Governor luncheon and county fair

4:01:33Okay. Well, um I've just got a few things. Uh attended the governor today's lunching which There's pictures right there for you, so Um That Wilton of course was there. He was the M C for the day and I did listen to our governor speak and I was very amazed that For a national debt, federal national debt, each one of us would only to pay it off, would only have to pay a hundred and roughly a hundred and sixty thousand

4:02:03plus dollars. Each of us for national debt. In Florida Our debt that we owe for f for the state of Florida and they've been reducing debt all along, which s Very, very good. It was only six hundred dollars per person. In Florida. Which is pretty amazing. And so I I listened to his speech but it he really uh made sense with some things that I hadn't heard him say before, but it w it

4:02:33was very good. So Uh next I I went uh to River Ridge uh high school on Uh Friday night at six six o'clock gave a For Tampa Bay Water Environmental Stewardship Award to a Middle Schooler Middle Schooler. And um Uh went it went very well and it's it's great that uh environmentally um young people are getting to learn about our environment and how we can have water for ourselves

4:03:03and also water for our environment around us. So We had to live together with with our surroundings.

4:03:12And When you hear rain and thunder like the last two days, I mean we're collecting that water now for our drinking water. as it comes in the reservoir and the lakes and the streams and all that. that comes in our system. But I told a gentleman that I and I've always heard this God's way of Uh fertilizing the earth. It's when it thunders, lightnings. During a rainstorm. It reacts with neutrons and

4:03:43forms nitrogen in the water which fertilizes the earth. Some people never heard that before, but I've always heard that. And uh it's a good thing. I mean we don't we can't live without water, so But we have a lot in the future uh plans for having more and more water for our residents. So new plans, new programs. Uh yesterday was opening day at Pasco County Fair. It runs through February twenty fifth.

4:04:14Of course everybody's invited to to go. I didn't see anybody there milking cow last night.

4:04:25Ms. Norkey's done that before now. So has Jack. I've done it several times. Sorry, Mr. So but it's uh it got started very well. So it Looks like it's gonna be a good week for the fair, so A lot of kids, a lot of involvement, a lot of uh we actually cut the ribbon yesterday morning for the new Ag Barn that we have there. uh which Wilton helped get the funds to be able to build that Ag bar. And we're on um

4:04:54Well J J's much aware of this. We're on uh Firewatch. because we couldn't put the sprinkler system in there because we didn't have enough water. in the area of Dade City to be able to Uh use sprinklers in there right now. So We've got that set up so we're on fire watch throughout the week so uh there and uh our folks are are there and ready to go if some issue comes up. But We're watching that and It it'll be good and then afterwards we're gonna try to make some plans where we can take

4:05:24care of the the fire system for that barn. So it's so strange we talk about the fire system for a metal barn, concrete and all these things. When the barn it was there, we didn't have a fire system in it. It wasn't required or anything. And if you struck a match in it, it'll burn up in a couple of d hours or so. But we gotta have it for this new metal barn, so But it those strange things, but that's that's a new way of life I think. So but and then um Of

4:05:55course I it's hard to say um

4:06:00How great a day we yesterday was, but I'm telling you It was very well planned out.

4:06:07Plenty of room. Plenty of room for parking. Other than we had a little bit of line and we probably disrupted a few people that travel in the area during that time of day. We probably interrupted them a little bit because we had lines in the roads out there, but Uh I think it went very well. Um And I think I had beans everywhere on me. So I served beans but I got 'em more than just in somebody's plate. I got 'em on my shirt, on my shoes, so But

4:06:38it was it was fun. And There's a picture of all this stuff here. So There you go. This is a picture where they had a antique car show. And it turned out very nice. Uh Roy actually got a trophy, I believe. Of a I believe it was Chevrolet Piston.

4:07:01That was just as the hosting department. And the idea is if another department, you know, kinda hosts it and coordinates it, we'll we'll pass that piston trophy on.

4:07:09Oh you're gonna pass that one on. Right.

4:07:11But that that whole car show was was was put together by one of our

4:07:14inspectors,

4:07:15one

4:07:15of our building inspectors. Yeah. Yeah. And and it was good. It was very I mean, I went out there and we walked and looked at the car, so it was pretty nice. So and then this happened. I don't know who these people are. You gonna turn that thing on or

4:07:32Are you bumping?

4:07:33We're not doing about no, we're not doing no buttons. We're doing a something.

4:07:41There we go. Is it 3D one?

4:07:42Marie. Oh, that's right. Oh, Marie. Oh, oh, it's the 3D camera. Is

4:07:46that Marie?

4:07:47Yeah.

4:07:47Oh. I

4:07:48didn't recognize it.

4:07:51Oh that's funny.

4:07:54That was actually a very big hit.

4:07:57I've seen that at a wedding. I never I never got on it. But

4:08:01that was a very interesting machine like that, so it was pretty good. But it was a great day and I I I certainly appreciate all our employees and I had a plan for Troy Stevenson has Agme on the go and he was gonna have one of the trucks out there saying how much we appreciated everybody. It didn't happen because his employees overslept to about eleven o'clock that day, I found out this morning. Yeah. But he was willing he was gonna do that for nothing for us. So we'll

4:08:31get him back another time to do that for us, uh But uh I am uh I'm pleased a lot of a lot of things in the area are happening. A lot of things are very good for our Our folks. Um And with that. I'm done.

4:08:48Okay.