Joe cracks me up. “Solar is a bad word because liberals like it.” Hahahaha!

First, solar is not a bad word. It works great for guys in off-grid settings who don’t have huge household power needs.

I’m in a sunny part of our state, and even with rooftops covered with solar panels people can’t run their homes with the power produced, much less charge their cars. The solar panel homeowners sell the trickle of power to the utility company to put in the grid and then sell back to them.

We know a guy who spent $28,000 to put up the panels. Later he had to move, so never realized that investment in any sort of payback.  Plus, complaints are being lodged right and left against the solar panel installers. They’re grifters to a high degree. Reports of damage to roofs and failures to meet promised commitments for repairs and maintenance are common. Access to state and local government energy “rebates” and “incentives” is as tempting to grifters as all the other government largesse schemes. The companies set up in storefronts, make their killings, and vanish. And we the taxpayers and rate payers fund the government participation in this. So.

Have you ever seen the photos of massive solar farms demolished by hailstorms? Have you ever seen a solar panel boneyard? What are the panels made of, and how does their decomposition affect the earth and water?

Joe will say solar is a young industry and has great potential. True. He also doesn’t believe in mandates by stupid, invasive and controlling government entities. Great! Trouble is, our idiot governor has decreed that $89 million will be used to build EV chargers throughout the state. A state with grid problems. The same governor is banning use of natural gas for heating and cooking. He also is trying to eliminate ICE vehicles any way he can.  And we’re back where we started. Funneling everyone onto one source of energy, thus creating energy insecurity.

Multiple sources, strong sources, recoverable and sustainable sources. Without a variety of ways to produce and access energy, we are weakened.

Thanks everyone. It’s so easy to get doomy and gloomy about the world, but indeed good people are everywhere. We sometimes get down on young people but two high school girls came right over and helped me into my car to keep me warm, and brought napkins and pressed them on my head wound. They were asking me my husband’s phone number when the food truck guy’s wife came out and took that over, and took my phone and put her number in my contacts and said to keep her updated on how I was doing. She said the next time I came in for a Habayaki Burrito it was on the house. I texted her later with an update after the urgent care visit, and immediately my phone rang and we had a long conversation about how we all need each other. She loves her customers and had some good stories to tell.

When we got home we asked our neighbor Mike to take my husband over to pick up my car, and while they were gone his wife came over and insisted on massaging my feet. It was wonderful. She also texted frequently while I was healing, saying let’s go for a walk, which helped me overcome my fear of getting out there and falling again.

I think it’s important to realize how just a text, a short visit, anything really, can mean so much when you feel isolated or sidelined. We all need to be that person, that friend, that neighbor, that relative … who keeps contact going and helps if needed. I feel quite humbled.

Also, because I’m right handed, my husband has had to do all the cooking and cleaning up, and even tie my shoes. I’m learning a lot about him. But that’s for a marriage thread! 

Did he suggest YOU should be his VP?  He did me!  Then I read the email and he's like, "Just kidding, really, who do you want me to pick?"   What a tease!

Yes he did! He has good taste … either you or I would be great for VP.

No. I take everything I mean EVERYTHING with a grain of salt these days.  Except when Trump texts me that he loves me.  Damn stalker.

I don’t know how to tell you this except to come right out with it. He sends me emails telling me he’ll always love me. Two-timing stalker!!!

I saw online where a former aide already has testified that Trump grabbed the steering wheel and aimed the ship directly into the bridge.

Yes, boycott. It’s not even a true thing, “gender neutral.” Men’s tee shirts don’t fit me right except for oversized ones to sleep in. And you just try wearing a women’s one! Haha. They’re actually shaped. What a stupid scam. Gender is real, and men and women are DIFFERENT.

I love our stories. Tried to find the 2018 thread but couldn’t. But looking at old threads I realized how many years we’ve all been sparring, agreeing, insulting, complimenting, arriving at impasses, advising, sympathizing, and just generally hanging out and sharing life. Semper gratus. Forever grateful.

Apparently Lara Trump is now co-chair of the RNC. Says election integrity will be their priority.