I can't locate John and he isn't answering his phone, so I have no idea how to bring the roof metal from Carrizozo. Even though it was beautiful in the morning the thunder started rolling and the rain poured . Maybe I should go to Wal-Mart and pick up another 5 gallons of "adobe" colored paint.
I have always been fairly predictable. I have three colors I remain with. Dark green, dark red and cream. Typically British. But when Jesse built the concrete horse barn and stuccoed it, it was so "adobe" in style I put normal aside and decided to remain with the adobe decor.
It seems so fitting at this time of year.
It was my intention to re-frame the entire trailer, build a large patio around it "pole barn" style with pipe and stucco the trailer to make it far more substantial than anything one could buy. But I'm questioning how one does anything anymore with New Mexico Construction Industries Division shutting one down in the blink of an eye.
There are abode homes here in Lincoln County built 100+ years ago, and they are still standing and in good repair today. There was no government involvement, no laws against building a roof over ones head, no government intervention, yet the houses are simply gorgeous.
The list is endless:
The Dolan House
Tundstall Store
Ellis House & Store
Almost EVERY building within the Old Lincoln Historical district
The Old Mill
The Coe Ranch
Capitan Railway Station
ALL built before New Mexico was US Territory years from becoming a state, let alone formed the Construction Industries Division.
There something wrong. Today we have shoddy houses, immoral & illegal builders that CID ignores. We have multi-million dollar commercial buildings falling down AS they are being built, or shortly AFTER being built. We have such a confusing situation that the normal person can't even start to repair or restore without engineers and blueprints and builders.
The State of New Mexico is running a very efficient extortion racket through the Construction Industries Division. Nothing more and nothing less.
What will it take for our society to return to plain common sense?
