A key challenge to building any affordable housing in Decatur is that the cost of land inside the city limits is now tops $1 million per acre. That, coupled with extremely high costs for labor and construction materials, makes it difficult to keep the finished product affordable to most metro residents. Continue reading Decatur’s affordable housing dilemma
Someone said on Twitter that 2021 really came in with that “hold my beer” energy and they were not wrong.
I don’t think I need to tell anyone reading this how crazy things have been.
People have developed all kinds of coping mechanisms and hobbies during the pandemic. For me, when the outside world gets too much, I garden.
Continue reading “Waiting for spring”
I missed my goal in the Bookish 2020 Reading Challenge. I didn’t even make bsic Book Nerd, let alone to the Max Power. Back in January of what we now call the Before Times, I somehow thought that reading two books a month would be a piece of cake.
Continue reading “My (not very) Bookish 2020”
… for the great tree debate. The Spouse reminded me today that it’s been six years since we decided to … Continue reading ‘Tis the season …
