Old Pole

Someone emailed asking me what happened to the previous flagpole that we installed in 2009. Short answer is that it blew over in a wind storm last fall.
The backstory is that Mother Nature may have done me a favor and solved a potential problem for me.  Here’s the long answer:

Last summer a representative of the Sons of Confederate Veterans contacted me and asked if they could fly their flag on my Buzzy pole on a Saturday in October when they were to host a big event at the Confederate Memorial.  I agreed and then tried contacting some of the beer distributors about making a “Welcome Sons of Confederate Veterans” sign for them.  Citing political correctness considerations, the beer distributors declined to make the welcome signs. 

Given that the whole pc thing was something I hadn’t even considered when I agreed to letting the Sons fly their flag, it got me thinking that maybe I too shouldn’t have agreed to letting them fly their flag.  But my worries were then compounded when I learned that Pam and I were scheduled to be out of the Country on the day of the event and that I wouldn’t be here to oversee the flag raising, meet any potentially upset customers etc.  Although I gave Jenny and Larry a heads up, I still worried that there might be some questions or comments pro and con when the Sons hoisted their flag.

Enter Mother Nature.  A couple days before the event, while I was relaxing on a cruise ship somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, I received a text message from Jenny informing me that a wind storm had come thru the area and had knocked over our flag pole.  Some “problems” solve themselves.