I understand that controlling vegetation along county roads is important for safety, but I think in Jackson County, Indiana, they go overboard in a big way.
How much wood chomping is too much?
The tree line on the barndo property sets back a decent distance from the road. But the property across from here had (as in BEFORE the county took action) honeysuckle vines and what you’d expect to see growing in rural Indiana alongside any county road. Last week, it was early morning when I heard what sounded like a woodchipper.
It actually WAS a woodchipper and it went down this DEAD END ROAD leaving a whole bunch of unnecessary ugly in its wake. I don’t see why it was necessary to chomp so far back… especially since there’s no outlet — it dead-ends at I65. So much plant absorbing CO2 was destroyed, our O2 level was likely decreased. 😉
Jackson County, Indiana, is in need of an employee restructure.
It seems to me that county employees in Jackson County, Indiana, need a restructure — priorities are skewed in my opinion.
- Such a big deal was made over a new driveway at the barndo. Remember that? (If you don’t, here’s the link.) I had no choice when they dug a ditch to avert water that wasn’t an issue for the existing driveway 6 foot west of the new one. Now I have a ditch to maintain. What a waste of taxpayer money for an unnecessary action.
- Yet there’s NOTHING done about another property on this road whose sewer is absent a finger system. Walking by the ditch there in the summer it smells like straight-up shit. Maybe some of the county road workers should be allocated to the county’s health department instead?
- Next, you have junk trailers moved in that connect to electricity by a cord so people can actually live in them. Old and decrepit “office-type” trailers and even travel trailers that can serve as family dwellings? Not allowed by county ordinances but not enforced — let’s move some of the overzealous road crew workers to the planning and zoning department.
- Here’s hoping the newly reassigned health department employees recognize that the inadequate sewer is also being used by those living in the trailers.
I could go on and on, but I’ll stop here.
It’s said you should accept the things you can’t change, and it’s for sure I can’t reassign county employees. So I’ll just be grateful for the views I have that aren’t made ugly by my county — and that don’t stink because of their inadequacies.
Now you know: Joro spiders, extremely large orb weavers native to Japan but introduced to America, are eating invasive crop-destroying pests such as stink bugs instead of being invasive themselves. (Wondering how I can get me some! Even spiders are better than stink bugs.)