Evening, everyone.
Mikey, I hate daylight saving time. Seems to take about a week to get my body to adjust. It's even worse since they changed the date so now it just sneaks up on me.
Jeffrey, sounds like a nice little haul there. Now I know where Frankenengine came from.
BOC, short selling is not for the faint of heart but I don't see much other opportunities in today's market. As long as you've got the position collared on the up and down side, you won't lose much money and stand to make a fair bit as long as this administration continues to pound the market into the ground. That's pretty neat that you have bald eagles nesting in your area. We have a pair of red-tailed hawks in the woods behind the house and they have a gigantic nest. And yes, stump grinding is the way to go. Yanking on a tree stump with a winch is good way to ruin a perfectly good winch and truck while the stump stays firmly in the ground. Don't ask me how I know this.
Chris, it's sort of sad to be talking to stock brokers that don't even remember the savings and loan crisis of 1981-82. Most of these "kids" have never seen bad times and are going to be thrown in the deep end of the pool this time. I think most of them will do OK but there are a lot more sissies around now than when my mom and dad lived through the Depression.
Karl, I need to get some Eternabond tape, rip everything off the seams down to bare metal, and take all the cracking sealant off around all the roof intrusions. Then it's just a matter of getting everything clean and laying down the tape, which costs about $3.50 a foot.
The tough part is that I have no place to work out of the sun and this is a three day job. If the economy was better, I'd just take it to our local RV place and have them do it but I can do it for about half the price. I guess I can set up some lights and work at night if I have to. The Eternabond tape is expensive but, once you get it down, it's good for about 20 years. The constant sun here in the summer will destroy any other sealant in a few years. Once every 20 years is enough for me.
Phillip, if posting at 8:45 am means you "slept in", you and I have a different schedule.
About 10 in the morning is just right for me.
Ken, you and your wife just worked too hard last year so, to reward you, we have to take some deductions away from you. This will encourage you to work even harder this year so you lose more deductions
and pay the Alternative Minimum Tax. I mean, this is only fair, right?
SOME PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON ACTUALLY BELIEVE THE ABOVE MAKES SENSE!
It was a beautiful day here, sunny with a high of 83. Rex picked a great week for camping. No snow or tornados on the horizon either so I'm in tall cotton right now. The bad part is that god weather = yard work so I'll be weeding and mulching for the next couple of days.
. Out came the air sanders and off came the rust. After sealing the leak with GE Alex sealer, I recoated the entire roof with mobile home roof paint. It's a thick silvery-black coating that dries to a flat silver color and sticks to anything. That was 3 years ago and knock on wood (Ouch, my head!) not a drop since. As far as the market, I dunno, looks too scary 
We only got half of what we got last year. Still better than owing money back I suppose...
