May 21, 2010
Good morning from Collegeville,
It is a cloudy day in central Minnesota, but we had a week of sunny warm weather, so life is good. The potatoes are starting to break through the dirt. I decided to “Google” potatoes and it appears that I have been planting the seed potatoes too deep. The old man in Upsala told me 4 inches, but the web says 1 to 2 inches. That might explain why it sometimes takes so long for the plant to pop out. I also searched for Echo Tillers online and found a repair shop in Freeport not far from Charlie’s Cafe. Now I just need to get the big tiller to my brother-in-law in Belgrade.
All of my spare time has been spent on the list of “fixes” that the USDA Rural Development inspection came up with on the yellow house. Not only do I have to scrap and paint, there can be no paint chips on the ground. So now I am out there with a shop vac sucking up paint chips. If the appraisal comes in ok, the buyer will get all new windows instead of me spending my whole vacation scrapping and painting. My days as a landlord are numbered. Thank goodness.
List of things that we might be able to get along without:
1. The extra buttons that are sewed onto the bottom of men’s dress shirts. (how often do we need them)
2. Cigarette filters. (think of all of the trash that would disappear. It drives me crazy when I see a butt on the ground two feet from an ash receptacle) If you are worried about the health of smokers, then put a five cent deposit on every cigarette and maybe kids would pick them up and turn them in like they used to do with pop bottles.
The show this week is a very special live performance from The Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. Special guests include humorist Roy Blount Jr, folk-singer songwriter Caroline Herring, the Steep Canyon Rangers and blues singer E.G. Kight. Enjoy the show.
“There are two rules for successful investing: Buy low. Sell High. If you refuse to do either, your odds of success are greatly diminished.” Erik Osberg Financial Planner
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