If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
- - - Alfred North Whitehead
The pets are feeling a bit left out....with home tours, music fests, children playing, river sports...they haven't been the center of attention for a while so today they are once again the "featured" photo guests.
My animals, though they can't really know their picture is being made, seem to enjoy the camera. Or they are used to it being around. They seem to sense it is some sort of special attention or honor to have it pointed at them so they oblige and often pose.
My non-organic tomatoes:
I was disappointed and shocked to find that my tomatoes, according to my husband, Toonces, the know-it-all, are not organic. Priding myself in being all natural....never using pesticides on flowers or veggies....the special care I'd taken, all in vain because of a few doses of Miracle Grow. Who would have thought?
me: "I only used it twice."
T: "It is a chemical fertilizer."
me: "But, but I only used it twice in a small dose. It's just little crystals you put in water from a box!:
T: "Baby, it is a chemical fertilizer."
me: "So I'm not organic?"
T: "And you're the one concerned with the USDA reducing the guidelines for Walmart....mmmm mmmm mmmm."
me: "Well crap."
Hey, they are still great. Big and Tasty...I had a summer tomato sandwich just this afternoon. One of the best things in the world. Oh, but Toonces doesn't like those (loves tomatoes, but not a sandwich of them)...he's just weird. But that is another post for another day.
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My apologies to regular blog followers (both of you) for the prolonged silence. Of late, the election has demanded most of my attention. With just days to go, I thought I would shift topics to the sales tax holiday.
I’ve read the research - real benefit for working- and middle-class families vs. political gimmick. At this point, I’m prepared to side with the first school of thought. I have two kids headed to school this year (4th grade and kindergarten) and this will help. I’m not so sure it will help the businesses, since it just means I’ll buy all the stuff at once this year. I do buy the argument that it will help Tennessee businesses because I’ll shop closer to home instead of heading to Exit 7 to avoid the state’s outrageous sales tax rate.
What about you? Are you planning to take advantage of the sales tax holiday?
- Andrea Hopkins
Talk about bad luck....
Very sad
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A disabled man who lost his parents in a car wreck, his barn in a fire and his housemate in a nearby river lost his own life when his house burned to the ground Saturday night, friends said.
Talk about bad luck....
Very sad
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A disabled man who lost his parents in a car wreck, his barn in a fire and his housemate in a nearby river lost his own life when his house burned to the ground Saturday night, friends said.
NLS has the the complete Mason Dixon poll on the marriage amendment. Ben broke the story and had the numbers up last night in another exclusive! VCA and Nova Town Hall also have thoughts. I don't think there is any doubt this amendment will pass. I have predicted voter turnout to be very high among those who support the amendment. They can argue the wording but most voters just care about banning same sex marriage. I think it will pass easily by a higher percentage than the poll shows.
This can only be seen as a positive for Sen Allen. Am I wrong?
Bearing Drift is asking
"Is offending the gay community something that Webb and Kellam will do or is that constituency necessary to their campaigns in terms of activism and support?"
NLS has the the complete Mason Dixon poll on the marriage amendment. Ben broke the story and had the numbers up last night in another exclusive! VCA and Nova Town Hall also have thoughts. I don't think there is any doubt this amendment will pass. I have predicted voter turnout to be very high among those who support the amendment. They can argue the wording but most voters just care about banning same sex marriage. I think it will pass easily by a higher percentage than the poll shows.
This can only be seen as a positive for Sen Allen. Am I wrong?
Bearing Drift is asking
"Is offending the gay community something that Webb and Kellam will do or is that constituency necessary to their campaigns in terms of activism and support?"
FloydFest is a mixture of young and old, old-time hippie and old-time traditional, gay and straight, liberal and conservative, odd and odder.
After five years, the event that few gave much chance of success continues to grow and fulfil the dreams of organizers Erika Hodges and Kris Johnson but the event becomes reality because of the overwhelming effort of a small paid staff and an army of volunteers.
The music is interesting and fun to photograph but ss a photographer, though, I try to look beyond the event and at the people because it is the unusual mix of humanity that comes together in that sprawling field in Patrick County that really defines FloydFest. Like the Friday Night Jamboree, the people make the event and you find a hodgepod enjoying the show.
Here are a few more shots gathered from the weekend. I'm still sorting through more than a thousand images and will put some more together in both slide shows and postings throughout the week.
Editor & Publisher, a trade journal of American newspapers, says the U.S. press mostly has failed to report that the Israeli weapons currently shattering Lebanon were provided by America. But Arabs are well aware of this ugly fact — and hatred for America grows each time a civilian neighborhood is blasted by U.S.-made rockets, bombs and planes. [my emphasis] ( link )No ambiguity there.
Poll shows Southside backs Allen
By Mac McLean, Danville Register & Bee staff writer
DANVILLE, Va. - The Lynchburg/Southside Virginia area was one of three regions where a majority of voters supported U.S. Sen. George Allen, R-Va., in his race against Democrat Jim Webb, according to a Mason-Dixon poll released Sunday.
The poll showed 52 percent of voters in this area supported Allen, 24 percent supported Webb and 24 percent were undecided. (link)
Democrats see minimum wage, stem cells as hot issuesHot issues. Stem cells and the minimum wage.
By Christina Bellantoni, The Washington Times
Democrats will spend August stumping on issues they say matter most to voters -- such as raising the minimum wage and funding stem-cell research -- as they scramble to try to regain control of the House or the Senate.
Some optimistic members of the minority party say a focus on middle-class matters could lead to Democrats' recapturing both chambers. ( link )