KER-CHUNK!

KER-CHUNK!
Linda has hit a rock in the garden with our small Honda rotary push-mower.
I used the small Honda rotary push-mower last fall so Linda wouldn’t hafta mow during her cancer-gig. But now she is back to mowing with it.
So I flopped the mower to see if the blade had been damaged. Not too bad; just tiny chunks out of the cutting edges.
So I figured I’d replace it. After all, the blade is original, and probably over five years old.
That’s a trip to the mower-store: Brodner Equipment in deepest, darkest Henrietta, where we bought it; or alternatively, Victor Power Equipment, a Honda mower dealer nearby.
So I went to Victor Power Equipment — it’s closer, so I’d rather go there.
Victor Power Equipment is in Ontario County, which has the lowest sales-tax (7.125%) in the Rochester area.
Brodner is in Monroe County: 8.5%.
So from now on it’s Victor Power Equipment — they’re nearer anyway.
Funny; Ontario County (where we live) has the lowest taxes in the area, but the only growth.
Adjacent counties have higher taxes, yet are deflating.
The only problem is REPUBLICAN leaders ending the Ontario County farm economy. —Strip-malls and developments galore. And businesses that make a killing on tax-incentives (at taxpayer expense), and then tank. REPUBLICANS lining the pockets of their fat-cat golf-partners.

“Linda” is my wife of 40+ years. She had lymphatic cancer. It was treatable — she survived.

“Deepest, darkest Henrietta” is a rather effusive and obnoxious suburb south of Rochester.