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Congratulations! You gonna spark up a Fuente now?

Nice, Gene! Congrats.

Swing low, sweet chariot.

Great night of smokes and whiskey 🥃
Cheers 8 and the rest of ya’s.

Wish I could get a smoke with Corey…

Morning Ram and youse guys. Wife and I are going for a walk and then to a new breakfast joint. Home Depot run later for a new outdoor ceiling fan. Ours works perfectly but the wifey says it looks old and dowdy.

Think I'm next to be replaced.

Good Sunday Morning to all! It's a cloudy 42° on the way to 61° today.

Thanks for the match win kudos, funny thing I was shooting my wife's rifle. She injured her shoulder and could not run the bolt so I used her rifle as it's the most accurate factory class rifle we have. She made it clear, it's just a loan.

Day off tomorrow... prolly put off R&R till then... may have to do some serious beer drinking today...

Tech bros

Afternoon peeps...

'Afternoon, a beautiful day for relaxing.

Don't understand it... you leave the chaos you created to create it in a new location? Dumb.

I got to FL, bought a house, established residency, got a CCW and voted for DeSantis all before the year was up!

No........I think he still lives in his parents basement in Illinois living some imaginary life he shares with us quite frequently.

Couldn't sleep, so up at 0400.

Where is everybody?

Get my walk in early and then meeting with three old high school/college buddies for coffee. Prolly make a date for a golf game since they all hit it occasionally.
Exhaust fan in the master bath is making a racket so gonna replace that. And thats life in the fast lane for now.

Happy Monday gentlemen.

Off to the shpo.

Happy Presidents Day y'all.

I was not referring to you, Spey... I was referring to the people invading your area from San Fran. It's a mess in SF and they move and create a new mess? Doesn't make sense to me when lefties flee the mess they create and then vote the same way.

Mornin Ya'll.. weathers warming up and tree's are starting to Bud... I can almost Smell Spring!!!

Today is our Founding Fathers Birthday!
Tonight, is my wife and I's Special Meeting on re-zoning our property to General Commercial so we can establish our retirement nest egg. Storage Units. It has been a long 2 year adventure to try and Prosper on your own labors!

if anyone would like to listen in on my Rebuttal to this zoning boards recommendations on why we should not be rezoned.. drop me a PM to the link it will go LIVE at 7pm.

in the meantime, this is their recommendation. The Zoning Board Recommends that Mr. Walls property should not be rezoned to either commercial or residential. Mr. Wallsis asking to have his property rezoned on a DESIRE OR DREAM of one day building storage units. He has failed to submit anything tangible to suggest his desire will go forward if his property is rezoned. HENCE, IF IT IS REZONED ON A DESIRE OR DREAM, IT WILL SET A DANGEROUS PRECEDENCE FOR FUTURE APPLICATIONS OF REZONING.

Not one mention of my Flag Case Woodworking Business. because I started this business on a Desire and Dream and Profitted and built it from scratch on those principals. Started as a Hobby building these flag cases and certificate frames out on the back deck of our home for just a handful of co-workers to house the flags and certificates they also flew on missions when we were deployed. that was in 1996, I redeployed in 1997, and they started a list in the Operations office and when our deployment was complete and we were returning home, one of our pilots handed me a list of names of Folks signed up for flag cases and matching certificate frames. deployed again in 1999 and once more after 911 OEF 2002. Same outcome I was busy building cases on each deployment. during the 2002 deployment I came home injured. which led to my final days in uniform. between 2004 and 2006 I worked my woodshop locally as we were building my website to go mail order. where there is demand theirs a need for supply! June of 2006 we went Mail Order with our website. it exploded, I built and put copywrites on all my displays. by August of 2007 and one year into going live on the World Wide Web. we grossed just shy of $19K and out grew a 26/26 garage... I closed my business in 2016 when my mother was in her final stages of battling cancer and my oldest brother was killed in a car wreck a few months later. I maintained all my tools and inventory and still did local work like back to a hobby.

Our plan is to reopen my woodworking business "Live" website and use the revenue from their to build Units at a time and NOT Use somebody elses Money to build our Dream. "Keep the Wolves Away"

Now is crunch time for this city government to become Transparent Government. but they have to get rid of these Skeletons in their Closet First.


So back to issue at hand... "Dream and Desire" is the founding of Our United States Constitution The Preamble, The American Dream!!!

and if they stay true to their cover-ups, all the Tax Paying Towns folks are going to watch a Disabled Combat Vet have his Constitutional Rights Violated by their own Elected Officials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream
The American Dream is the national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals including representative democracy, rights, liberty, and equality, in which freedom is interpreted as the opportunity for individual prosperity and success, as well as upward social mobility for oneself and their children, achieved through hard work in a capitalist society with few barriers.

The term "American Dream" was coined by James Truslow Adams in 1931, saying that "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.[1]

Proponents of the American Dream often claim that its tenets originate from the United States Declaration of Independence, which states that "all men are created equal" with the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".[2] The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution is used similarly. It states that the Constitution's purpose is to, in part, "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity".[a]

Throughout American history, there have been critics of its national ethos. Some critics point out that American focus on individualism and capital results in materialism, consumerism and a lack of worker solidarity.[3] In 2015, only 10.5 percent of American workers were members of a labor union.[4] The American Dream has also been criticized as a product of American exceptionalism, as it does not acknowledge the hardships many Americans face, namely in regards to the legacies of American slavery and Native American genocide, as well as other examples of discriminatory violence.[5]

Have a Great Day All....

Saw this, and had to share:

"Help! my wife got wine drunk and tried to set our marriage certificate on fire, she said, "Good luck trying t return me without a receipt."

Two eight NINE!

Russ, I am wondering how useful it would be to spend a grand or so to have a developer/architect put together some drawings of your proposed storage units? This seems like it would completely negate the board's argument that you haven't done anything to further this plan prior to re-zoning.

I have a estemate, I also have documentation from Storage Unit Owners on how they have a waiting list for a unit from surrounding towns.

I've also got the cost per yard of concrete through a friend of mine for $138.00 a Yard (for me only) others #165 a yard

"Cart Before the Horse"

First Property rezone to Commercial.
Secondly, Survey the and get document3ed on the Deed at the Assessors Office
Thirdly, Shoot the Grade and layout the Variance's.
Forthly, Prep the land and work it to desired grade 1% slope for run off, then set your forms for pads for units.
Fifthly, purchase your building materials and Start your "Erection" going West to East, as units are installed and ready for ocupents/renters, Rent them Out! as we continue our building of units as revenue builds up to reinvest in the land.

but this is all Kneel and Void if the zoning does not get approved!!! The Woodshop will still be a GO on the zoning it rests on now...

I've got local taxpayers interested in joining a working group to hold this city accountable for their infractions on zoning here and I'll start my FOAS on the City Financing next. There are many wondering what happened to the $4.7 millinoin dollar grant from IDNR years back to build up the lake lot for recreational and hunting? they are also interested in the funds from COVID Releife for the City?

It's going to get interesting in this Little Town!!!

I used to do that when I was in charge of our neighborhood's playground. I used petroleum based stain and so the job sucked like hell every year. Then I turned the responsibilities over to some one else.

Evening and good luck 🤞 Russ.

Hope it's worth it.

Such a grumble-bunny.

Perhaps a rebrand as ThistleBritches?