Football withdrawals are tough, and I don’t care what addicts to other ‘things’ may say about how tough they have it! I am not particularly attracted to basketball or hockey (except at playoff time and including the final 4) and those are the only sports broadcast on TV during this season... It’s been so rough that this past Sunday I found myself watching a PBA (bowling) event, a rugby match between Argentina and Kenya, and then the golf Pebble Beach Pro-Am tournament (Tiger and Romo sucked!)
The weather up here in the Plateau finally cooled off a bit… This past week-end it went into the teens with some snow on Saturday (about two inches) and Sunday morning being as low as 13˚ Fahrenheit… We went through about 1/5 of a rick of wood the whole weekend. It is back to the new normal, about 55, as I write this…
Alex & Leah came to visit this past week-end… I believe they had planned the trip last week to come to meet, and play with, Molly; and when we told them about Molly being gone they found it a little awkward to back out, so they ended up coming anyway! They arrived Friday night, about 7:30 and left on Sunday morning at about 9:15. We had a great do-nothing, lounge-around-the-fire, play-Mexican-Train-dominos, eat-some, nap-some type of week-end…
I’m going to have to depend to my buddy Tim Halleran down in Florida (one of the sharpest minds I know – Republican by choice and Floridian by the grace of God), to try and help me understand the situation with the Republican Primaries… Now Santorum (as in “contraceptives are a sin”, and “women are unfit for front-line combat”) is in a statistical dead heat with Mitt the Marvelous in Michigan (Mitt’s home state) and nationwide as well… And all this after robo-Mitt won in Maine (my man Ron Paul says his people could not vote because of the weather) and won the CPAC straw poll (which Santorum says he would have won had Mitt not ferried in, and bought tickets for, 300 supporters). Is this the way the Republican Party has to tell mighty-Mitt “we really like your being around, but only as decoration” and “you say your lines very well, but cannot fool anybody”? And then, what in the world is being “Severely Conservative”? Is it something like ‘severely traumatized’ or ‘severely burned’…? Even Rush Limbaugh said in his EIB show “What the hell is that?” One of Mitt’s aids was heard saying: the Governor went off message; we need to work on that… No shit! Moving on, has anybody heard from Newt lately? Is he still around? Well, how does President Santorum grab you? Can you work with that?
Yesterday we have a dog visiting our yard… It looked like a hunting dog (pointer?) with his reflective collar and tags… He seemed to be friendly since he did not shy away when I spoke to him from the balcony. On the other hand, when our dogs came out to the balcony and barked at him he stood still with no intention of running away; instead he had an attitude of “bring it”. He stayed around for about 15 minutes ‘marking’ the yard and then he left… Next time he comes, if he still has the challenging attitude I will have to intervene and scare him away… Staying with dogs, the Pekinese won the Westminster Dog show; I did not agree with that!
St. Valentine Day came and went without too much fanfare. Hank (Douglas), Danny (Authement) and I got together and cooked dinner for Terri, Donna and Jan - our respective brides; good food + good company = great time!
Last, but not least, here is food for thought… Albert Einstein once said: “Life is like riding a bike… If you want to maintain your balance you must keep moving…”
So, keep moving, my friends...
2 comments:
Just read your blog for the first time. You are an awesome writer!
Keep it up!
Take care!
From your friend,
Esther a part-time Bluffite
Miguel,
The current field of Republicans have forgotten what the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan, used to say "Speak no ill will of a fellow Republican". Rather than sharpening their swords on Mr. Obama's policies they are standing in a circular firing squad picking one another off one at a time.
Mitt the Magnificent will probably be the last one standing sadly due to the financial resources he has or has backing him. I heard today that he will outspend Santorum 10:1 in Michigan. He, Mitt, realizes that Michigan, a home state of sorts, would be his Waterloo in the event of a loss. Obama's advisors have to be licking their chops. Tons of built in ad campaigns being shown every day in the news.
Mitt will appeal to the independants far better than Santorum which will be key in taking the White House. Santorum has the ear of the blue collar / envangelicals. If Mitt prevails I am sure Santorum will throw his support behind him.
Even I am getting overloaded with all the polical coverage. There are far more pressing issues such as Iran which we should all be getting a better handle on. Scary stuff happening.
I hope all is well. Be good and say hi to the gang
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