Trying to lose some pounds. Salads with chicken, salads with fish, salads with cheese. Kind of boring, but I have lost 3 pounds in 3 weeks. At this rate I'll be good in about a year. But I don't want to lose weight at a faster pace. I don't want the eventual boomerang effect.

Bacon cheeseburger with a fresh slice of jubilee tomato... best producing tomato plants I've ever grown...

really old guys remember Patti Paige!

I seen her boobs before... 😟

Before what??? 😰

😰

Went to Brookfield zoo with the family today. Haven't been there since I was a child myself and wife's never been. Good times.

Tomorrow wrapping up paperwork on home equity loan so we can pull the trigger on new septic system. Can't get a hard quote from anybody, and it was pulling frog's teeth to get anybody to even offer up a ballpark/willingness to do the job. Got two places that said similar prices, 20-30k depending on what they find/permitting issues and add 10k if the well needs relocated or county requires locating where I'll need to pump uphill. So, looks like I'm blowing all my equity on literal chit. Can't sell the house without, and we'd like to move so it's gotta be done.

Got my tax bill for the year too. Apparently my home appreciates in value 10-12k/year, and has for the last 8 years I've been here. Started at 1200/yr taxes, now up to 2800/yr. Still not bad, but considering nothing's changed it's pretty ridiculous. Pretty sure nobody's going to pay anything near what the tax man says my house is worth. Last appraisal in 2012 for refinance valued it at 105k, while the taxman is saying nearly double that.

Rent a backhoe and do it yourself.. it's not hard... 👍

Don't need to rent backhoe, I know a guy. Might happen that way.

Issue is the abundance of protected wetlands surrounding/on my property. Right now I'm pretty much draining sewage directly into one of them. Septic has breeched the surface of the lawn on the low end and drains over the surface. Anything I do will be an improvement over that but the big issue is getting caught...

for a lot less money, add some Imodium to every meal.

you're welcome.

The fishing today was good. I got delta1 on another yellowtail, and this time it was bigger. I thought Al was gonna run out of energy before the fish did. That fish just kept pulling... but he landed it.

Early start. Attack!

Good morning, y’all

Mornin fellas.

Back to work tonight, so stayed up last night. Just about ready for bed.

Good morning.

😎 Dudes...

Looking up flights to book for next winter's travels and they're all insanely expensive, like same day flight ticket expensive. 2k to orlando on a Monday for 3 seats.

Gotta find the sweet spot in timing I guess. If not, road trip it is.

Sometimes your insurance or credit card companies have travel benefits.. worth looking at anyways.... 😟

Read somewhere that around 40 days out is the sweet-spot. But, for winter travel I would book further out to secure seats. I recently bought a ticket to Tahoe six weeks out and was LUCKY to get a good flight for $615. That, in my opinion, is outrageous. Now, I'd be lucky to get a good flight for $800. I feel your pain...

I heard 70 days...but I was already inside 40 days when I started looking at my last trip.. 😟