Happy new year, Merry Kwanza I ain't dead.

[Per Swenson]

I love you all, but as Mother is is used to say,if I don't have anything positive to reiterate
Say nothing at all.
And folks times have been angry.
When the economy is so bad that the shoe is on the the other foot......
Then good quality work becomes a chore.
I am on my way to Tennessee
Building.......;.......... Crap
And I cringe at the thought.
Another construction whore rather then a craftsman
And so it goes.


per

[Jay123]

Glad to hear you're still kickin' Per, Happy New Year.

[Ottoman]

If building crap puts food on the table, you do what you need to. It can't stay this way forever.

[vanderpooch]

Per,

I think many of us have been doing a lot of second guessing this last year. The strain on my wife, my kids, myself... I feel guilty and worried and disappointed and sad most of the time. You do what you need to do. We understand...

Glad you're still out there

- Kit

[Dick Seibert]

Why Tennessee? Those people don't have teeth mush less money. You've got to to where where money is.

[Lavrans]

Dick needs help building his current project...

[Overbuilders]

You've got to to where where money is.

Dick, you're skipping like a scratched record.

[Dick Seibert]

Dick needs help building his current project...

No, but Allan could get some cheaper prices. BTW, you like to ride bicycles, here's one that gets 60 miles an hour.

[Per Swenson]

Why Tennessee?

Well, this customer just put food in my house.
Heat on the proverbial hearth,
then of course there is the milk and butter,
You know,
All the things you accept as granted.
Carpentry and dedication
Its simply what we do.

Per

Ps
There are some really nice houses down there.....
Horse country you know.


Per

[ShaneG]

Welcome to TN Per! I hope you enjoy your visit. Where are you working?

[Gray Carpentry]

You might be suprised at how much money is in Tennessee. I know I was. I've been here for 5 years, transplanted from South Florida. Middle Tennessee has some of the finest homes you'll find anywhere. . . . Best of luck, Per. Food on the table is always a good thing.

[Dick Seibert]

You might want to find work with these guys, profiteers in Roosevelt's most prized socialistic program to bring rural electrification to the poor south.

[Robert Z]

Dick, do you build anything anymore? How do you find all this stuff?

I have to say the few times I've been to Tennessee, I found it to be a nice place and would certainly move there if work required it.

[Dick Seibert]

Rob:

As a matter of fact I'm coming out of retirement to build a home in Silicon Valley, the owner doesn't trust the modern breed of plastic contractors building toxic "green homes".

I actually spent my own money to fly dentists into eastern Tennessee to provide free dental work to the poor people there in the 70s (okay, I did it to justify writing off my airplanes and quiet down my CPA). All they did was clean and extract teeth, but many of these people drove in in expensive new pickups. The areas I was in were reminiscent of Dogpatch from Lil Abner and the Beverly Hillbillies, one of the most disgusting things I saw at a couple of the airports were traveling evangelists flying their jets in to rip off these same people.

[Lavrans]

No, but Allan could get some cheaper prices. BTW, you like to ride bicycles, here's one that gets 60 miles an hour.

Eh, it's German.

Outside of cars, they just really don't make great technology, although they copy it well.
Ok, Ok, and weapons.

You ought to like one of Lawrence Cremin's quotes: " "When the Russians beat us into space, the public blamed the schools, not realizing that the only thing that had been proved was that their German scientists had gotten ahead of our German scientists."

There are some horses in Tennessee, too.