8/30/2019

My dear friend and president, DJT,

            The mystery of the morning is why we have drips coming off of our roof when no one else in the neighborhood does. I recruited my neighbor, the engineer, to help me investigate and we couldn't come up with an explanation. Maybe condensation but why only our roof?

            I am also wondering about the farmers of America and who they are going to be selling their soybeans to if the China trade war keeps up. They've gotten so good at increasing their yield that 40% of the crop gets sold outside the USA. Do you have some ideas about other folk who might want to buy some soybeans?

            I hope you'll talk to Sonny Perdue about his jokes. Paul Krugman, writing in today's NYT, quoted him as asking, “What do you call two farmers in a basement?” and replying, "a whine cellar." Framers are allowed to tell that kind of joke to each other, but not the Secretary of Agriculture. Please help him understand he should not be perpetuating negative stereotypes about farmers.

            I need to get ready for my workshop with my Quaker Friends to talk about clerking so I best be going.