"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions. It only guarantees equality of opportunity." - Irving Kristol

The guy from the shop called with info on a differential. I can have him install a used one or a remanufactured diff that has a warranty and should last as long as this one (200,000 miles). The price difference? $500. He said for that amount he'd go with the remanufactured diff. I told him on our budget the used one sounds good. Besides, he can have the used one there Tuesday or Wednesday and installed the same day whereas the reman. is in Texas and will take 5 days to get here.
Oh, and the price he gave me yesterday didn't include labor.
Heavy sigh.

I spent more time sanding Sally's trunk lid this morning and this afternoon applied two coats of primer. Tomorrow I'll apply 3-5 coats of paint and then spend hours wet sanding and buffing. This method seems like it just cannot result in a decent outcome. It's too simple. But I've read so many articles that say it gives surprising results, and the cost is so crazy low compared to spraying like a body shop does that I figure I've got little to lose and potentially a big gain. Plus, I don't have anywhere to spray here like I did in AZ. I have all the equipment but the tight space and dirt floor in Barnett mean I can't spray in there. And outside isn't an option when you live in the woods and the wind almost always blows...fir needles, leaves and bugs.
If this works as advertised I'll start on the rest of Sally's panels. My up front costs mean that doing the trunk lid matches shooting it with my gun and compressor, but by the time I've done the whole car I'll have a fraction of the cost of a color/clear coat spray job.

I worked down in Fred this morning for a couple of hours making changes to my Sunday morning class lesson. They I worked on my sermon. Tomorrow morning I'll go in early to the coffee shop and go over and over and over the sermon until it's firmly set in my head, right down to how I want to word key sentences. For example, I want to call her "Pam" not "my wife" which doesn't feel as respectful.
Extemporaneous preaching is NOT off-the-cuff preaching!

I got Dolly's hooves trimmed in between coats of primer. Every time I do that challenging task I tell myself I won't wait so long next time. It only gets more difficult the worse their hooves are. Alas... And they were bad this time.
She should also have rec'd her CD-T vaccination but I couldn't find the bottle of vaccine where it belongs in the fridge. So tomorrow on my way back from town I'll stop at the feed store and buy another vial. After her shot Dolly will officially be ready for kidding just over three weeks from now.

I'll be very surprised if the current list of restrictive abortion laws being passed in various states survive court challenges. But this is putting that horror back on the front page and once again making it a topic of conversation in society and the media. That can only be good.
The media is focused on the protests to the new laws and that's to be expected. Because of these new laws however, individuals have to think about when life begins. And that can only lead them to a much more restrictive view of abortion.
When our sons were born we went to what was then a fairly new thing - birthing classes. At one of the classes for our first (Steve) we drew numbers. The hospital had just installed their first-ever ultrasound machine and the techs needed practice learning to use it. So two couples from our class got free ultrasounds. Yeah, that technology was brand spanking new. Now they can do surgery in utero! Ultrasounds are now videos. And human life in the womb is clearly apparent.
So I'm OK with court reversals because it's just a matter of time. We may not win this round but it increases the odds we'll eventually win the fight.