected for the day,lol
Dreamz
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Thank you!
Dreamz
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Thanks a million!
