Good Morning All. Happy Independence Day. It's clear and 79° here, supposedly heading up to 102° later on. Still haven't broken the triple digit mark yet, despite the weather geeks predicting it for over 2 weeks now. Only made it to 99° yesterday.
Another regular day on the estate yesterday, cut firewood for about 30 minutes, assembled the newest shade umbrella for over the pool, and did a few indoor tasks. I can't say that the new umbrella did it all, but the pool temperature did drop by 2° from Tuesday evening to last evening. It's now 88°, warm but still refreshing when the air is in the upper 90's. The water looks and tests great; I have had less problems this season and have actually used less chlorine than last year. Right now I am just losing about 350 gallons a week to evaporation., so the cool water input doesn't really help with the temperature in a 14,000 gallon pool.
Today would normally be the weekly grocery trek, but we haven't decided whether we're going today or waiting until tomorrow. I'm leaning for today but I'm concerned that they might not have re-stocked sufficiently overnight. If I'm going to grill tonight, I need to go...out of ground beef here! I have leftover fajitas from Tuesday, and leftover carnitas from Monday, but I have no "low-carb" tortillas left. I can easily make my own regular ones, but my wife is back on her keto diet and carbs are completely a no-no. My doc allows 60 carbs per meal 4x daily. I can make the low-carb variety, but I would still have to go to the store for enough almond or coconut flour. Might as well just buy the Mission brand. The problem with making the trek today is that some other places that we might want to stop at could be closed. We'll discuss further when wifey gets up.
One last word on college from me. Someone posted about taking courses that weren't in one's major, for the overall learning experience. I do agree with that. However in my case, I went to a Catholic private high school that was billed as a college prep school. There were no shop classes or home economics classes. I had to take civics, economics, geometry along with core language, history, math and science classes. Thankfully we learned how to think out of the box, work together in a team environment, take advantage of outside resources and generally learn to live in the world. I was totally shocked when I started college and was exposed to folks that came from the public school system. Many were just learning what I spent the previous four years learning to do. I have been thankful ever since. But I didn't end up completing college, as I had to get a job after getting married. I ended up paying for my wife to complete her degree since she was closer to it than I was, and they eventually made me an offer that I couldn't refuse. I did use much of my education to advance after that, but it was more from the high school training. She never used her political science degree to get any jobs!
I did make it out to the train shed yesterday. Disassembled vehicles, dull-coated some of them and added drivers/passengers to a couple, those that I could get apart!
Driver only.
Driver and passenger. Looks like I need to look at that hood ornament a little more closely.
The white glue windows worked as planned, but this is still going to be a distant placement.
The complete current line-up.
Joe -
The point of my comment is that we often blame the wrong people for our problems, and worry too much about what really doesn't amount to anything, while conveniently ignoring the elephant in the room
The key word here is "blame". As I posted a couple of days ago, take responsibility for your own actions. Blame also seems to be a key factor in Washington DC these days!
Chad - If you have a degree and work as a bartender, you can then get elected to Congress!
Mike - Yep! Compound interest on investments is a wonderful thing. Don't ask how I know.
Terry posted:
If you don't vote, you get what you voted for.
However, remember the words of Getty Lee of Rush in the song Freewill:
"
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"
Everybody have a great 4th, don't get burned.
EDITED to correct song lyric. Thanks
Mac.
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