The Continuing Saga

Somebody once said, "Good will always win in the end because, if good has not won, it's not the end yet."   A noble sentiment, but I wonder if the bad guys are saying the same thing about evil.  Good and evil are human concepts after all, and all humans don't have the same concept.  And what about the concept of the end itself?  Will there ever really be an end?  Was there ever really a beginning?  Or is life more like a soap opera than a movie, with each day being another episode in the continuing saga?  Some day the writers will kill off our characters, but the show will go on without us.  It doesn't matter how long because we won't be here to see it.  We might land a part on a different show, but we won't be on this show anymore.

One of the Cheboygan businesses that didn't make it through the lockdown is Taylor Power and Equipment.  I went there today to see if they were back open yet, and there was a sign "Out of Business".  I asked about it at another store, and was told that it's permanent.  I've dealt with that guy for three decades or more, first when he ran the repair shop at the old Ace Hardware, which was owned by his father in law.  He didn't want to take over the whole hardware store when the owner retired, he just wanted to continue working on small engines and maybe selling a few new ones now and then.  The old Ace was sold, the building demolished, and a bank was erected on the site.  Taylor established his shop a little ways down the road, I think he built it from scratch.

Hardware stores were allowed to remain open during the crisis, but small shops like Taylor's were not.  A new Ace Hardware even started up in the old Sears building right in the middle of the lockdown.  I don't know if they do repairs, but I hope so because nobody else around here does.  There used to be a guy in Levering, some 20 miles away, but he closed down a few years ago.  I can do some of that work myself, but I still need somebody to sell me the parts and advise me how to install them.  Taylor was good about that.  He always had jobs backed up for weeks, and he often would tell me that I could fix it quicker myself, and then he would tell me how if I didn't already know it.  You can't get service like that at the Walmart.