Well, sort of….Ed Dieden and I will be camping for three nights on the way there – starting with the Carrizo Plain – and then for two or three nights on the way back. Ed has a Marine Corps reunion on Wednesday night and I am going along as ballast.
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The Biggest Supermoon in Years over San Francisco
Yeah, Josh Whedon
(As Michele said)
“even Jimmy Carter would have given that order”
Obama is using the anniversary of SEAL Team Six killing Osama bin Laden in a campaign ad and it seems to be driving the Republicans nuts. They say he shouldn’t be politicizing it. I can understand that argument although bragging about one’s successes seems to be fairly standard political fare. Romney, in trying to discount President Obama’s call on ordering Team Six into Pakistan said “even Jimmy Carter would have given that order” as if it were nothing.
I am not a big Jimmy Carter fan, I don’t think he had the right personality to be president – certainly not at that time – but Romney’s offhanded, even casual, slur against Carter pisses me off. Carter has more military expearance – ten years as a officer on Nuclear subs – than Romney’s whole family – about ten years more – and a much better idea of the risks involved. Cater’s call was gutsy and failed – it was close to working according to Mark Bowden in The Desert One Debacle – ruining Carter’s chances of reelection.
Romney will say anything in his effort to get elected. What an asshole.
Spring is springing
After rain, cold rain, warm rain,late rain, and then a hot week, our garden is alive. When I go for a walk in the woods – that seems a little pretentious and wildness seems way too pretentious, but both are more or less true – behind our lot, everything is growing but not much is blooming. But, in the garden, everything seems to be blooming. I am not sure why there is a disparity between the two although most of the stuff in the garden has been picked because it blooms.
When Michele’s dad died, twelve years ago, she bought a dogwood that was blooming so that – each year – it would be a a memorial and this year, our Fremontia – Fremontodendron californicum, a California native – joined it in a big way.
Along with some native irises ( Iris douglasiana) .
And lots of rhoddies whose tags have been lost and their names forgotten.
Spring is my favorite time of year and nothing says death and rebirth as much as a garden.