What Recession?

The Great Recession of 2008-09 is officially over. How do I know this to be true? We’ve had at least three general contractors out to the Goldwater compound over the last few weeks to provide an estimate to repair our tree-damaged roof (an unfortunate risk in choosing to live on a picturesque oak-lined street; the other, squirrels, is another matter entirely).

One of them said he couldn’t make it out to the house for at least a week; the other called the day of the scheduled appointment to reschedule. The remaining contractor said he would get back to us with an estimate “in a few days”. That was two weeks ago. We have yet to receive an estimate from any of the folks we’ve called.

I should have taken shop in high school.