The owner came by with his backhoe to act as safety for the building while I cut down the remains of the tree that broke during the storm.
All gone!
All that remains of the broken pine tree in front of the laundromat.
I was still employed then, after surviving a massive heart attack on 2 FEB 2001 and I was trying to find a new pace for my life at something less than the 110% I used to enjoy.
I was working at my foreman’s desk on my desk-top drafting machine when Paul Hoecker, President of Paul Hoecker Precision Products Corporation and a transplant from New York City came into my (his) toolroom and quietly told me that a small Cessna had flown into the side of one of the towers of the World Trade Center. I continued putting my thoughts to paper for some new piece of mechanism I needed to build. Paul came back and told me that it had been an airliner and that the other tower had been struck. He was clearly in shock as any New Yorker would be and I stuck my head back into the task at hand as he went on about his business. Then I covered my drawing and went and did something mindless with my hands, cutting stock to length and beginning to prepare that stock for shaping into my finished thought. And soon I saw what might happen and I went looking for Paul.
I found Paul talking with his brother Richard and after getting their attention made my pronouncement.
I told them they needed to go back to their old jewelry, sewing machine and screw customers and fill the machines with that less than work. The Hoeckers really liked their automotive contracts. Then they asked why they should do as I suggested? Easy. We manufactured parts for cars by the millions. Someone higher up the food chain than we were assembled those parts into components, sub-assemblies and sent them to the auto makers to be assembled into finished automobiles. I love cars. I love the engineering, the art, the technological breakthroughs over the decades and yes the dead ends and whereas I drive automobiles that interest me, the vast majority own and operate automobiles out of ego.
People became fearful after 11 SEPT 2001 and fearful people become cautious and cautious people don’t buy new cars they keep the one that they already own. Paul and Richards response to my suggestion? Not to worry, we have contracts!
14 December 2001 Lynn and I became unemployed. Six years later PH Precision was auctioned off.
Storm debris all cleaned up!
Last Sunday the owner of The Hunting Club and his partner came over with their big backhoe and cleaned up the big pieces from the tree that fell on the laundry room building. I managed to rake up the rest, twigs and broken branches and burn them in the fire pit.
I was planning on doing the job but what would have taken me all week and caused much pain in these old joints was done in an hour. Except of course for the raking up and burning of the twigs and branches, you know, the fun stuff.
The back side of the laundry building with the attached outdoor shower.
The tree that finally snapped.
Well, not all that hard after all of the hype and preparation. By the time hurricane Hermine finished crossing the Florida panhandle and southern Georgia that had been 80 MPH winds had diminished to 45 MPH winds. Still this pine that had fallen victim to insects wasn’t up to those winds and snapped off, the top section striking the admittedly overbuilt laundry building. I’m glad because the laundry room has a most un-RV like shower with room for two people.
View from site #2 of the fallen tree top.
The back side of the laundry building with the attached outdoor shower.
29 August 2016 and the front entrance to the park has been mown.
The Hunting Club
210 Rabbit Run
Ailey, GA 30410
(912) 293-3832
The Hunting ClubThat’s the easy part of the story. This morning before the heat of the day became oppressive, I dragged the push lawn mower up to “mow around the gate.” I have installed an electric latch and rehung the much used gate and with everything tidied up thought that cutting back the summer grass would be a good idea. Mowing along the fence seemed like a good idea. Tidying up the corner where the riding mower can’t go “since I’m here.” So I might as well knock down the rest with the rider. You know the story. But it’s done and it does look nice again.
So I Took a Picture. Why? Because it Lasts Longer!
The Hunting Club is a small LGBT RV park with rental trailers and cabins. We have a small number of open RV spaces left for people who wish to escape the cold. RV spaces have water, sewer and metered electricity.
I’ve been working my way through a gallon jug of Walmart’s Great Value brand 1% milk. this gallon has an best by date of August 21 2016 and a lot number of 4505 09:06 and his has dried white stuff on the inside of the bottle. At first I thought it was just dried milk flakes floating on the top of my coffee that came from the area around the cap. But once the bottle was down to the one half way point, I could see the stuff. Yuck.
The Donald has been espousing such outrageous thoughts, and really he probably has enough money to live out his life comfortably why would he want to be President of the United States?
