McCain-Obama Sign Score

Too nervous to count anymore (meaning - there are too many McCain signs for comfort).

McCain-Obama Sign Score

Sunday
Obama +18!!!

Sunday Sign Score

Obama +3

McCain-Obama Sign Score

Yesterday
I started counting the signs on my regular Country Club Hills-Clarendon route. The score was +3 McCain.

Today
+6 Obama!!!

And the Dog Store which has a running contest based on the sales of Obama and McCain dog cookies has it 79 to 34 in Obama's favor.

Waiting For Trick or Treaters (a little early)

Sleepytime

Moses Got the Mail First

Thought for the Day

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

-Wendell Johnson

Now I'll just have to find out about the "Monster Study" and "General Semantics."

It's Official

After seeing the despicably limp "support" BC gives Barack on "The View" and on "David Letterman", it's official: he's a sleaze and I'm quitting the fan club.

Morning Visitor

This morning I had a guest -a walking stick insect perched on the glass of my front door. I was able to get a good look at him (her?) (it?). What I initially thought was its head turned out to be its tail (with pincers); its head at the other end has two antenna. At first I thought it was missing two legs but I think they are folded together at its head. Evidently they can grow missing legs back. The glass gave me a really good view. Here's a better picture...

Views of the Richelieu River, Quebec

Our hotel was on the shore of the Richelieu River which flows from Lake Champlain to the St Lawrence River.

Jean-Daniel's Garden

Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Old Montreal

Old Montreal

Thought for the Day

Men who never get carried away should be.
- Malcolm Forbes

A Montreal Dessert

This Little Piggy...

Arlington County Fair

I Hate...

The word "awesome" which is "awe-ful"
Telephones
Mice
Two-Tone Houses
Traffic
Martyrs
Hotels that remind me of "Psycho"
Lima Beans
Squat toilets
The road to Hana, and any others like that

I Love...

Anything British
Bubble baths
The "Miracle" on 34th Street
Foie Gras
Pandas (especially baby pandas)
Kangaroos
Waz & Lennie
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
Myrna Loy
Movies from the 30's & 40"s
Puppies
Brini Maxwell
Hats
Liver
Radios
Red
Fancy Hotels
The miracle on 34th Street

Thought for the Day

If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.

-Unknown, Sears Roebuck and Co., Consumer's Guide, 1897