The Fort is getting ready for the 2025 season. Allyson is up there for the woman’s weekend. She is incredibly excited.
Why?
Because this will be the first event she has gone to in years when she isn’t presenting/teaching. Her goal? To learn how to make a pie crust.
Like many events, there is an unload time. You are allowed to drive on site to unload your gear, and then you are to get your vehicle off site as soon as you can.
It felt like coming home. We stopped to talk to boss lady, then drove around to the Fort to unload. Bill saw us drive up and waved us inside.
It felt good to be recognized, to be welcomed.
There was “man bonding”, Bill was on his way to fix something, he had a crowbar in hand and made a pretend swing at the windshield. It felt welcoming. As I said, a coming home.
Allyson and I got out of the truck. She started unloading for her stay, I went to help Bill.
We worked as a team. I got to drive the idiot stick for a bit. We were able to move a large, heavy, ramp out of the way, clear up the damage a woodchuck had done, and get an aluminum ramp in place for the weekend.
It was good. It made me happy. The Fort is a home away from home.
The one thing that struck me as humorous was that we were going to use some 2x4s. They needed to be cut to size. Bill was in the jointery first. When I got there, I was expecting him to be using one of the handsaws.
Nope, he had a circular saw, making quick work of the task.
NPCs get new talking points
In the past 20 years of watching congress critters make huge amounts of money with some of the luckiest stock moves, it is refreshing to have some of them talking about limiting insider trading.
And all the normal NPCs are all yapping about wanting to pass a bill to stop themselves from trading individual stocks.
The bill, as pitched by the NPCs, is unlikely to actually accomplish anything, still it makes me smile to see them doing this because they are virtue signaling.
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