Wear your galoshes folks, it might rain !
It is an anniversary of sorts... 4 months of blogs...Space 3 arrived here as "newbies" on 15 September, the blog started 4 Months ago, we lost tenants in space 2, 5, and 6, gained people into 5, 6, 9, and 10... leaving the old "veterans" here to be in 1, 4, 7, 8, and 12. all of that minutiae will go into the time capsule beneath the 20 foot bronze statue to old whats-his-name on the horse, when its erected.
Since our little Lane is a "long term" place, we all fall into a different category than the type of travelling RV people who frequent "short term" or "overnight" RV parking places, the very specific "long term" is a synonym for "full-time" (almost insinuating "permanent"), like it, accept it, or not, we are alternative lifestylers.
A lot has to go on to create a person who lives in an alternative manner (compared to the rest of human kind), often times people are, and have been, alternative for soooo long, they simply think they are "normal", and that everyone lives in a under 400 square foot dwelling (the "legal" description of a Tiny house per the International Residential Code (IRC).
Being "normal" is a tricky term, here in wealthy America, there are many standards of "normal", if you grew up in a Mobile home, apartment, duplex as "normal", its not the same "normal " as the waterfront 6 bedroom all glass condominium or estate on 300 acres "normal", or, like the pig farm, corn field surrounded and remote "normal" ... well, you get the variables. What it all boils down to is permanency versus mobility (permanent long term stationary) vs. (temporary short-term mobile).
What aggravates, confuses, and prejudices "normal" people against "alternative" people is the simple fact that alternatives have the ability to be both, permanent or temporary, stay or leave, and are "mobile" enough to do so... the "mobile" part is the rub. Be it a Boat, airplane, hot air balloon, or wheeled anything the "mobility" and whim to stay-leave at-will option makes "stationary" "stuck" people go nuts... and miss out on tax revenues.
This conflict of mobile vs. stationary has existed for thousands of years, nomadic and sea-going tribes have roamed at will, following the food, work, climate, and community ... sharing their exposures, skills, travel, foods, dress, attitudes, stories, and politics/religion/money as nomads, gypsies (incorrect term), RVers, on and on.
We are entering a time when all of this will become mainstream stuff of concern, there are now more homeless than there are alternatives, a lot more.