Marco Rubio is trying to sound reasonable. Maybe Trump will drop out of the election and someone else will step in because that person now looks like a reasonable choice?
At first I thought The Donald was a joke. Then he won the Republican party nomination to be the next president of the United States. Of course his nonsense does show how managed a presidential race is with a carefully crafted message designed to elicit the greatest number of votes. Which is different from presenting viewpoints on necessary issues so that the public can decide. But then again The Donald is essentially doing the same thing isn’t he ? in a cheap television reality show kind of way. And yes, these people really vote and that vote counts just like yours does.
The Donald’s core audience is bigoted, racist in the extreme. If he were simply concentrating the most small minded ignorant people in one place for elimination from the gene pool, wait they’ve already bred. There goes that thought. My husband Lynn has always thought that The Donald really doesn’t want to be the President of the United States. Could The Donald be the savior of the GOP? I mean the GOP has created a whole industry of right wing media refuting reality, or what the right wing media terms variously drive by media, main stream media (as though that’s a bad thing) and the liberal left. You know them as ABC, CBS, NBC and NPR. According to GOP mantra education and intelligence is a bad thing branding intellectuals as The Elite. Yes! The Elites are the problem! Really? Is there some reason we don’t want the best and brightest people analyzing information and making decisions?
At the beginning of the 20th century our government could no longer fund itself without resorting to an income tax. Along the way to that end people were convinced that they too would someday be wealthy therefore it would not be in their best interest to have higher taxes on the wealthiest American citizens. But we did create the estate tax system because we realized that allowing wealth to accumulate in fewer and fewer hands through inheritance would create a ruling class all its own. How did that work out? Slowly but surely the estate taxes have been rolled back and wealth has been concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. You would think that the name Death Taxes would have been a clue, I mean what do you care once you’re dead? You made it, you spent it and you’re gone. Oh yeah, you want a better life for your heirs. Yes, jet aircraft expensive automobiles and the ability to pay too much for everything else makes life better.
The Donald’s just behaving, just showing his true colors. He’s an example of the worst sort of real estate developer. The Donald doesn’t grant us the courtesy of a believable lie. He blusters, he threatens he steals outright and people flock to him hoping to be granted some of his perceived wealth. And no one remembers where that little bit of cash he has comes from, it comes from anyone to interacts with The Donald. The Donald is an expert at making your money his. And keeping your money for himself. What would he do for the US economy? Take us through bankruptcy?
And avoiding gym fees!
When we stopped here in October 2015 there was a pile of logs next to the communal fire pit. For the Saturday night bon fire the previous management would throw a full length log or two over or in the fire pit an let it smolder for the rest of the weekend. After the previous management threw their temper tantrum, quit and or were fired, I talked the owner into loaning me an electric chainsaw and the use of his small John Deere tractor – after my heart surgery. I’ve slowly built up to two hours of work in the morning before the temperature rises to slow roast and this is a typical fire for the day. By night time there will be little to nothing left but ashes.
When I quit this morning the temperature had risen to 91F, an hour later the temp is now 96F and rising.
Here is a view past the tractor, which is what does the actual lifting for me.
Fire pit view past the tractor.
And here is a view of the remains of the 1 1/2 to 2 cords of rotten, bug infested, disease ridden pine logs leftover after the pine forest was culled of the rotten, bug infested, disease ridden trees.
Remains of the wood pile.
This area is nicknamed the land of 10 Million Pines. That’s a problem from practical people that fear imagination. On the surface it sounds like a great idea, plant, wait 20 years and harvest. But when you have all of one type of plant, all it takes is one disease to destroy them all.
“We are sending a letter to Gov. Kasich requesting assistance from him. He could very easily do some kind of executive order or something — I don’t care if it’s constitutional or not at this point,” Cleveland Police Union president Stephen Loomis told CNN.
The request will put Governor Kasich in an awkward position. In general Republicans argue that open-carry laws are an important party of the right to bear arms and improve public safety. The research does not support this argument.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/17/3799163/cleveland-police-ask-emergency-suspension-open-carry-laws-republican-convention/
The people behind our political leaders, the party leaders, the lobbyist, the political operatives have been preaching hatred of “them” whoever they are for so long, it’s become a way of life. But if you’ve read any history you can see where this is leading. Right to where we are now.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
