Economics and Making Ends Meet

This idea has been out and many bloggers have commented on it. However, maybe Los Lunas and some of these other small towns that are having a hard time making ends meet should consider doing something like this.

Check it out. KFC fills potholes and pays to do it, just for a little bit of advertising.

It's better than raising taxes.

Bosque Farms Home Business

http://bosquefarmskennels.com/

Here is a place to visit if you want to buy a dog. A big bull dog with "monster bones and awesome heads" (their words.

A quote from a reader.

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." --Beyond This Horizon (1942)
- Robert A. Heinlein

Happy Fourth of July

This holiday never fails to stir the heart of this author. The Founding Fathers and their triumphs, their tragedies, their struggles to form this great nation is always a source of inspiration for this author.

Here is some patriotic music for you:
http://www.ilovewavs.com/Holidays/July4/july4.htm

An interesting thought

Politics only serve to make the future moron-certain.

Economic Development by Webpage

Let's see. We are listed in the New Mexico Economic Development site.
Yup. There it is. So if you manage to do a search for New Mexico Economic Development and then search there for Bosque Farms or follow the link through Community Assistance to Certified Communities you can then find a link to the Bosque Farms Economic Development Site.

Oh yeah. That helps. Check it out here for yourself.

And while it might help. It seems that Bosque Farms could be doing something more proactive than just these links that are buried in the middle of pages or after following several links.

This author finds it interesting that our webpages link to one place that doesn't link back to us. One example of this would be the Los Lunas Small Business Center.

Again, not a big deal one way or the other. However, it seems that someone would look at these links, look where they are going, ensure we too are listed on their links so that everyone is getting the maximum exposure.

Mostly, this author believes just putting up a webpage and providing a few links to it from other sources (uh, such as our own Village website hint hint) is probably a good start but maybe more can be done?

July Events

How about something fun. Surely this month we can do something fun? This is, afterall the month we have not put on a fireworks show for many years.

What about inviting Deborah Harry to come. This is National Blondie and Deborah Harry month. This author will bet she thinks it's a hoot and come if she can. We can combine that with grilling month, hot dog month, ice cream month, and horseradish month (The latter should make Councilor Wallace happy ha ha) and the ever important National parks and recreation month.

If nothing else, there could be a small parade with a potluck at the community center for National Walk your Houseplant Day.

Fourth of July

What is the plan for fire works on the Fourth of July?

The ordinances on the books, the best this author can find, say that fireworks are legal.

Period.
http://bosquefarms.us/codes.htm

This author read the ordinances and can not find anything that says that if there is an official drought that the village can ban some fireworks. And state law says first: that not all fireworks can be banned, even if there is an official dry spell and second: that the communities need to have the option written into their laws in order to ban fireworks.

Looks like instead of worrying about some of the things they are fussing over, the village Councilors should worry about this ordinance. Once again, they let the deadline for fixing this ordinance slip past. And once again- they will rely on false signs that make it look like fireworks are illegal when they are not.

That is who we have representing us now.

A Positive Past Due

It has been long past time that this author say - wow! The additions to the walk path are very nice. This author particularly likes the new excercize equipment and the benches and the garbage cans. Nice.

Signs

This author went to visit a friend and took a drive past the corner by the Propane store. And wow, isn't that pretty? All along that blue pipe fence there are balloons, posters, signs, etc. It is a wonder the people living in that little area can see to get off of their street and on to the main street.

It seems there was a big fuss a while ago for sign limits. And it seems, signs such as these are only allowed for a short amount of time. They have been up for some time, but let's just see, from today forward- how many days these posters, balloons, and penants are allowed to muck up that corner.

Congrats to the new places

It has taken a few days to notice them. They were a bit hard to see with all the flags and signs and balloons but congrats to the new places that are now where Curves used to be. Good luck to the phone flashers and the new gift shop.

Economic Development

First, the Village has a great web site focused on economic development:
http://bfecondev.bosquefarms.us/

We have been informed here, by "coulrophobic" that there is indeed a website for Bosque Farms Economic Development.

Wonderful. However, this author has been doing a google search routinely and it is not popping up. This author, has every so often, looked at the Village webpage for a link to any information about economic development. Nothing.

How silly. You can find a link to the Albuquerque Economic Development site but not for our own community. Those of us who live here can only shake our heads in awe that something so simple is forgotten. And we wonder why no one is looking at it?