I’m thinking a lot about my grandfather this St. Patrick’s Day since he passed last year. I’m sure my favorite Irishman is still watching over me.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Grandpa!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
DST – Another Washington Boondoggle
So here we are starting another round of Daylight Savings Time Hell. I can walk around the house and move all the clocks forward by an hour, but my internal clock doesn’t reset that easily. I’ll be grumpy in the morning for the next couple of weeks.
In a previous post here, I discuss learning that most countries don’t participate in the DST sham. So why should it surprise me that Washington would jump on the band wagon for this program? It even has a typical, false advertising name like so much Washington legislation. Daylight Savings Time… There are no savings with this… It’s just a compressed version of Robbing Peter To Pay Paul that is a signature of so much that comes out of Washington. Can you say Affordable Care Act? What about the Social Security Lockbox that doesn’t exist to save the money currently being put into the program. Like I said… I’m grumpy…
So a Preying Mantis walks into a bar…
From Deep Thought on Twitter
Anniversary
Today is another sad memory day. Kathy Pearson, who we lost late last year, got her first paycheck from Easterday Construction Co., Inc. 40 years ago today. Her influence is still felt and will continue to be missed.
She would have liked my lunchtime comic. Check back for it!
Kenney History Article
Jeff Kenney did a history article on Easterday Construction for the Culver Citizen a few years ago. I ran across it on the Plymouth Pilot site here when I was looking for something else. I thought it would be good to reprint it here for posterity. Jeff did a nice job, but I did go back and make a couple of edits where he must have misheard things. Ha!
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*In nearly 90 years’ total existence, company has helped build major structures of Culver, beyond*
Sixty years ago this month, Culver’s longest lived construction company — and one which not only built some of the most prominent structures in this and surrounding communities, but had been connected to prestigious and notable buildings around the country — officially came into its own.
The Easterday Construction Company on Slate Street had already existed for some 30 years under the auspices of the James I. Barnes Construction Company, which was started by former Logansport mayor James Barnes in 1924.