Bingo

Good Morning People!  Our temp is sitting right on the freezing mark.  This is a good thing.  Slowly, but surely, the ice and snow are melting.  This afternoon our temps are predicted to climb into the mid 40s (F).  We have the same forecast for tomorrow and Friday.  This is good.  Spring is a little over 3 weeks away and I can not wait for it to be Sprung.

Yesterday was... interesting.  I had meetings with 2 HVAC people.  The first was with Wilbur Plumbing and Heating.  That went very well.  The rep was in my house for a little over half an hour.  Forty minutes after he left, I received an email with four different quotes.  I was impressed.

Around noon the rep from Topline showed up.  He was an overweight older man with bad knees.  I know about the bad knees because it took him almost a minute to go down my basement steps and he told me his knees were falling apart.  It took him just as long to climb back up them.  Did I tell you he was overweight?  He talked about the size of my furnace and basically told me 3 times how much he knew about furnaces.  After the basement excursion, he went out and sat in his car for 45 minutes and built 2 quotes.  After building the quotes, he wanted to sit down and go over them with me.  With an obvious lack of enthusiasm on my part, he began, not with the a description of the furnace, but  with a rubber cuff that wraps around the hoses coming into the house which keeps mice out... and I'm thinking, that's his selling point?  Anyway, he left shortly after that, and he's supposed to be emailing me those quote. 

And for those of you who are interested, you can rent the Shane / Ilya house for only $1000 Canadian a night, however you can't use the fireplace.

Of course, Orangie had his State of the Union speech last evening.  I didn't listen.  He broke a record.  His was the longest State of the Union speech on record.  He also went into it with the lowest approval rating of any president in history.  I didn't watch it, but I know there were those playing State of the Union Bingo.

The Meidas Trouch counter programing had over a million viewers.  I haven't checked to see how many Americans tuned in to listen to the Orange Anus lie, not that it matters.  He will claim it was the highest rated speech in history.  From what I'm seeing, however, no news service is being kind to him except probably Fox and Newsmax.  He desperately tried to play the part of the king by giving out awards to undeserving people, like the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a hockey player.  Many are saying this was basically a rehash of his rally speeches, the only thing missing was his jerk-off dance at the end to YMCA.

Wilbur Plumbing

 Okay, Wednesday, here we go!  Our temps are supposed to climb into the lower 70s (F) today, how nice is that?  Predictably, however, as in every autumn, the bottom is supposed to fall out and by the end of the week our highs are going to be in the mid to upper 50s (F).  I have turned the heat on, but am keeping it at 70 (F) and so far it hasn't been running... much.

The tech from Wilbur Plumbing was here yesterday.  Honestly, I was expecting him to quote me a price slightly lower than the $1200 Bowman Plumbing wanted to charge.  I almost fell over when he saw what needed to be fixed and quoted me $300.  Wowza!  The repairs took him about 50 minutes and now there are no leaks!  He even connected the water supply line and the drainage for my dishwasher (Bowman was going to charge me $652).  Why such a disparity in prices?  Wilbur is a smaller, family run business, they have a smaller overhead, and they are more interested in fixing your problem, unlike Bowman Plumbing which wants to sell you a "project."  So, if you're in the Central PA region and you need plumbing assistance, I highly recommend Wilbur Plumbing.  (How's that for a plug?)

And yes, my dahlias are still blooming.  Here are the orange ones.

I saw where Trump's blow bro Vlad blamed the United States mid-east policy for Hamas invasion of Israel.  Only Republicans in this country will believe that.  Meanwhile, Washington is investigating Iran's involvement, did they train Hamas' terrorists?  Add to that, the fact that Russia and Iran are good chums (Russia's buying drones from Tehran), and that back in 2016 the Orange Anus provided Israel's security / defense information to the Russians and bragged about it, and it's not difficult to see how Russia's part of this terrorist souffle. 

Here in America, the Republican congressmen are huddling this morning to try and pick a new leader.  They've already been warned to not go to the Right, that a Centrist will have a better chance of working with the Democrats.  Unfortunately, a number of Republicans don't want to reach across the aisle.  Nope.  All they want to do is tell America to "shut up!  We're in charge!"