Good Morning!
God has given us another chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly).
17.6F going int low 40s, sunny day forecasted.
Saturday work was good, much lower attendance so a much more low-key vibe, we will see how today goes. Harry seems to have enjoyed his day at doggie day care, which is only open for drop-off/pickup from noon-4, which does not work for us when our shift today is 11-7… so we have to hope that yesterday’s activity and some play after church will burn off enough energy so that he doesn’t get too creative while we are gone. I really don’t want to have to stuff him in his crate for 8+ hours…
it still amazes me that people have to pay for parking permits at The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and that money was spent to put up ugly barriers in the shoulders of US441 (which quite frankly is dangerous IMO) to prevent people from parking along the road, large boulders acquired and moved into other areas to prevent free parking, metal poles with “NO PARKING PERMIT PARKING IN AUTHORIZED SPACES ONLY” metal signs installed for a couple miles along the highway, ruining the beauty of the ride through the forest, because there was no extra money available to the National Parks Service to help offset increased costs to high inflation (but there was money to buy all these things so that taxpayers could be forced to spend more money on parking permits in a National Park they already pay taxes to support — taxpayer money spent to pay for things to make taxpayers pay more money for something taxpayers already pay for!). And yet 1% of some other expenditures could have offset the money NPS needed for a decade…
I‘ll gladly take a strike today if anyone wants to do it to me, because what was a wonderful free (as in “no out-of-pocket”) day out has been ruined.
and you know those barriers and signs are never going away…
I hope everyone has a happy healthy safe blessed day.
