A FEW OBSERVATIONS

We note that the four resident squirrels on our property are currently very active.
They are hereing and thereing - I am not sure what they are about, but it seems to us that they are engaged in pre-fall whatever, getting ready for the inevitable seasonal changes.

Three koi have had a good summer, all of them growing considerably.

Even the unfertilized grass has been growing rather lushly.

Dear Wife is attending a professional baseball game with visiting Dear Cousin and Friend. Dear Son is providing transport and refreshments. He also arranged for the tickets.
Good lad.

Dear Friend flew fifty some combat missions over Italy in WW2 in B-25s.
We enjoyed a long talk about those years last night.

With appropriate adult beverage.

Did you know that if you were American air crew and were shot down over enemy-held territory – and you made it back to American or Allied lines, you had an automatic ticket home?

We did not know that.

Neat!

Sophie and I are, as Gramma used to say, ‘Holding down the fort’ while the family is at the game.

Baseball, the national sport.

We restored our tree face for the umpteenth time.

Tree face = two eyes, a nose, and a mouth set against the side of a tree. Held on by screws.

Something, creatures or wind or whatever has cast them all down several times this summer.

We have brought the grill downstate in preparation for closing up The North and it has been in operation.

And we continue to watch the news, national and international.

Gramma also used to say ‘Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof’.
And, if you cannot say something nice, don't say anything.

I know, lots of people used to say that.

I still do. So do they.

Lots of people do.

Anyway, no evil spoken this post.

Except, the various policies of b.o. all appear to be headed for failure: his foreign policies; his appointments to office; his policies regarding health reform on the grande scale; his promises to his lunatic supporters (sorry); and so on.

Anyway, we watch. Lots of crazy policies are playing out to maturity and will either end his credibility or be altered so as to have a chance of seeming to be well thought out.

Wonder which it will be – failures or alterations.

We are starting to think that he might well be the first single-term President in quite a few years.

See, we almost stayed entirely positive.