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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
In this scenario, money is no object, so you can buy anything you want. Only thing is, you can’t buy this for yourself. What will you buy, and who will you buy it for? Be creative here!  “If your world does not include enough access to different people, and their world does not include enough access to you, you are speaking from ignorance.” ― Jon Stewart, The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests I'm reading an audio book about "The Daily Show" So, I looked up some of their quotes to share. Good reads has 28 quotes from The Daily Show. https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/49192296-the-daily-show-an-oral-history-as.... Laughter is still the best medicine. Shopping As for the prompt, here is what I would do. I would get in touch with my children and find out what needs they might have and buy them things. One of my sons needs a farm. Maybe 2 of them do. I would buy Rick at the least a set of drums and some lessons, or maybe hand him a check so he could buy something for himself. Although, he probably has out grown the drum Idea. So, maybe not. I would buy my daughter a different house in a more rural setting. K needs a new truck. I sometimes wish I could just gift some large amounts of cash to PBS, the local Shriner's Hospital, St. Jude hospital for children, and there is a charity that drills water wells for people all over the world, people who don't have fresh water. Also send some money to Wounded Warriors. I think I would find someone who needs a dairy farm and plow money into some enterprise like that. I would like to start a solar panel factory locally, people need jobs closer to homes in this area. Plus, I'd build a surplus of panels every year and sell them locally at cost, to ordinary home owners and pay some one to help local people learn how to use and install solar panels. If some enterprising person would start a bamboo factory for sheets of bamboo instead of plywood. Farmers could grow bamboo for the factory. Hay, cattle, and bamboo, what a thought. Schemes? Maybe, but if the weather doesn't straighten up crops are going to suffer this year. Did you know they make a solar generator? I always think if the electricity goes down in a storm or other problem, for any length of time a solar run generator would be more practical than gasoline or fuel oil. I always said, "They, whoever they are, wouldn't let me make money because I would spend it to fast in odd ways." Our internet is back maybe I'll be around more this week. Bye, ya all.  PS: I read about a new process to recycle plastic into sheets of insulation.  |
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