Really hot last day for youngest kiddo . . .

It’s been a good week having D for a visit. She has fixed up so much stuff on the smart TV and the old computer that we’ll be in good shape until she and G come next fall. Even with leftovers the night before last she cooked up lots of fresh veggies and  P&D’s Pop fixed up tomatoes and cukes from our Earth Grow boxes. My tomatoes are finally turning red but they are more like big cherry tomatoes then a beefsteak tomato! I’m disappointed but I’ll make a better choice next year and I shall learn how to prune the plants properly. We’re driving in to New Orleans for the Baby Cakes game this evening and then tomorrow we’ll be leaving home at about two pm to get D to the airport for about 3:30. Her flight is scheduled to depart at 5:38 with a stop in Detroit before heading overseas to Amsterdam; then it's a nine hour layover before finally taking the last flight to Tees Valley Airport about a mile from her home in the UK. When we get back from that trip to NOLA I may just take the pruning shears to the tomatoes. I doubt that I can make the plants suffer too much by cutting off what look like suckers. It’ll be too late to do much good but what the heck it’s worth a try.

We went to see the movie Solo at the Movie Tavern yesterday and it was pretty darned good especially for people who have kept up with the Star Wars saga. We also went to Big Kiddo’s home and then out for dinner at the new Walk Ons in Zachary. Wow! We were all shocked at the amount of new housing developments on the road to the restaurant. Zachary is growing much too fast. I’m quite sure they did not considered flooding when the politicians allowed the monster companies to come in and put up houses everywhere there is a open plot. I doubt there are sewer facilities to handle all of the new homes and businesses going up so they’ll have lots of engineered sewer systems with the runoff going into the drainage ditches. So backwards we are here in Louisiana. As long as the political hacks get their cut it doesn’t matter how much the waterways get befouled. I think I could learn to be a hard line environmentalist and tree hugger down here!I've never seen so much incompetence at every level of government. Connecticut is now an out migration state because the politicians keep promising free everything ; the only people paying taxes are the middle class, what’s left of it, and small businesses. Here in Louisiana the government taxes everything and then puts the money in the deep pockets of the lobbyists, politicians, lawyers and monster businesses. The little guy is with out any hope of improvement in the schools, roads, bridges, hospitals. Even tax exempt groups promising to help the poor out of their poverty take money off of the top and pocket it.

Gee how the heck did I get to this rant from what started out to be a good day! It’s easy to get distracted when all you read in the paper is about the nincompoops running government and how they get re-elected by promising free stuff to all and sundry. Oh well, we're off!