Good day to you all…
Glad to have you with us as we slide slowly into Fall … and we reach that time when the clocks must be set BACK an hour at 2 AM Eastern STANDARD TIME Sunday morning for the coming winter months.
We’ve passed that other marker of fall weather – the punkin’s sittin’ out on the veranda – and now we see the stores blossoming with Christmas wreaths. I’ve also noticed people who have the ability and inclination to plant their winter pansies have been diligently at it… I’m always full of good intentions and regret my failure to act on them come next Spring… Ah well… I take comfort in the fact the trees turn into beautiful mounds of color and do their best to spruce up the yard. The professional grounds keepers come along to try and disturb their blanketing… but that won’t happen completely until the first snowfall.
Another interesting sight is our small Japanese maple cozied up to the front of the house. Apparently a nursery grafted limbs from two different trees onto the same trunk when it was small. All spring and summer the tree looks uniformly green – but when fall really takes hold part of the tree turns a vivid red and the other a flamboyant yellow – quite a contrast for a couple of weeks. We also have some tall holly hedges in our front yard… My wife thinks they present a rather unfriendly private attitude… but I like them with scads of red berries that are just signaling the arrival of the winter holidays. This year I hope to make plenty of berries available in the neighborhood… but you probably know how my resolutions go.
We also have an outdoor firepit we’ve not used yet. It was presented to me last Father’s Day… and has remained so far unused on the patio where our umbrella tables are. Summer time… the mosquitoes seem to congregate back there… but I suppose we wouldn’t be troubled that way when it gets a tad cooler… although the ‘skeeters’ seem more hardy than I remember as a youth.
This year we’ve had an especially active election cycle. As of this writing sixty seats changed parties in the lower house – House of Representatives, which being the “House of the People” must stand for election every two years. Senators in the upper house… sometimes derisively called “The House of Winds” serve for a term of six years before having to stand for election again. That theoretically gives them more time to ‘think’ and contemplate. No one’s actually measured it. (J)… and I’m not about to try.
You’ve heard enough politics I’m sure… I think my tank is fully filled… but I’ve also heard conversations about 2012 – so I suppose it’s inevitable.
Have a great end of the week… not quite the weekend yet.
Cordially, IN HIM
Barb and Jack
Delayed audio link:
http://www.wmuu.com/blog/category/audio/just-a-minute/
“JUST A MINUTE”
MR. BOHNER INSTRUCTS THE PRESIDENT
Just a Minute: -- Just before returning as “Speaker Elect”, Ohio’s John Bohner –lectured President Obama: “Mr. President, there’s a word for people who have the audacity to speak up in defense of freedom, the Constitution and the values of limited government that made our country great, … We don’t call them ‘enemies.’ We call them patriots.”
That captured the Tea Party’s mood Tuesday. The GOP lost only three seats while gaining 60 – thus breaking the Democrat stranglehold on the Legislative branch. That doesn’t mean all is well in the GOP – but it’s sure an improvement.
The President now jaunts off to
The biggest GOP disappointment is “Searchlite” Harry Reid, of
¨ I’m Jack Buttram.
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