While we share a Family Seamstress with Anna and Evie we did not place a Halloween costume order this year. Instead John, who had a number of ideas, settled on being a Hotdog Warrior. For those who are not aware of this creature, I’ll explain. He wears a hot dog hat, straps a sword to […]
I’d put off my pumpkin buying until yesterday and my pumpkin carving until today so when I opened my drawers and couldn’t find my special carving tools I went into a bit of a panic. And then I remembered that in the old days actual knives were used so I gave that a try. And […]
I’m really not the canvassing type. But that is what I seem to be doing in this election. (Last nights’ volunteer caller who signed me up for this weekend mentioned that I was an “All Star”, but I think he really just wanted me to say “yes” again.) What drives me on is that I […]
Louise may feel like she is missing out on the election but we seem to be at ground zero. Life in a swing state is full of mailings (which I don’t even look at before they are recycled), TV commercials (which I barely notice any more), phone calls (which we hang up on), radio ads […]
This is really becoming a break out year for John. It is fun to see his mind developing and expanding. Plus he is more organized. Or at least trying to be. Two anecdotes:
We were parallel reading in bed last night - him with his book, me with mine - when he said, “This sounds great […]
It is a good thing I’m not the type to live blog the debate because you are supposed to have deep thoughts and insightful comments. My mind was going like this:
Boy, McCain’s cheek is big. . . the camera angle and split screen makes them both look kind of awkward . . . Obama looks […]
My bike ride yard-sign survey shows Obama 35 - McCain 42. CNN, which didn’t take my results into consideration, has colored the state blue.
In the last big election my yard sign survey (taken October 9, 2006) had Webb 12 - Allan 11. (Webb won our precinct 56 to 43.)
I’ve decided to redo my survey […]
All summer long I had two thriving pumpkin vines throwing off hundreds of flowers. And what do I get? One small pumpkin! I had one larger one, but when I went out to pick it a week after a lot of heavy rains I found it rotted on the bottom so badly that when I […]
We got a call from the McCain campaign (a recorded voice) inviting us to the rally in Richmond for McCain and Palin on Monday. I’m still puzzling over what this means. We haven’t gotten a republican phone call for a long time. Our voting in the republican 2000 primary for John McCain (something we don’t […]
Admittedly I haven’t been very interested in this second presidential debate. Like everyone else I just want another round of the VPs. So I was planning on watching it until I fell asleep which I estimated would be about 9:30.
However, after taking a look at today’s stock market dive and going into shock (again) […]