Current Events

Rather than address real issues facing the poor and the crappy inner city schools in their communities, let's send the poor kids to the rich kid schools while simultaneously sending the richies to the poor kid schools! If that doesn't fix everything, it should at least skew "the numbers" enough to make it look like it's fixing everything, right? OR, maybe it will make it so the poor kids get a 'better education' than the richies, giving them an advantage so they can go on to make more money as adults, thereby displacing the richies.

Sounds like a cycle to me.

Hmmmm.

Sincerely,

Lots of people in Wake County, NC

Unseasonable warmth

We've been having some pretty nasty winter weather here in Raleigh. Then, there was this nice patch of warmth that came in for most of this week. Our house doesn't have a lot of natural light, so the plants take a big hit during winter. I count on these opportunities every winter to get them out and soak up some sun (and in the case of the last 2 days: rain) to make it until Spring. What i do NOT count on is looking out the window early in the morning and seeing them getting snowed on:






The last pic is taken from the one above it and enlarged. If I have to do digital magic to make the snow visible it must not have been that bad, right? Yeah, I guess. The important thing is it didn't frost last night while they were out. Had that happened, and had harm befallen even one of the 6 plants pictured, it would've been "Go time" between me and....frost.