Spring-Easter and Fun Stuff

Spring is here—finally. I had enough snow and ice and am ready for some good old fashioned wind, rain and hail, who doesn’t love spring in Wyoming.

 

Watch any TV lately? Basketball on every channel—if you like basketball this is the time of year to get by the TV and enjoy.

 

Watched the grand kids hunt Easter eggs Sunday. I can still remember when I was running through the park in the city-wide hunt for the elusive eggs. Seems like it was not fifty years ago—but it was.

 

Hey on a lighter note. I have been reading all the stuff about who the political candidates are related to. They talk about tenth cousins once removed. I have no idea what that even means. I had a great uncle that said he, “never wanted to see the family tree because he was afraid he would find someone hung as a horse thief.” I would love it if I could find a horse thief as my tenth cousin or even a great-great somebody who was hung as a horse thief—COOL.

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Leap Year

Hurray for me, I made it through leap day, that good old extra day that comes but once every four years. Every year we elect a president we get an extra day. Do we really need an extra day of campaigning?

Here is what needs to be done. Add a bunch of extra days to the other three years and then every fourth year—the presidential lies year. Ur-a, I meant campaigning year. Anyway let’s make that year just two days long, February 29th and the first Tuesday after a Monday in November (Election Day). Only it won’t be the first Tuesday after a Monday in November anymore- we’ll just call it the next day after the leap day every fourth year.

This way all campaigning will take place on leap day with 24 hours of TV campaign commercials and every page of the newspaper campaign adds. I will spend the day on the ski slope and then watch some TVO when I get home.

What a great plan!

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Debate

How about that presidential debate last night?

Very spirited, loved every minute of it.

Makes you proud to be an American, doesn’t it?

Now we know who to vote for come November.

Naw, you’re right I didn’t watch it either.

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Winter

Ode To Winter

 

It is winter

In Wyoming

Tomorrow it will

Be spring

The next day

It will be summer

The day after

Winter again

I like winter

Summer lasts

Too long

 

(From my, soon to be published, new book - Most Forgetable Poems, ever)

© 2008 N A Waring

 

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Easter & Stuff

Looks like we have an early Easter this year, my calendar has it scheduled for March 23ed. March 23ed is that right—haven’t even bought my Easter bonnet yet.

          Thinking about Easter because yesterday was Ash Wednesday and Easter cannot be far behind. Easter usually means spring but this cold weather makes it look like a long time coming.

          I have been told, by weak sources, that congress would like to move Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and Easter to set days—too hard to figure which days to go to work and which days to stay home. Their proposal moves both Ash Wednesday and Good Friday to Monday’s so that congress can have a few more holidays. Easter would be left on Sunday but the Monday after Easter would be called Easter Bunny Day and a national holiday. Easter Bunny day would be a traditional holiday complete with roasted rabbit, chocolate moose and a fine carrot salad, fireworks optional.

          Speaking of congress—how about that budget, so many zeroes I am not sure of the number. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Their checkbook is never ending. I have a way to save our governmental budget crisis—Hey Congress, spend only what you take in, no more. That’s how we common American types do it.

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Snow & Wind Again

Snowed yesterday and the wind blew today

Forecast for the rest of the week, snow and wind

60% chance of snow and 100% chance of wind

Shoveled snow yesterday and today

Will shovel snow tomorrow and possible forever

On – No, someone call Bill Murray

It’s Groundhog Day—AGAIN  AGAIN   AGAIN

 

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More Election Stuff

             Super Tuesday has passed; will we ever be the same again? Still cannot make up my mind who to vote for. Most candidate promises are things that would need to be done by congress not the president so they all look pretty empty to me. Congress is still messing with the economic stimulus package—think we’ll get anything?

            So here is what I am waiting for. Someone who will jump start the economy, lower taxes, balance the budget, pay off the national debt, find an acceptable workable solution in Iraq, take care of health care, raise the standard of living for all Americans and lastly a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.

            Guess I will be voting for myself, same as last time. Come to think of it, same as I have voted since Nixon.  

            Now if I could just get appointed secretary of something or ambassador to somewhere I would be one happy voter.

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