Relativity in politics....

"If you walk the dogs in the rain, you end up with wet feet 'n stinky dogs..."

Da boyz don't really care what the weather is like when they want'a go for a stroll but old men like me do...t'is raining here in Ol Fair Oaks...a steady, soaking rain tho it ain't too cold...so I bundled up in my hat 'n new raincoat that has been hanging in the hall closet all winter 'n ambled down the street t'see what's happening in the world here on Crestline Ave...

Santorum won in Alabama 'n Mississippi...cudn't happened in them 'golden oldies'....a yankee 'N a Catholic at that ~ durn near blasphemous in the Olde South...'course, even with Santorum winning those two states of mind, Romney still sumhow got more delegates...just proved that Mae West gave good advice...she said that between two evils she always picked the one she hadn't tried before...

In American politics, it seems like superflous is the only real necessity 'n Republicans got a real superfluity goin' for them this year as recent polls show ev'erbody vying for the Republican nomination c'd beat Obama...tain't really true, y'know...he's doing a wunnerful job of beating hisownself at the moment...y'gotta hope he keeps up the good work...

'Course, all things are relative 'n if nobody has ever explained the theory of relativity to you....when you're making out with a really hot girl, an hour seems like seconds; when you sit on a hot stove, a second seems like an hour.

'n the rains came......

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.
James Whitcomb Riley


Well, the rain got here after all...when I struggled out'a bed this A.M. (at the behest of Willie who, when he has t'go, has t'go)...we walked out the door 'n I took shelter under the orange tree 'cuz the raindrops were coooooold...'n just begining...

The Bender Boy told us last nite that we were gonna have at least a week of winter 'n that it was gonna begin at 2:00 A.M. with the wind rattling the windows prior to the rain that wuz gonna be at least a couple inches over the course of the week (that's a lot of rain for this area) 'n feet of snow on the mountain (I'm completely alright with snow on the mountain 'cuz I tend to stay off the mountain this time of year anyways)...well, I wuz awake at 2:00 in the A.M. 'n the wind didn't blow...it didn't blow at 3:00 or 4:00 or 5:00 but then I fell asleep until Willie woke me a little after 8:00 (still haven't seen any sign of heavy winds but t'is raining ~ off 'n on, here 'n there)...

'n becuz I just can't let such a gloomy day go by without a p'litical comment:

Winston Churchill defined a fanatic as one who can't change his mind 'n won't change the subject....

Still waitin' for the rain...

Just read an interesting statistic: 3/4 of the people make up 75% of the population...

The clouds rolled in yest'iday 'n you c'd smell that we wuz gonna have rain...'course, here in northern California that don't necessary signify...sumtimes it looks like rain but it just jumps right over us 'n goes on to the rest of the country...happens all the time no matter what the forecasters say 'n s'long as we get snow in the Sierra, it don't matter all that much except maybe if we get a little moisture here, we get that Spring green that looks so good 'n grows so fast 'n turns so brown when it dries up 'n turns into that extreme fire hazard that costs so much money 'n provides jobs for all the firefighters...specially when we always, several times a year anyway, get sumbody who makes sure that we get fires along the American River Parkway...

When I wuz a boy, there wuz a certain sumbody (even after all these years, I ain't gonna say who) who use'ta set fires to the hills becuz he believed that burning out the underbrush improved the squirrel hunting...

Anyways, I think that leaving weather control to God is prob'ly a good move even if we do get some pretty nasty storms now 'n then...'course, in this secular world we're living in t'day, there's a lot of people who think the guv'mint should take control...with the guv'mint in charge they c'ud make it a lot more 'fair'...that seems t'be Obama's fav'rit catch phrase anyways...makin' thing 'more fair'...ain't sure how he'd go about it but I figger those blue Democrat states 'ud get that southern California weather 'n them red Republican states 'ud all get t'be more like North Dakota...

I b'leeve it wuz Mark Twain 'n Will Rogers who famously stated several times that "everybody complains about the weather but nobody ever does anything about it."

Waiting for God....

"The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore 'n wrong too often to rely on."

So...first day of DST 'n it's looked like rain all day...well, it's s'pozed to rain here 'n snow on the mountain but I ain't seen a drop all day...'course, if I wuz to get in the car 'n go to the store, it'ud prob'ly rain on me...or if I wuz to wash the car, it'ud most definitely rain but since I ain't done neither of those things, it's staying dry...I'm thinkin' it's a personal thing between the weather 'n me...

After a little prodding from Millyrose (who is enjoying a sick day) I did go out in the side yard 'n finish digging the holes for the nine lavender plants 'n stuck 'em all in the ground...

