Roll call ~ Mar 23, 2022 -- Thursday
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mikehikemike
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Good morning, gents.
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Morning…
Attended a meeting yesterday on closing of Senior Center & library, vs. raise everyone’s real estate taxes $500 via referendum. Bottom line is town pays 70% of it’s budget to regional school district which is bloated with high paid administrators and annual 7% raises for teachers, with essentially no town veto power over their budget, so there’s no money left for frills in the town.
If they close we’ll have to move our Thursday piano classes somewhere else. I once used to take watercolor lessons there from a volunteer artist who is probably now 98 years old and still teaching there.
Looking forward to Saturday’s canoe trip, but weather looks foreboding—snow, rain and 30’s with 25 mph winds. More like stay-home-and-sip-hot-cocoa weather. Meanwhile, a piano lesson this morning and I may work more afterwards on the piano innards. They keep promising to someday have it professionally tuned...
I should join a daily walking group. Or there's a hiking group that goes out 3 times a week.0 -
Mornin' gents.
I have to sneer a little about the school getting 70% of the budget, although it is sad about the Senior Center closing. I have a fishing buddy who is a public school teacher and he is uber liberal about spending people's tax money. I wonder why? I try not to talk politics with the guy, or anybody else for that matter. Interesting fact, he has been sending his kid to private school since middle school.
Off to dog training. One of our training group just got a stent placed after heading to the ER after dog training with shortness of breath. Guy is not even 50.
Seeing the Rheumatologist this afternoon. He is going to scold me about my weight.
Be OP ;-)
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Good morning gentlemen.
Had a pleasant, though tiring, hike yesterday. Interesting micro-climate evidence on the trail. I hit snow and ice after a mile and slogged through it for a mile. Then, as I climbed higher, the snow disappeared. Cold air lies in the canyons of those mountain rivers. It is warmer higher up. Anyway, I finally reached a high snow slide across the trail. It didn't look too bad - and probably wasn't. But it was slippery slush over a firmer base. I climbed to the top and felt a little unstable. Looking down, I w=saw that there was no runout below me. The snow ended in a 200-foot drop to the river. There were two boot tracks across the snow, so someone had crossed the day before, but I turned back. My deal with Rita is that I don't take any risks. While it might have been 95 percent sure I could cross safely, the other 5 percent was surely fatal. I covered 10 1/5 miles, with 1,470 feet of climbing. Pretty, sunny day. Home by 3.
Showers, today. Have some errands to run with DW and I am refinishing the top of our old kitchen table. Need to get a couple coats of wipe-on poly on it.0 -
Good Morning
Sounds like you made the right call Dave.
We have a nice stretch of sunny weather ahead which should allow things to dry out a bit. I have PT this morning. The leg seems to have somewhat recovered from my overdoing it after I followed PT guidance. I am hoping I can resume the full workout now and get back moving forward. I am getting the crock pot going for Italian Beef sandwiches tonight.0
