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In other news, some local disaffected youts decided to spray paint the neighborhood. The stuning part is that all of a sudden the grafitti artists have gone enviro-mental on us. "Stop Raping Earth" "F* Developers" "Stop Sprawl" signed -"E.L.F."

I don't think real ELF-ers will use little bubbles dots for periods between the letters. Makes, me think, like, omigawd, they're like, girls. Secondly, real ELF-ers burn down real estate developments. Not that I'm giving them any hints.

I can understand the arguments and sentiment against sprawl. Completely. However, to try to make an ecological argument out of it all is just stoooopid. Especially since our development was a farm. A tree farm. A tree farm full of non-native tree species (spindly, crowded pulp pines). A tree farm that completely wiped out the native ecology. There's no native undergrowth. There's barely any wildlife. The developer did the land a *favor* fcol. 1) improved stormwater management 2) reintroduction of native deciduous species 3) large lots minimized the number of actual homes in the plat. There's nearly 30 homes on over 70 acres - most of which is still wooded with the pulp pines. Most developments will put 3-4 homes per acre. Not ours.

But no. The rocket scientists vandalized nearly every home as it was being constructed. In some cases stole materiels and equipment (yup, it's wasn't just doughboy). They stole our development's sign. We all opted to not replace it for 4-5 years so the turds can graduate high school first. :P And now they think they're ELF-ers spray painting for a cause. What a riot.