Two week ago I noted that there would be more to come on the golf ball storage problem we are having. That issue has been resolved - a week ago I got rid of 18K and today 12k, 30 K golf balls we have been hanging out in various storage spaces. I contacted a fellow in Nevada and he came over to collect them from us. They prefer to have dirty balls - mine are cleaned, sorted and packaged for resale. We had to break the bags down - that was a pain but we got the job done. Kathy took some pics to show the stash - hard to believe we collected that many? I will still collect golf balls and sell them on craigslist. I am sure the inventory won't accumulate at the same rate?! We are both glad to have the storage area back - I am sure we will find something to fill it!!
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| Two pictures on the left are the Tracy stash (18,000) the middle is the Anderson stash (12,000) and the right is one happy camper with an abundance of storage!!! |
Kathy has been very busy at work, they are going through a voluntary reduction in force. They have a special separation package for those that have been with the lab for some time. The purpose is to help with the budget issues they are having. They did exceed their goal and it will help the budget but they should have done it early in the year - my guess it would have been a good break even point - now they are behind the 8 ball again. Kathy lost two people and now she has 2 new folks to cover for the loss. Kathy now has to train the new folks and get the assignments sorted out to get things rolling smoothy again. The timing could not be any worse for her - they are getting ready to start closing out the budget year and bring in the new budget - this work does increase the workload for Kathy and her people. Last week was filled with lots of extra work for Kathy to get her folks cleared out and she coordinated the retirement parties for them as well!! She is very glad to have that behind her!!
The fellow that rents out pasture is having fits with his cows. They are all pretty high strung and spook very easily. In the adjacent pasture there is a herd of cows with calves. They recently put a bull in the adjacent pasture and the cows in our pasture are all riled up. One on them went through the fence 2 days ago - they were able to catch it and took it to their property. They were going to move the other two that were in our pasture yesterday - those two bolted and went through the fence and into the adjacent pasture. Now they are stuck with trying to sort out the cows accordingly. The fellow said he is not bringing these cows back - he said he would be bringing cows that behave themselves. It does not really bother us either way - - raising cows does have issues. I am sure they are used to these kind of things. Watch this space to a status on the misbehaving cows.
Kathy has a change in her alternate work schedule and we will be back up here next week end. That works out fine as the neighborhood watch group are meeting Friday night. This is a greet and meet meeting plus some open discussion about pushing forward on setting up some type of civilian patrol. Many of the areas are taking on this activity with the cuts in budgets for the local police and sheriff departments their coverage is minimal and they are certainly understaffed for our area. It will be nice to meet the neighbors and interesting to see if the patrol thing works out?
Not much else for news - - headed into the second half of the year already. Hard to believe we have half of the year gone already and the end of year will be upon us before we know it!!??
Hope you all have a great week end and great week. Happy Father's Day as well!!
More later
Ron, Kathy, Tessie and Sammie ( the cat)
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