I’ve enjoyed almost 49 years without being personally subjected to the gum ball. That is at an end. Starting this afternoon, I will export every damn one of them from the property.
Across the street, they’ve been going at it all day with a chainsaw and wood chipper. Therefore, a big honking stack of wood stands out front waiting for the garbage man. Tired as I was from bagging gum balls, I backed up the Toyota, loaded it and built a pile out back. The Wife says we’re going back for another load in the morning. The property owner and I bet people are so stupid and lazy, no one will want it.
I showered, the Wife came home and we headed to Twin Brooks so she could see the new counter top. I was actually there when it went down, but she hadn’t seen it.
Then we repaired to Buffalo’s for wings, chips and beer. I’m hurt bad. Tomorrow, we get the new place ready, and hopefully move Rubenesque after closing. The snow is gone and the Wife is back up to speed.
We’ve got a disabled American veteran moving in at Twin Brooks. Despite my better judgment, it’s a white guy.
The Going Out of Business Sale at Linnea’s continues at a brisk pace.
I made the mistake of ordering my Buffalo wings hot instead of medium. It was like eating tear gas. It was heaven.
@ Fec
bobthesurgeion’s suggestion a while back at Word Up is sticking in my head for some reason. His idea was to take the empty foreclosed houses and give them to vets. Outright.
If those houses are going to rot ,,, maybe ,,,
Even with my anti-military-industrial complex bias I really wouldn’t begrudge a vet a house. Just that those houses might not be such a gift but a nightmare.
Good Luck on your new tenant.
I like the guy, but then I liked the last guy. He drives DAVs to the doctor and hospital in a provided minivan magnificently wrapped.
My mom’s neighbor has been saying for a couple of years that we can’t bring the troops home.
We simply need to stop the process of foreclosure. If a vet wants to squat, maybe we should provide assistance.
vets sign a contract and take an oath. I know the guy who coordinates the work your tenant performs. They have to continually twist the government’s arm for what is owed to these guys. Most vets don’t have extended families. What this guy does is all the help they are going to get. Just give them what they signed up for. Nothing else is called for just because you’re a veteran. You had a choice to be something else. I eat breakfast with 2 guys a few days a week who claim this orgainization saved their lives. The government has abandoned these guys. In a perfect political/military system everyone would die except the politicians. To compound the problem, the higher ups know they cant advance unless there’s a war with real dead guys. The ones who survive are a burden to the system. Stop glamorizing war.
@ Beelze
Fec:
My suggestion would to provide:
Beelze:
Just for a start of course
my dad was a veteran. but the bravest thing he did everyday was get up and go to work regardless of how he felt, knowing that he was going to be plundered, looted and coerced of half his efforts by the government he took an oath to protect years earlier. Then he was going to have to deal with tariffs, sales taxes, employment taxes, inspectors, policies which would fail later and constituents of socialist politifucks who thought the customer was always right. His policy was: “if i agree with you, youre right, if i dont, get the fuck out and torment some liberal prick.” I saw a bumpersticker when i was with DoD in the early 80’s. It said , “be all you can be, don’t reinlist.” My dad always wondered why a veteran, who was treated like a sumbitch while in the service, would expected to be treated any differently upon leaving.
@ Beezle
My dad was a vet, also. I am a vet.
We are all sumbitches that have to make a living to pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat.
With all that said, if houses are going to sit and rot, then a waste is occurring which comes out of the finite resources we sumbitches use. Waste not Want not.
VA loans are available up to 417k no money down to over 50 million who qualify already. Unless you were poisoned or permanently disabled by being victimized by the military/mortuary/industrial complex, why would a veteran be more eligible for a perk?
@ Beezle
How about a lottery ?
A DAV deserves a perk.