What Once Was - Is No More

I have been spending some time cleaning out all of the gardens around the house. With the weather being so warm, some of the day lilies are still trying to grow. Once a good hard freeze, they will finally quit trying to grow and they will go dormant. Until then it seems like every couple of weeks I cut them down to just above ground level. Below are the last couple of irises that are blooming. This is the first year that they have bloomed so late in the year. It must be the warmer weather.

Troubled Times

Yesterday Veronica and I went to Walmart to do some shopping. While in there, I noticed that there were about 3 full rows, both sides, of Holloween items...mask, costumes and any other Holloween dress up items that you can think of. I could not believe how much Halloween items were leftover this year. This was the most by far, that I have ever seen before. And that is not to mention all of the leftover Halloween candy that they had on sale. Just goes to show you how bad and how deeply our economy is hurting. With everyone tightening their belts and keeping their budgets down to the minimum, they might be foregoing Halloween stuff and saving what they have for the holiday season. The way things appear to be going, people won't be spending near as much this holiday season. The retail stores will really have to discount their product lines and even if they do that, it will be a really rough sales time for them. For those of you that have the extra cash/plastic for holiday spending, wait long enough and there should be some great bargains to be had. As for me...just give me some coal and I will be happy. That will be a lot cheaper than the 52" 1080p plasma tv that I have been longing for.....but by getting the coal, I will save a lot of stress on worrying about paying those plastic cards off within my lifetime.

A Fresh Start For A Better Tomorrow

What an important day today is for the future of our country. With all of the upheaval and problems within our country and globally, hopefully the next leader of our country will have the abilty to lead our country to a stronger and better future. Hopefully a year from now I will be able to say that I am better off and the country as a whole is in a better place than we are today.
With that being said, I just returned from voting. I decided to wait until after the "before going to work" crowd had the opportunity to vote and prior to the "lunch hour" voters arriving. I arrived at the voting location around 10 AM and I was leaving around 10:20AM. There were only about 7 people in line ahead of me. It went much quicker than I ever imagined, especially after watching tv and seeing the huge lines in other areas of the country. I went their expecting a 4 hour wait. What a nice surprise. Now it is time to watch tv and see who will be our next leader.