Very Close to White Christmas

24o!!! I fear for the plumeria, the lime tree and the orchids. But the beauty of the frost! The ice on the manzanita reminded me of the glacier snaking its way into Glacier Bay.




















Even Miss Tiggie Winkle got a dusting of the crystals.



























http://www.citizenlink.org/Stoplight/A000005834.cfm


A Cyber Friend sent me the above link. It is a great little video about TOSSMAS--what to do with all the "holiday" catalogs that clog the mailbox this time of year. If it's for a 'holiday' it gets TOSSED! I think I'm noticing a slight increase in the use of MERRY CHRISTMAS this year. Lowe's even mentions the "hush hush" word. Congratulations to them!



The first robbery and pillage of the American taxpayer was for approximately 800 billion dollars. Somehow this is supposed to help "us." But what if 300 million of US got one million dollars each? That would be about 300 trillion dollars. Have you tried to find out how many residential mortgage loans there are? In 2006 it amounted to $3.267 trillion in residential loans that originated in the U.S How many people have their homes paid off? How many people have more than one mortgage? Do we trust the politicians to handle a sum of money that is so large the calculator on your cell phone can't handle the number of zeroes?? Can you even count the zeroes without losing your place?
Just wondering......


And one more thing--are the same people who think Caroline Kennedy is the most gifted person in New York to be a US Senator the same people who think Sarah Palin is an unqualified provincial yokel? Odd how that works. One comes from parents who value marriage and their faith, who attends church and is invested in having a Christian home, who put herself through college and who goes to work everyday. And the other---well, we all know about those family values.