Memorial Day and a small-town parade and remembering those who sacrificed all they had.\u00a0 And spending time with the kids and grandkids and working on some projects and doing the maintenance for the summer.\u00a0 And this and that.\u00a0 Camera Girl\u2019s honey-do list and some foul-ups opening up the pool and work on the vegetable garden.<\/p>\n
And before you know it the weekend is over.\u00a0 But we did get a chance to go to an ice cream store that makes ice cream from their own cows\u2019 milk and it\u2019s so rich that it\u2019s hard to stand up after you\u2019re done eating it.\u00a0 And I snuck up on some of the turkeys that wander through my fields.\u00a0 Those things are prehistoric.\u00a0 I really can see how they\u2019re related to dinosaurs.<\/p>\n
And we hosted our grandson\u2019s sports team\u2019s end of season party and they had a good time playing pool and volleyball and eating mass quantities of Italian food.\u00a0 Wow, I remember when I could pack away food like that.\u00a0 Now I think it might kill me outright.\u00a0 Youth is a remarkable gift but only the old appreciate it.\u00a0 The young just take it for granted.\u00a0 And that\u2019s as it should be.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m getting together with the Coffee Walk Committee next Friday.\u00a0 It should be interesting.\u00a0 One of the guys I haven\u2019t spoken to in a couple of years.\u00a0 It will be interesting to get his take on the old firm and what finally drove him out.\u00a0 The stories I hear from the old gang aren\u2019t encouraging.\u00a0 It\u2019s all the classic signs of the social justice convergence.\u00a0 Supposedly the constant drumbeat of diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE) is driving out the straight white men but also making everyone else who just wants to do their jobs crazy.\u00a0 And even with the economy beginning to slip pretty badly, good people are leaving.\u00a0 People just get tired of making believe they agree with the talking points.\u00a0 My favorite was how this engineering manager explained how diversity being a strength had been proven empirically.\u00a0 He was claiming that there was scientific proof that hiring people by the color of their skin was measurably superior business wise.\u00a0 It\u2019s remarkable what Big Brother can get an otherwise intelligent man to say.\u00a0 Well, he has a wife and kids and a job he wants to keep.\u00a0 I guess he can do without his integrity.<\/p>\n