Stay the Course

 And we're racing through another slow weekend.  This is always the case.

Today is lawn waste pick-up day, and I have no waste.  Tuesday or Wednesday, when I have off, I will wack my weeds. pick up a few small branches that have fallen, and that's about it.  

So far I've harvested 5 cucumbers, several banana peppers, and there's a 3rd eggplant waiting to be plucked.  The tomatoes and the cantaloupes failed.  Maybe I should plant them in the front yard next year where they will get full sun.  Because of the trees surrounding my house, in the backyard they only get about 5 or 6 hours.

I had some customers yesterday who are selling their house and wanted a refresh of carpet to make it more attractive to potential buyers.  They have 195.67 square yards, or 160.60 square meters for all of my metric readers.  That's a lot of rug.  Even with the dirt cheap carpet their tally came to over $4300.  And they balked at the price.  He asked if they could skip the padding.  Carpet without padding is like raw pasta... hard.  Welcome to the real world.  As I handed the printed final quote to them, he laid his phone on the desk and I could see he was already checking out our competitor.  Fine with me.

And isn't it interesting how sounds from the past can sometimes be a source of creative inspiration?  Like this.

And doesn't that Ronnie DeSantis have one hell of a Covid problem?  Abbott from Texas?  He, too, is in a bad way.  They both remind me of Ronnie Reagan in that neither has the ability to see other options.  Back when Ronnie got his Reagonamics passed, the economy was in a sorry state.  It took a while for the Conservative legislation to kick in, so almost daily Ronnie would say we need to 'stay the course.'  And for a while, it seemed to work, but the rich never spend as much as they need to for the economy to grow, so it began dying.  So it goes with Covid.  And both DeSantis and Abbot are going to 'stay the course.'  Because of that, every day there are fewer Republican voters in the country.