Donna Marie Violin, completed in 2014.

2022 Update

It's a cloudy but pleasant day in Smyrna, TN. I'm sitting in our sun room facing west to our back yard and beyond to a large approximately 2 acre field of grass that has been set aside for rain water runoff. Things have changed since I last made contact in this blog.  Electric cars are starting to be driven on the road. Elon Musk has become a prominent figure in the United States and the world with his Tesla, SpaceX, Boring and Twitter companies.  He is, at this writing, the richest person in the world. 

We are witnessing a very bloody war started by Russia in late 2021 with no provocation in Ukraine. Russia is attempting to take control of the country but has encountered stiff resistance by the Ukrainian people, both civilians and military.  Support for Ukraine has been world wide with NATO countries unified against Russia in words, sanctions and munitions with the United States leading with billions of dollars in military and humanitarian aid.

From a political standpoint and despite much protest from the left, the current liberal party has done much to bring difficulties to the United States with a continuation of out of control deficit spending, decreasing oil supplies and a constant and unlawful flow of illegal aliens crossing our southern border.  We are now suffering a huge increase in gas prices, rapidly rising inflation and a resulting surge in the cost of good and services nation wide.