Happy Independence Day

It will be a fairly quiet day today, except for all the fireworks of course.  I managed to get half of the lawn mowed before it started raining, again.  Guess we'll have to wait for a sunny day to fly the flag. 

Irony

 So planting the garden this year was hampered by a lot of rain.  It is not surprising then that the rainy trend continues, and the installation of the soaker hoses has also been delayed by a large amount of rain.

On the plus side, the raspberries are growing well this year.  Last year they barely produced, because what didn't shrivel from lack of water were eaten by birds or sucked dry by yellow jackets and bees.

Happy Spring Election Day

 It's snowing some more.  The weather forecasters are predicting a lot today and have extended the predicted showers into Thursday.  I'm fine with them being wrong and getting less snow.  Cancellations have been accumulating on the news websites.  So far it is mostly extracurricular activities for schools, but Catholic Churches are also cancelling bingo, so they must be expecting it to get really bad.  We're praying for safe travels for those people who have to get places.

Spring elections are today.  Politics has never been clean, gentlemanly, or ladylike.  I don't know why folks expect politicians to be nice and polite and play fair.  Maybe the referendums on the ballot today will help reduce election tampering in the future, but they won't help much with todays election.  I wonder if Madison, Milwaukee, and Green Bay will have voter turnouts in excess of previously registered voters.  I also really hate it when dead people vote, and when people who have moved out of state continue to vote.  (A friend of ours found the previous owner of his house was still a registered voter and may have been absentee voting when he should not have.)  Unfortunately this is earth not heaven, but I do wish that the people cheating in elections would get a special place in hell when their time comes.  Of course that doesn't stop them from cheating now.

Spring?

 I hope you had a Happy Easter.  Around here for us it was very quiet, with lots of naps.

With the announcement of several road construction projects due to begin today, the weather has basically announced, "April fools!  Oh no you don't!"  It's the day after Easter, and yes indeed it is snowing, and will probably continue to do so until Wednesday.