Recession?

As you know, I have mentioned a couple times in our travels about the appearances of the present recession, and how many of the observances don't indicate any slow down in business.  We just read in the paper yesterday that here in Florida, specifically Southwest Florida has had its best and busiest winter season EVER!  It is apparent to us as we travel around how crowded the roads are, how busy the restaurants are, and the beaches, and the sidewalks, and of course the businesses.  Can't figure it out.  Things are supposed to be grim out here.
Our campground here in Nokomis is already completely booked for next winter's season, as in every site is reserved!
We had an easy day yesterday, just relaxed, after our walks in the morning, went to a park in south Venice, and got a consensus of opinion from a panel of judges there that our observations were correct :)

And the spokesman from the group heralded the news to all who could hear!

I know, looks like I've lost it!
We got another job done on the motorhome.  We have Carefree awnings over our slide outs on the coach.  They are metal covered and have a removable panel to facilitate cleaning.  When Carefree manufactured the awning they used a pushpin arrangement with a spring that with a small pin you could press in to release the cover.  When we replaced the awning fabric last year we noticed that several of the springs were very corroded and a couple were barely there.  They are what holds on the cover.  The cover is a piece of aluminum the goes the entire length of the slide, so if they break, it would be a large piece of metal flying off the side of the coach!  We needed to get this fixed.  Well, Carefree realized the spring arrangement wasn't such a good idea, and stopped equipping their awnings with them in 2007, ours was one of the last ones.  The answer for us was to buy all new end caps that fasten the covers on with capscrews instead of springs.  It makes it a little more time consuming to clean, but so worth it in safety and security of the covers.  So again, after renting 2 10' stepladders from Home Depot, Jason came over and he and I replaced all the end caps on our 4 slide out awnings.  It was one of those projects that cost quite a bit, took about 2 hours to do, and nothing except piece of mind was realized!