late september

I thought all the road work in lexington was going to come to at least a temporary halt while WEG is in town (WEG being the World Equestrian Games), but it hasn't. Some of it has, but an entire lane always seems to be blocked on North Broadway (US 68) even now.

Rand Paul now has a plan to rescue Medicare; it's got to do with huge deductibles, regardless of income. Great. Maybe enough people will actually listen to him to keep him from getting elected (this is only a minor and the latest of his ideas...the best is disapproving of the 1964 legislation outlawing discrimination on the basis of race...he has a problem with opposition to discrimination against the handicapped, too).

And now there's a reality TV show about a polygamous Mormon family in Utah. Four wives, 13 or so children, and the daddy doesn't think there should be any opposition to it...

Angels and ministers of grace...

Sunday, 26th September, I think

lovely weather. NOT HOT. Not only cool, but it appears that some (!) of the grass may come back green in a few days because of the rain we had a couple of days ago. It currently looks like south Texas during one of their all-too-frequent droughts around here. Went to church today, where there were a couple of surprises, mostly someone passed out from low blood sugar...lots of doctors in an Episcopal cathedral parish, though, so she received instant attention.

Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah, the best hymn today. I love it, but it reminds me of Mother's funeral; we wanted that, along with "A Mighty Fortress Is our God" written by Martin Luther, and "Amazing Grace" written by an Anglican slave trader. "Guide Me..." is a Welsh hymn, so NONE of them are of Baptist origin. Unfortunately, it's not in the current Baptist Hymnal, and it got canned.

Evensong tonight was lovely. The setting wasn't great, but the responses by Gerre Hancock are wonderful. The anthem was a winner, "King of Glory", and they sang the Talbot 150th Psalm in Recession, which mostly made anything else worth waiting through.

Had planned to make this Rosario recipe for enchiladas, but the sauce sorta takes awhile, and I confess that I ran out of steam...

WEG and things

So the World Equestrian Games start tomorrow, first time they haven't been in Europe (it's evidently sorta like the Olympics for horses) and some of us are seriously tired of all the hoopla that has been going on in prep for at least two years.

It's actually RAINING, but not nearly enough. It is supposed to cool off, though. Everything looks awful. Brown, cracked, kinda like texas in a drought, but the trees are taller.

I've been depressed all day, thinking about that woman (Teresa Lewis, I think) who was executed last night in Virginia. IQ of 70-72, 41, evidently conned by a boyfriend into leaving the door to her trailer unlocked overnight so he (the boyfriend) and a pal could come in and kill her husband and stepson, and all collect his $250k or so in insurance money. She pleaded guilty; all three were convicted, but the two guys who actually did it got life, and she got the death penalty. The boyfriend wrote a letter or something saying the whole thing had been his idea and at his instigation before he killed himself in prison. Yes, she was what my mother used to call "white trash", but she was also dumb, uneducated, gullible, and met an end that could happen to somebody at my house unless he had a support system and community that kept him on a very short leash. I am sick about it. And have been all day.

And it's the election silly season. The TV stations here in central Kentucky seem to have non-stop campaign ads, the national Republican party trying to get Rand Paul (not legitimately board certified ophthalmologist son of Texan Ron Paul, who claims eastern Kentucky's drug problem should be handled locally (!), Social Security should be privatized, mine safety issues should be dealt with locally, etc....) elected, after he defeated the Mitch-McConnell-anointed Trey Grayson in the Republican primary. I wouldn't have voted for Trey Grayson, but he's not scary stupid like Rand Paul. And Andy Barr has buckets of coal company and family money trying to get him elected to Ben Chandler's House seat. I don't much like Ben Chandler, who is pretty much a Democrat in name only, but I've known Andy most of his life. He's a nice guy, but I'm underwhelmed.

Maybe I'll go cook.

lillie

More Miscellany

So why exactly has it been HOTTER in central Kentucky ALL SUMMER basically than it has been in Goliad, Texas, e.g., where I grew up?

Another issue is, why exactly am I supposed to believe that in addition to the external temperature (and internal, sometimes, e.g., when the heat pump hasn't been working, which is far too much of the time), with the grass dead, the pond empty, everything looking awful, ground cracked, the way the grass and ground looks in a serious drought in south Texas, along with Greenland's glaciers melting, also the Antarctic ice melting, the polar bears having trouble figuring out where exactly they are supposed to go, another year with a zillion hurricanes, etc., etc., and I'm supposed to believe that climate change is a hoax? Also despite all (ALL!) the reports and warnings in the last couple of decades from the professionals who spend all (and I mean ALL...hey, I'm married to one of these researchers...) their time studying this stuff that this is exactly what has been going on and exactly what we could expect?

In case you haven't figured it out, I think it's far too hot up here in central Kentucky for late October...and the farm looks awful...

and the mower is on the blink.

and if it weren't (it's in the shop), Martin would be balking at mowing because of the dust, which is because it's so dusty and dry...

I hate dealing with taxes...

I managed to actually order a new lint filter to replace the badly damaged one we currently have for the dryer.

LOTS of spiders...

The most recent male tabby (Casper, although Martin wanted to name him Max, which would have made him the THIRD Max) seems to be a good mouser, also talented in catching moles. There are a lot of them around here, too.

If it ever gets cold (!) up here, there may be a shortage of firewood, which wouldn't be good.

Have been doing some serious cooking...

Bobbie Douglas died two or three weeks ago, and I watched Paula Deen's cooking show this afternoon. Everybody was right: Bobbie looked like Paula Deen. Much smarter than Paula Deen, however, and I'm certain, much nicer and more interesting, as well...

Only one (or two, depending on your perspective) political comment(s). I do not have a clue (A SINGLE CLUE) why ANYBODY is taking Rand Paul seriously, or WHY anybody intelligent would even consider voting for him!. And then, there is Andy Barr, who is not only running against, but also running ads telling lies about, Ben Chandler (these guys are both in Kentucky). I don't like Ben Chandler all that much, BUT what Andy Barr, whom I've known most of his life, and he is indeed a very nice guy (Andy, that is...) has said, is simply NOT TRUE....

And Rand Paul is a seriously clueless candidate who is spectacularly ignorant of the facts of life in Kentucky...so I will shut up...

Cheers, Lillie

miscellany september 2010

The political scene in Kentucky is getting ugly. I wonder how many people I've made furious/alienated with my yard signs. Quite possibly several. This is Bourbon County, Kentucky, don't forget.

It seems that it's going to be HOTTER here in central Kentucky ALL WEEK than it is in Goliad. Goliad, Texas, that is, southeast of San Antonio. Do you think this fact is going to have any effect on the climate change deniers I know? It's now late September, and the highs are in the 90's all week, everything is brown, dry, and awful. I had to fill up the pond in the back yard yesterday as it was nearly totally dry and I was afraid the goldfish would die...

More later...

Cheers, Lillie