It’s craziness in New England I tell you.

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Today, it was a glorious day in Blandford. It was a balmy 65 degrees, I took Rex and Jack for a walk four times without a jacket. But today’s date is March 18th, we just went through the Ides of March and Saint Patrick’s Day, the lion and lamb are nowhere to be found. I went into the backyard and got into a panic because all my plants looked dead and for a minute, I thought that we were in mid May, I calmed myself down when I realized that we are still in March. It is normal that my plants still look like winter is still here,but it will be interesting when Friday rolls around because my plants will have had 5 days of 60 degree weather. I can’t help but wonder if my Azaleas will be budding soon and if the Lilacs will be following as well. I spent some time outside, with my majestic German Shepard Rex lying outside keeping my company, while I cleaned out all the fall and winter debris from the side bed. Shoots are sprouting, they could very well be weeds,I’m not sure. I forget every single year what exactly is in the side bed because I plant new additions and I can’t remember the following year. It is part of the spring excitement, going through the various little flower beds wondering if the shoot is a weed or a perennial, eventually after a few weeks, even I the novice gardener that I still am, figure it out. I could be more methodical about my landscaping but where’s the fun in that? Are you a good plant or a bad plant? To weed or not to weed, that is the question. It is hard to contain my desire to get my hands nice and dirty with the gorgeous weather that is going to bless us for the following weeks. Patience, patience is required but I don’t want to be patient! I want to garden! It is still too soon arghh!

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My Best Hat Look

Derby Hat 2007

I have a face that can wear many different styles of hat, my favorite style is the wide brimmed sun hat to keep the sun away from my face. My least favorite head covering is the baseball cap. I think that hats have become underrated and underutilized, they used to be a great way to finish an ensemble.

‘Obamacare’ Foes Fear Ballooning Big Government

What astounds me is that these people aren’t converging in masses at health insurance companies front doors. Why aren’t these people asking why is some insurance “adjuster” denying me a procedure that I so very much need or a prescription that would lessen my pain? The reasoning behind the Affordable Patient Act is sound, if everyone is insured, millions of health care consumers, then by the law of averages the premiums will go down. There is more work to be done to reduce long term health care costs but this is a starting point, such as our social security program was when it was debuted in 1935, it was a starting point and gradually throughout the years it has grown into the social insurance program of today. If left alone, the health care coverage act will evolve into something that we will take as a right and all this brouhaha will be another footnote in history.
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Protests Shut Down Monsanto in Davis CA.

This exciting to see. I know that in France, a man successfully sued Monsanto for damages caused by exposure to the pesticide Roundup and France has mandated to have the nation as a whole decrease their usage of pesticides in agricultural practices by 50%. I am hoping that one day our government, the F.D.A and the USDA will wake up and realize that altering our food sources is altering our bodies from within and we as humans will be paying that costly price forward to our offspring. Eating food as a whole in this country has become a contentious issue, the fight against antibiotics and hormones in our animals and the fight against pesticides and modified seeds in our produce combined with the chemical additives in everything else, makes eating healthy an expensive proposition. I wish that we had more respect for our food and our environment and that we would lose the mindset that “we have the technology, we can make it better, grow faster and bigger and shinier” leave mother nature alone.
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Mitt Romney of Mars

Interesting analogy, except for the fact that a movie doing well doesn’t have the potential to hurt America like a Romney presidency can, if only we could be sure that Romney won’t win the Presidency, I would sleep better at night. Bill Maher calls Romney a centrist and equates him to President Obama but I disagree. I understand that Romney is pandering to the far right during this primary season, it makes sense since he is courting the most die hard republicans out there. I beg to differ however that Romney, if he won, would govern as a centrist. His experience as Bain founder would inform his economic decisions meaning repealing the Dodd-Frank act with his republican colleagues in congress. I can see him undoing the Affordable Patient Act, I can see him putting more right wing activist judges on the Supreme Court. I don’t see him being in favor of safeguarding our environment whatsoever, his whole thesis of not apologizing for America is code for more of a Bush foreign policy which did not serve us well in the past. A Romney presidency, if you are in the top tier most likely means more excessive profit by any means, yet if you are in the rest of the nation’s bottom of the pyramid than it will come to mean continued high employment, even lower wages because of more right to work laws, less health care coverage and the shredding of whatever is left of our social insurance policies.
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