Sounds as if you have an ideal investment situation, ksquared, with someone whose advice is trustworthy. It certainly is simpler than listening to a lot of opposing viewpoints on CNBC or reading that sort of thing and worse on the 'net's stock boards. I still tend to spend too much time following the market, but there are worse things I could be doing, I suppose.
Your Sunday evening dinner sounded wonderful, particularly the mushrooms and onions you cooked with the seasonings. I can't get that sort of good stuff at fast-food places like Boston Market .. and certainly not here at home ... <g>
Are there any tractor drivers hereabouts? Yesterday Lou Dobbs on CNN (the only show that I watch on that network) began a new feature called American Classics, which he kicked off with the John Deere tractor. It had farmers my age talking about how they had driven a John Deere since childhood and so forth. My experience with John Deere came in the three summers during my college years, when I operated a John Deere mechanical cotton picking machine. We referred to them as 'pickers, and they were essential a large tractor mounted with all the cotton-picking paraphernalia and driven in reverse, with the two large tires in front and the small one in back. During July and August, we worked 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. In those days the machines picked two rows at a time and had only a large umbrella for protection from the sun. The Dobbs report showed a modern-day version picking 6 rows and having an airconditioned cab for the driver, making life more pleasant down on the farm. My job-hunting resume just out of college included in the work experience section the title "Mechanical Cotton Picking Machine Operator". It was a good conversation item during interviews for an accounting job in the big city ... <gg>
Justin, the former farmer
