since I am now unemployed, and hell, a little freaked out about finding a new job when the world, the country, the state, the county, and the city are in chaos and lay offs are a daily news headline, I'll be posting less, but, THIS? You GOTTA see!

I think most of you know I celebrate and share a LOT of what impresses me, and what I think is awesome, and this is a house a homeless guy built on an LA freeway siding. 

Most of you have been readers for a while, and know I often post about things only barely in the realm of car stuff, and will stretch the connection a bit, and this one makes it on the page because it's on a freeway. Yup, that is in the zone of what I post about, stuff on the freeway, AND something that is AWESOME. 

I think you'll agree, that when you see this kind of accomplishment it's all that you need to wish you could help that person of talent and commitment along in life to a happy day. With something they request when asked, "What can I do to help" 

I've been homeless before, not helpless or hopeless, and lived in my garage for years while keeping a job, and blogging away. A few of you know that. 

But I have never been able to even consider being half as fortunate as anyone that can buy a home, no matter how humble or run down. It's in the news last week that you must make at least 65k as a single income person to buy a home, and that's ONLY in 14 states, where it's possible to buy a house for under 75k, down from 35 states the last time that survey was completed https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/04/13/us-states-where-you-can-buy-a-home-if-you-earn-less-than-75000.html 

So, life in the USA, as around the world, is divided by the haves and have nots, those that have made it past the struggle and challenges of life and income, and have homes. Others are nearly there and rent. The rest, around the world, make do as best they can and often make shacks of what's available, where ever they can, and you others that have traveled the world know what I'm talking about and have seen the tent cities of refugees, the Jamaican shacks made from hurricane damaged building materials, 

and the Yooper hunting shacks made from old RVs https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2023/11/yooper-hunting-camp-i-shit-you-not.html 

and you may have seen the vast tent cities of America 100 years ago on Shorpy.com 

homeless camps have been more or less permanent fixtures within U.S. cities since the rise of modern industrialism in the latter half of the 19th century. Hobo camps, migrant camps, trailer cities for WW2 workers coming to the aircraft jobs in California, Hoovervilles, shantytowns, Skid Rows, etc.  https://placesjournal.org/article/tent-city-america/

“There was a Hooverville on the edge of every town,” wrote John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath, his Depression epic about tenant farmers who journey from Oklahoma to California.

Few dispute that the contemporary era of chronic homelessness in America began with the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s. The Reagan administration slashed federal subsidies for low-income housing and psychiatric health centers and deinstitutionalized thousands of mentally ill patients. The all too predictable consequence was a dramatic rise in the ranks of the homeless, and the return of encampments to the streets and open spaces of American cities. Then, the Reagan nonsense of war on drugs, which made drugs ubiquitous, added to the humanity crisis, and it's been about 40 years of hopelessness for anyone living on the street. 

But not this guy!

Even in California, with half the nations homeless population in just 300 miles of So Cal beach cities, this guy made a veritable cottage. On a freeway siding 

that is just amazing, and really nice looking! Yellow with white trim, latticework, and a white fence? Hell, that is classic. It looks like there are some trees planted in stone rings to the left! 

As Steve Carlisle once sang 

"Got kind of tired packing and unpacking

 Town to town and up and down the dial 

Maybe you and me were never meant to be 

But baby think of me once in awhile 

Baby, if you've ever wondered, 

Wondered whatever became of me, 

I'm living on the air in Cincinnati, Cincinnati, WKRP" 

And Aerosmith sang:

"There's something wrong with the world today

 I don't know what it is 

Something's wrong with our eyes

 We're seeing things in a different way 

There's something wrong with the world today 

The light bulb's getting dim 

There's meltdown in the sky

 If you can judge a wise man 

By the color of his skin 

Then mister you're a better man than I, oh

 Living on the edge

 You can't help yourself from falling 

Living on the edge 

You can't help yourself at all

well, this guy is living on the edge of the 110. 

As legendary anchorman Walter Cronkite signed off  -  "And that's the way it is,"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/unhoused-residents-build-home-on-side-of-southern-california-freeway/ar-BB1lOgaQ