The Hogsty

Morning all . . .

-09° maybe a high of 30° today

Hope your mission at the SS office was fruitful. Had to go to the one in Denver some years ago, with the daughter, to try and get a replacement for the grandson, because the sperm doner had lost the grandson's SS card, we sat there for hours, I can't remember if she got him a new card or we left because she got tired of waiting. But to be fair my daughter thought dad should have all the paperwork for the grandson. The most irresponsible person I've ever seen.

In the 1990's I had a seafood processing plant operating on a dock on the Puget Sound in Washington State. We had a 150 gallon tank into which we pumped 125 gallons of salt water to heat and boil sea cucumbers. They were then packaged and shipped to Japan. They love eating those things. Anyway, one day a government official from the EPA, or some such dept shows up and informs me
I need a permit to heat this water and later release it back into the Sound. Seems my 125 gallons of warn sea water is effecting the environment of the Pacific Ocean. It cost me $100 a year for a permit. I found out if you pay the bureaucracy enough money for a permit you can get them off your back.
A cooler high of 68 today.

Morning, gentlemen. It was -6 when my husband got up around 6:30. I slept until the temperature was a more reasonable 0 degrees.

I was the only person at the SS office- in and out in about fifteen minutes including the time it took me to go back and lock my handgun in the glove compartment of the car. Wyoming, where concealed carry is so automatic that one forgets why one's handbag is so heavy.

In March, I'm headed to the Puget Sound for the birth of my third grandchild. Don't know when in March- depends on when the roads are clearest between here and there. I'm all for monitoring environmental conditions, but one wonders how a $100 permit makes all things possible.