Just waiting for the rain now so's I don't have to water them but the durn rain ain't coming yet...sure as sin, if I wuz to water them plants, it'ud pour down rain...

The DST has the dogs confused...it's really past time for their evening walk but they don't know it so I'm still sitting here...I c'd be watching the snooze-nooze but that's even more boring than waiting for the rain...

Ackshully, a little rain here ain't a bad thing but what we really need is a lot of snow up on the mountain. A lot of people really like snow but far's I'm concerned, it's just an unnecessary freezing of water...

"Be miserable or not, it's your choice."

Spring ahead....for the times, they are a-changing...(a little Bob Zimmerman for the golden oldies)...One of them talking heads on teevee said that we should stay up tonite until 2:00 A.M. so that we could set our clocks ahead an hour because Daylight Savings Time is upon us once't ag'in...a governmental solution to a non-existent problem 'cuz sumbody long, long ago decided that we needed more daylight hours in the evenings than what we needed in the mornings...makes for them long summer evenings that people so love to reminisce about...but, y'know, nostalgia ain't what it use'ta be....

I wuz s'pozed t'be working in the yard, clipping 'n raking 'n such 'n planting sum fl'ars (Ky speak for flowers) but I filled up both my green waste containers plus one of my neighbors 'n I still got stuff left over 'n I ain't hardly begun on Hell's half-acre yet...so what I did wuz take da boyz for a walk again...for the fourth time t'day...

Down on the main drag, on the corner of our one 'n only real intersection in our little village, there wuz a little girl (10 or 12 or thereabouts) standing on a bench with a music box at her feet 'n a karaoke mike in her hand singin' her heart out...me 'n da boyz walked down t'other side of the street 'n around the block 'n she wuz still there singing when we came back....far's I know, she's still there but my feet hurt 'n the dogs are hungry....

"There's a 'hull lot'a definitions for stupid; One is believing that what you already know is enuff!"

A little north wind.....

"The older you get, the stronger the wind gets ~ 'n it's always in your face." Jack Nicklaus

Well, the wind blew 'n stuff flew...stray pieces of paper (mostly used coffee cups 'n fast food sandwich wrappers) 'n plastic baggies (the ones not yet in our landfills)...palm fronds, branches, etcetera...I kept lookin' t'see if there wuz any flying anoretics but if they wuz, I missed 'em...the dogs, howsumever, loved it...'course, both of 'em're built purty close to the ground...I kept a tight hand on their leashes which wuz kind'a tricky 'cuz I also had t'keep a tight hand on my baseball cap which showed a distinct inclination to go flying...funny thing tho' but the Village chickens didn't seem to like the wind 'cuz they all huddled t'gether in little groups in the lee of the park structures...(I let Willie scatter 'em a couple times figuring that he 'n they needed the exercise)...I picked up my garbage can a couple times but gave up on worrying about the lid which flopped back 'n forth ev'ry time the wind changed (one 'a my neighbors weighted the top of his can with a stone which he replaced twice with larger ones)...

"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of old people 'n greatly assists the circulation of the blood." Logan Smith

Can we call 'free money' from the gov't a Fluke????

'n I don't haf'ta 'pologize cuz I ain't got no sponsors anyway...

"It's better to offer no excuse than a bad one." G. Washington

It’s a breezy sooper toosday here in Ol Fair Oaks, cool enuff for a windbreaker anyways...

Got a letter from our new Supervisor inviting us to a ‘special’ meeting to discuss the streetscape project (neospeak) for a ride on that progressive liberal gravy train...a half-million dollar ‘grant’ (more neospeak meaning free money with only a few strings) practically guaranteed to make Ol Fair Oaks Village a destination spot for the region...they intend to turn the main drag (Fair Oaks Blvd) into a ‘complete street’ with sidewalks, new pedestrian curb extensions (?)...a mid-block crossing, enhanced bike routes, added decorative street lighting and landscape amenities...my guess is, the sidewalks ‘n street lights we currently have ain’t ‘decorative’ enuff...

Well, I’m sure most, if not all, of the business operators in the Village are in favor of anything that might bring a little more business but I also think that is sumthing that would be true for business owners anywhere...I just hope to hell they stay off my little street ‘cuz I don’t want sidewalks ‘n street lights altho’ I wudn’t be adverse to a couple speed bumps to slow down those lost souls looking for a shortcut around Sunrise traffic...’course, we seldom get the same ones twice’t ‘cuz we definitely ain’t much good as a shortcut...

"Congressmen should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers so's we c'd identify their corporate sponsors." Anon.