On a trip to Home Depot today I saw the same snow blower I paid $500 for 8 years ago selling for $1200.
My material I use almost daily has gone through the roof ridiculously. And guess what... I have to pass that cost on to my clients. Things might come to a screeching halt soon.
But this is all expected with the ridiculous price of gas. Because that's what every other company has to do... pass the cost onto the consumers. Soon we'll be forced to buy wind powered cars. And all the gardeners around here, and there are hundreds of them in this valley, will be forced to buy battery powered equipment. Those poor guys and gals can't afford this major change. They live on the edge as it is. Yep, it's coming to California soon. And to a community near you too. And it will work flawlessly when all these well thought out laws go into effect. Right...
Yep. Construction / real estate is the first to suffer in a recession brought on by inflation, and the last to recover. Most people either don't know or have forgotten. Lesson learned back in the later 60's. The reason we left SoCal with my Dad being in the business. House sat on the market for 2 years and sold at a 20% loss of the purchase price. Been through a few of these. 2008 was a cake walk compared to previous. This one is stacking up to be of historic proportions. Like the mid 70's only worse. Interest rates and now supply disruptions make construction difficult and in some cases impossible. Not to mention the delays caused by regulations and getting permits completed. Durable goods sales also plummet with lack of demand from the construction industry. Then the rest of the dominos fall accordingly ...
Yeah, the electrification of gardening ... all those batteries. One person could easily go through a dozen charged batteries in single day. transporting them, charging them with an unreliable energy source, replacing them ... then the hazardous waste of the spent batteries themselves ... Assuming we don't have any supply shortages of batteries causing work stoppages ... Yep.
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Nov 6, 2022 - 5:51pm
kurtster wrote:
On a trip to Home Depot today I saw the same snow blower I paid $500 for 8 years ago selling for $1200.
My material I use almost daily has gone through the roof ridiculously.
And guess what... I have to pass that cost on to my clients.
Things might come to a screeching halt soon.
But this is all expected with the ridiculous price of gas. Because that's what every other company has to do... pass the cost onto the consumers.
Soon we'll be forced to buy wind powered cars. And all the gardeners around here, and there are hundreds of them in this valley, will be forced to buy battery powered equipment.
Those poor guys and gals can't afford this major change. They live on the edge as it is.
Yep, it's coming to California soon. And to a community near you too.
And it will work flawlessly when all these well thought out laws go into effect. Right...
I got to the house I've been working on the last couple of weeks about 5:30 this morning. I have to walk a short distance to get to the front door. There's a lot of big ugly cactus's along the walkway. I was shocked to see this...
I then recognized these cactus's were of the Night-Blooming Cereus.
My mom had one of these guys for years. She carried it with her with all of our moves from Anaheim and to this desert.
It only bloomed only once in about 10 years. It was a big event!
I took this shot and by 9 am it was all withered and dead.
I got to the house I've been working on the last couple of weeks about 5:30 this morning. I have to walk a short distance to get to the front door. There's a lot of big ugly cactus's along the walkway. I was shocked to see this...
I then recognized these cactus's were of the Night-Blooming Cereus.
My mom had one of these guys for years. She carried it with her with all of our moves from Anaheim and to this desert.
It only bloomed only once in about 10 years. It was a big event!
I took this shot and by 9 am it was all withered and dead.
Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
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Sep 7, 2022 - 1:20pm
I got to the house I've been working on the last couple of weeks about 5:30 this morning. I have to walk a short distance to get to the front door. There's a lot of big ugly cactus's along the walkway. I was shocked to see this...
I then recognized these cactus's were of the Night-Blooming Cereus.
My mom had one of these guys for years. She carried it with her with all of our moves from Anaheim and to this desert.
It only bloomed only once in about 10 years. It was a big event!
I took this shot and by 9 am it was all withered and dead.
