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Focus: My understanding of the silly, maddening, fascinating, infuriating events with direct and indirect impact on my community. Also, my interests which may or may not amuse anyone else. So be it.

Today: Golfing Blues

Clay County has quite a few courses. Rumor says that they are all barely breaking even from a business standpoint (except probably the one on NAS Jacksonville. Lotta choices for us. I live on a golf course. A defunct golf course. Been defunct for over a year with no end in sight. Don't know if there is anyone out there with enough $$ and tolerance for suffering that would want to buy it. Probably the most beautiful area for golf in NE FL but...it is all overgrown with mustard weeds with a level of disrepair that has taken multiple owners years to achieve. But I have an IDEA:

Don't ever, ever, ever, EVER sell it to the county. The level of vision at the county government is staggeringly underwhelming. A local told me, quoting an old line, " they were born stupid and have been losing ground ever since!" :-)

Buy all that acreage to the west of our subdivision and build homes - real NICE big homes along with town homes. Use the leftover acreage for an additional 9 holes; rebuild the Himalayas to be a world class, unique challenge. Get the Q School to do a qualifying round here. (And get rid of those stupid speed humps in the Ravines [Humps are For Chumps]. Bigger vision; bigger expansion. Include family owned businesses that you can access by walking a mile or so - no auto needed to get to the store. Return us to the smaller feel neighborhood where you really do kinda know your neighbor.