Mar 22 - 28

Have you ever walked into a room and knew something was amiss?

Lately, I have been making stir fry at home for the wife and kids. I will go to Food Max and buy all the vegetables and chicken to fry up. My favorite ingredient to add flavor is pineapple chunks. So I bought 4 cans to make sure I wouldn’t run out. 

Later on I walk into the pantry when my foot sticks to the floor, and I mean really sticks to the floor. I look over and there is one pull off lid hiding in the corner. Then I find 2 empty cans in the other corner under some flour. I never did find the other 2 cans. Obviously, both my kids denied ever doing such a thing. 

So this is where I want to start a new business. It will be called “Rent a Nun to Find the Truth”. This woman in a black nun’s habit comes to your house with a yard stick. You sit the kid, or adult, at a short table and the nun starts asking questions. If she doesn’t hear what she wants she slams the yard stick down on the table. Each time getting closer and closer until the child or adult finally breaks down and tells the truth. 

It's too bad I have a social worker wife, I think this idea could be a great start-up.

Mar 8 - 14

I am a lucky guy.

Recently, I purchased a fancy 14ft Stihl Pole saw. Well I went to cut this large oak branch that was growing over a fruit tree, when the branch swung down and broke the top off my new saw. Well, I looked around and didn’t find anyone who could fix it, so I was a little upset that my new toy was not only broken but dripping oil everywhere.

Today a customer inadvertently drove through the ladies bathroom at Sunrise (we will be closed Saturday hoping to open Sunday, by using the all gender bathroom for the ladies). Anyway this customer's grandson fixes Stihl equipment and offered to fix mine for just the cost of the parts.

I mean, am I lucky or what?

I wrote this last night and sent it to the Country Waffles customers last night. We hope to now open Sunday morning. Today, I didn’t feel that lucky. When the car went through the bathroom wall it broke the main water line and so it flooded the whole dining area. When I got there yesterday, the Fire Dept, Sheriff’s Dept, an ambulance, along with the City building inspector were there. Fortunately, both occupants of the car were shaken up but unhurt. Today there was just a lot of cleanup.

Folks, I am afraid to even say anything because it might jinx me, so I won’t.

Mar 1 - 7

I am a very lucky guy.

Yes we had 4 employees test positive for Covid ( all are fine) at Taylors.

Yes we closed for 10 days while we jackhammered up the entire place to repair 50 year old plumbing (we opened Saturday).

Yes the inspector failed us twice on the slope of our plumbing.

Yes our main freezer went down during this time so we had to throw out $1500 worth of food.

Yes the tile I drove all the way to Fairfield to get to match the tile in the entry way didn’t match after all. If you walk in Taylors, please don’t look down.

An hour before we were scheduled to reopen this morning, my manager who was putting together theTaylor Ice Cream machine told me we were out of Taylor lube. This is a proprietary sanitary lubricant that you can only get from Taylor Freezers. (By the way Taylors is not named after the Ice Cream machine nor after Taylor Road that it resides on.) Ok, so Taylor Freezers is closed on Saturdays, and no one else carries it. So, for some reason I had a plastic tube of Taylor Lube at home which I had purchased countless years ago for some unknown reason. So I ran home and got back in time to save the day.

See, I am a lucky guy.