Happy Friday and Weekend & Book

   Happy Friday,  

     We are quite cool in the early mornings for a bit but by noon we are in the high 80's or 90's.  This type of weather occurred soon after we retired to Missouri back in the fall of 2003  I like it because one can get a lot done outdoors in the mornings before the heat comes in.

   We have hired work done these past few weeks. The biggest problem was the water issue, Larry solved the water coming down the large hill across from us (where the eagles sit) and started working on another drainage issue when he got hurt a year ago. So the next project was to find the well, dig it up and see if that was the issue of the too much water.

  What a huge job that was, I have never seen a well set up this way and we have always lived rural with a well. The two guys were able to find the problem and fix it. One is a long time friend that lives near our woods property and his cousin came with-they are both excellent workers. We needed a small truck load of river gravel with the sand and the driver apologized for the high price-this load is usually around $30.00 delivered this time almost $300.00-Biden-Harris economics Yikes

  I bought J..D..Vance's book a few weeks ago and just finished reading it. This was a newer edition as he added an extra chapter from 2 years ago when it was first published.

    I had lived in North Carolina back in the late '70's and had seen rural communities very very poor. This book was a bit difficult for me to read in the beginning about when he was a child-on how very poor they were, his Mom always fought drug addiction, married numerous times, and the violence and screaming and yelling in most homes. His Grandma helped him through all this, encouraged him to figure out how to get to college. So he enlisted in the Marines, served in Iraq-learned a lot and used the GI bill for college. Then he went to law school. I thought this book was well written and  worth the time to read-an eye opener on just how poor so many of our population is still, but he found a way out.

The lake area will be very busy this weekend. That bass tournament with the $100 thousand dollar first place prize is this weekend, and in Versailles a city I go to for drivers license, the small Wal mart, etc is having their yearly huge apple fest-so I will not be driving any where over this weekend. Smiles.

 I need to go over the instructions again, and will set up one of the weber grills to make the acorn ink while we still have nice weather. Hope to do that this weekend, or early next week.

  Happy Friday and weekend! Hoping you have lovely weather too