Obama Saves Money

Obama to "Slash" 100 Million of Government Spending

Please, someone tell me this is a joke.... please!

*****Our current President (who has just returned from his most recent bashing the USA trip), has finally stepped up to the bat and recognized that the government spends too much money. Solutions include buying office supplies in bulk, consolidating rental space for government offices, and using the internet for publication of forfeiture notices from newspapers to the Internet.

*****This after spending more money than all previous Presidents combined. Well, I just feel a lot better now.

According to the AP:

*****"The federal deficit for March alone was $192.3 billion, and $100 million would represent a minuscule portion of that sum, roughly one-twentieth of 1 percent. Obama in February brought forward a $3.6 trillion budget for the 2010 fiscal year, beginning Oct. 1, a proposal that would produce $9.3 trillion in deficits over the next decade."



On Political Correctness, or, How To Speak Nonspeak
by John C. Wright

*****"In language as in economics, whatever you subsidize, you multiply. Since we have spent years erecting utterly false and nonsensical verbal signs that point away from reality rather than toward it, in the name of ceasing to offend the sensitive, instead of a polite society, we achieved the opposite." Read the whole essay. It's wonderful!

First Cut

I cut the lawn yesterday. Whoooee! Spring is here!

Look Who Came for Dinner

*****The field across from our house is a favorite stopping off place for the Canadian Honkers, both in the spring and fall. Many times there are hundreds and hundreds out there at one time. Often when they take flight they will fly so low over our house you can hear the sound of their wings - a sound like no other.

*****In the eleven years we have lived here, they have never crossed the road until today. First they were out partaking of the water in the road and headed back out to the field. Just a few minutes ago we looked out and the four of them were strolling on our east lawn having a grand time.








A little winter damage...

*****I took these pictures a week ago before the last of the snow was gone. It actually looks worse now. You can see the problem posed by the mashed juniper ruining the symmetry of the area inside our curved driveway we call the "circle." Oh, the angst!!

Spring has Sprung

I was planning on doing a brilliant Holy Spirit 101 for my post, but gosh darn it, the weather was so outstanding today that I decided to just talk about spring.

One of my favorite things about this little part of North Idaho is how early spring comes. I’ll be out pruning trees over the next week and working in the garden by the first of April. The lilacs buds are swollen and some of my early tulips are already coming up.

This year we have had an unusual number of Cedar Waxwings flocking in our yard. By unusual number I mean over a thousand at a time and by yard I mean about 3 acres of gardens and 2 acres of fields. They love the tiny crabapples, but most of all they love the juniper berries. While watching them this morning, I discovered the reason they loved juniper berries so much was because they were inebriated. My drink of choice when I was still an active alcoholic was a martini, so I can sure understand why they would be going nuts over the junipers.

The robins have also arrived and are busy looking for places to build nests. Which brings up the subject of cats. Our Erica is quite the little bird hunter. She’s a tiny little cat but I’ve seen her snag birds that are bigger than she is. When we bought this property it didn’t have one single tree and we have planted over 200 trees in order to enjoy the birds. In trying to find a solution for this problem I stumbled onto the “CatBib”. This thing really works. Erica is happy doing her stalking thingy but she can’t catch them. The bib throws her timing off just enough so that when she actually tries to pounce, she misses.

I’ll be rushing my order off in the next few days for several more CatBibs, because sometimes her safety collar comes off and she loses her bib. Hopefully, we may be able to find last year’s bib after the snow completely melts and before the plants are completely leafed out, but if we don’t, we’ll be prepared. If you have a kitty who can’t resist going after birds, check into the CatBib. This is the Catholic cat version of social justice as seen through the eyes of the birds.