If you were given a million dollars........

What would I do if I were given a million dollars ?

Thats an easy one .......... I'd relax ........

 You know, "Bush"never liked Oregon, it never backed him, and he never minced words that he didn'tcare if we went from state number #16 in hunger to state number 3 in the last 6months...so I think people are understanding that it's going to be necessary to help your communities stay alive if you win money like this. Actually, except for  the buildings, it wouldn't cost that much if peolpe would get together and be leninent enough to let it get done, but when city hall comes along with their rules andregulations, it makes it hard. We don;'t need the streets widen and all new fancy sidewalks, maybe "some day" but not now to get this through. this is "country" but the authites do everything impossibleto let it be country. If we'd wanted to live in thecity we would of never moved out here to begin with. No parks, they won't put one of those in. Old folks up the street even died and left them land for one, they sold most of it for city funds to an housing contractor and they worked the area over with houses stacked one on top of the other..people fought to keep them from piping in the creek then.  Yet some of them, they built into the sides of the creek...perhaps just to benasty?..One nver knows. They bring future "poverty" for the people without jobs..and thelay-offs are getting higher all the time. I can tell you why I bought out here, because when I lived in an nicer suburban area, in an housing tract, I would get up every morning, and be drinking my coffee when I opened the curtains up to see my neighbor staring at medoing the same thing. As is here, I have an long drive way across the street from mewith  an "flag lot" in the back of it, and on the corner next to it, another house where Sharon came over an looked out my window to see what I would be looking out my window and seeing. She asked mewhat I'd like to see 20 years down the road, and I said, trees, an woodland setting, and she never put up an fence, she planted trees around the corner, bushes that blocked the view and are only now, 30 years later tall evergreen trees. She spent an lot of money back then landscaping as she was taking horticulture classes out at the college, and you should seethe place now, people have come along an literally "scalped"itinways through the years..it could of been so beautiful by now, but maybe with this new neighbor, she sounds like if she can ever get things going the "character of this neighborhood can return in being "quailty" people that care...for those ofusthat have stayed through the years, we find us in retirement years and its not easy to bring an place back in those limited income times..but we have senior citzens that have moved in and they are showing us in grand style what it's all about. Our commmunity was one of high middle income andyoung professionals when it was built, but always, people that loved the "country" atmosphere.

I'd double my savings!

JOKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!