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KB0MAI, this is KC2PKG. I have two answers to that question. For us, it was great. We had all the houses filled with paying guests and it worked well. We even had some people staying, some people stay in the boathouse, usually our best friends so we don't charge you for that. And that's a really nice trip. If you ever get the chance, come see us. We would love to see some of you guys and have you up here vacationing. For most of Maine, however, the loss of the Canadians was like the loss of 80,000 tourists. So further south in, I don't know, Bar Harbor and places like that, Booth Bay, it was a very slow year and wasn't really jammed. And I noticed that there were only a couple of days when we had the Blueberry Festival up here where there was even traffic on the roads because usually there isn't. You can drive for 20 minutes into town and not see another car. And that was mostly what it was like. And in the winter, that's definitely what it's like. So yeah, it got slow in Maine. The whole problem with Canada, it hurt the way we thought it would. And that's too bad because a lot of people are depending on those summer months to feed them over the next winter. So we'll see that coming out. And the other thing, this will be my up, I'll do a quick one here. The food subsidies to places like the food bank and farmers who want to sell off their extra crops, they get sort of a tax break or something because they can contribute that food and take it off its money or sometimes they get paid sort of a super minimum amount. Well, those assistances went away. So now what used to be about $4,000 a month in food for 200 families at the food bank is now costing $8,000 because that ripples up and down the chain. My wife gets a lot of the food for the food bank from a place called Good Shepherd. They get it from Hannafords. They get a bunch of people contribute and that has drizzled out. So the money that's there, they're starting to spend all the money that they've saved over the years. So if they get into some kind of capital improvement problem or, you know, the air conditioning goes down or the freezers go down and stuff like that, they start burning through that money pretty fast. So it's desperate. Everybody has to scramble up here. But anyway, so yeah, it was good for us. It was not good for me. All right, moving on to end of the session.