Garden time, Espresso Tales and shame on the Washington elite

Hey chickies and roos!  Getting my garden going is consuming my time these days but it will soon be time to water, water, water and watch the plants grow.  It has been very warm this weekend, requiring me to hide inside during the heat of the day.

Last weekend was Memorial Day and i was determined to get some reading done so i read Alexander McCall Smith's latest installment of The Number One Ladies Detective Agency.  i love his books so much.  i savor them like a one savors a cup of great coffee.  His Espresso Tales series is wonderful as well.  i have been collecting his Isabelle Dalhousie books to take on one day.  

Most exciting of all, i was able to download podcasts for a new book that McCall Smith serialized at the Telegraph.  i am excited to go to work now, since i listen to podcasts while i work (after listening to Thom Hartmann, of course).

News in politics:  Sonia Sotomayor has been nominated by President Obama to the Supreme Court and she is being skewered by conservatives.  It is what they do... idiots.  If they keep it up long enough they will have alienated every possible voting group.  So, of course, i hope they keep it up.

The usual parsing of the candidates spoken or written words is the first shot.  What really pisses me off is that the media perpetuates the parsing by repeating it in the form of questions to 'panelists'. They don't play the whole clip so that the audience can hear it for themselves; they play a clip of Rush or Newt repeating a small portion of a statement she has made.

The best i can figure is that she is fairly neutral politically.  She is not liberal or conservative.  i would have preferred an unabashed liberal but Obama is not a liberal so i suppose i shouldn't be surprised.

Speaking of Obama, i have never expected him to be perfect but his lack of action on gays in the military has me very disappointed.  And, my former senator from Montana, Max Baucus, is downright shameful.  He refuses to let single payor advocates in on the healthcare legislation hearings.  He and so many others are refusing to allow single payor to be part of the process.  This means, chickies and roos, that our government is going to pass a healthcare bill that will institutionalize profits for healthcare companies.  The same healthcare companies that refuse people due to 'previously existing conditions' are now going to profit off the goverment teat. Now the poor will be forced to buy healthcare, taking money they barely have and giving it to healthcare companies.  i am so disgusted and so disappointed in Obama.  Max Baucus and President Obama have great healthcare but don't think my grandson should have it, unless, of course, his parents miraculously come up with a way to pay for it.  

Per usual, i am mad as a wet hen.  i don't know what i expected from the Washington elite.  i guess i thought things would change but Obama is slowly but surely turning into one.  What a disappointment. Shame on you Obama, shame on you Max Baucus, shame on Republican, shame on all of them.

Stay-cation is about over... happy gardener going back to work tomorrow

i can't show you pictures cause the camera has a dead battery, but the yard, garden boxes and coop are starting to come together. i waited five days for P to till a small plot for my sunflowers with a motorized tiller but to no avail. So, this morning i did it by hand between rain showers.

i am days away from chamomile tea. The two small starts i potted have taken off, are about 3 feet tall and already blooming. There are three kinds of lavender in the yard; french, spanish and english. i should have a really nice sunflower patch. i'm really excited about harvesting the seeds this fall. i found a great recipe for roasting the seeds. The trick is boiling the seeds before baking them. i hope to have five or six mammoth heads to harvest. For Solstice, i will give little packets of roasted sunflower seeds in honor of the returning light.

Shush... don't tell anyone that i'm going all pagan on their asses.

You know, chickies and roos, i am very tired. It is almost 11:30 and i need to get to bed.

Love and light mi amigos.
C

The audacity of hope, mi amigos, the audacity of hope

So my camera is needs a new battery already. i have to completely rethink how i use it. The battery does not seem to last too long and at $10 to $15 a pop, it is not even practical. i must be missing something. There is a camera shop near my work so i guess i'll be visiting them soon.

i am really enjoying my stay-cation. Much relaxing and many chores taken care of; not too bad. Tomorrow i am going to do one of my favorite things.... second-hand store shopping. Ohhh, i wonder what treasure i will find? Oh, and Craft Warehouse; i picked up a soldering tool today from a mark-down bin and want to see what i can do with it. So, i want to go by Craft Warehouse and stroll around and see what project i can come up with.

Today is Sunday and i almost always watch the talking heads. It is "try to deflect attention about torture from the Bush/Darth/Rummy/Rice/Yu cabal to Nancy Pelosi" week. I guess i understand, it's worse to NOT report torture than to actually DO torture.
And, what if she had reported it? Do you remember what it was like in 2003ish? If Nancy Pelosi had learned of torture going on and had gone public she would have been accused of treason. i forget who, but a senator learned of the illegal wire tapping going on long before it went public, and knew he could not go public because he would be charged with divulging secrets by the Bush cabal and Homeland Security so he composed a letter of objection and locked it in his safe. He could not even tell his staff.

And here we are in 2009 and now we are being subjected to a kind of 'blame the victim' game by the conservatives. If they can create a firestorm around, preferably a democrat, they can BLAME THE DEMOCRATS FOR TORTURE i can heare them now, "You Democrats didn't stop us, so it's your fault".

Oy....

i really hope we have learned our lesson and that people will see through this tactic. My personal audacity of hope.

Hey, chickies and roos, i know this is all boring and i am actually relaxed and enjoying my stay-cation so i hate to end on a sour note. The audacity of hope, mi amigos, the audacity of hope.

Love and light to you.

Hey, chickies and roos! Sorry for the lack of postings. The big dig in my back yard is still a work in progress and it is keeping me from my garden work. i still have sunflowers, watermelon and maybe cucumbers (if the seeds don't sprout soon) to plant. Oh, and the raspberries to wire up.

i am on 'stay-cation' until Wednesday and doing a lot of yard and garden work. Love it. i will post more tomorrow, maybe post some pictures (if the yard begins to look nice and organized). The Sunday shows are on in the morning so i may have some things to say about politics.... per usual.

Now it's late and my internet has been out for a day or so i just wanted to reach out to all of you ...(two people?).

Tomorrow, chickies and roos! Love and light, mi amigos. Solstice approaches.

Dick!

Don't watch Darth Cheney! Refuse to tune into his interviews. Please, people, just turn your back on the man. Shame him. Persona non-grada.

Nuf said.