Month: October 2022

I’ll admit that, as I head into my dotage, there’s less and less appeal for Halloween.  No, I don’t dress up any more.  Haven’t for years, in fact.  We don’t even decorate much.  For my slightly eccentric neighbor, this is the high point of her year.  She has elaborate costumes and hangs all kinds of spider webs and puts up lighting to entertain the visiting gremlins.  For us, the excitement has long gone.  It’s just a reminder that I should have put all the patio furniture away for the winter.

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The time has come to direct my gardening efforts indoors for the winter, and it helps to take my mind off the upcoming election.  I could pretty much recite the political advertising from memory. So, we’ll turn to my plants, a much happier topic.  

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Here we are, firmly in the Fall of Our Discontent.  Food and energy costs up, and predictions of winter heating getting, well, not good.  The midterm elections and campaigning aren’t helping with our anxiety and tension either.  And then, there are our sports teams . . . . . .

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