Taking a Break

I'm going to take a break from blogging for a while. Thank you, readers, for your faithful interest. I may (probably) come back just to post pictures of baby plants or baby goats. Who knows?


Sincerely,
Karisa

Frogs in Warm Water: Part II

For those who did not keep up with the TV Converter Box situation here is a short update:

They ran out of coupons. I guess too many people wanted that rebate, after all. By the way, thank you to all who participated, on behalf of myself and my grand kids. We'll be sure to think of you when tax season rolls around.

Here's an excerpt from an article I found, talking about the need for more funding:

I found some of the details regarding the TV Converter Box Program in the latest economic recovery bill, officially known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Title III, section 47 of the bill calls for $650,000,000 worth of taxpayer dollars to fund cost associated with the converter box coupon program, which will be made available until September 30, 2009.


I think I just read that part of the proposed economic recovery plan is to spend my money to help keep televisions running.

Why do I feel strongly about this? I don't know.

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Driving Mr. Danny

Say, Danny, what's that man putting on you?

Pulling a chain.

Let's try something a little more substantial.

Piece of cake!

Dan was born to drive.

Kimbel and Cricket join for the ride to the woods.

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Lovely evening walk...

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on a beautiful Sunday in January.

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Good job, Danny!

Changes

"Why do people have to grow up and marry, change?"



"I wish I could just hold on to these days forever. I have a feeling things will never be the same again, will they?"



Anne Shirley asks these questions toward the beginning of the Green Gables Sequel. Anne's kindred spirit, Diana, is preparing for her wedding and Anne feels lost in the whirlwind.

The first time I watched this scene I thought Anne was being sentimental and irrational. Gilbert certainly thought so. Everyone grows up and changes. Marriage is a fact of life and certainly an occasion for celebration. However, this week when my own Diana married I realized that Anne's words seemed much more rational to me. I join in Anne's suspicion of change but I also know that change will continue until the very end when we experience the last, best change of all.

Marriage is ultimately a happy change and I couldn't have picked a better match for my friend if I had hired Emma Woodhouse for the job. (Ha.)



Congratulations, kindred spirit. And welcome, new husband, new friend.

Frogs in warm water: Part I

I was in the car a few days ago when I heard a peculiar radio advertisement. The Government is offering a $40.00 rebate for anyone who needs a digital converter box for their old television. You can actually get two $40.00 rebates, in case you have more than one T.V. in your house. Yeah, apparently the old analog televisions are on their way out and our prodigious Big Brother wants to be sure no citizen misses a single episode of Gossip Girl.


Say, what?

Why should the Government care if we have television or not? Where is the Government even getting the money to fund this? The last time I checked our national debt was at about...err...$10,589,885,066,950 and counting. Doesn't this seem a little Orwellian?

If the Government offering to help keep your television playing doesn't motivate you to cut the cables or chuck the bunny ears into the dumpster, I'm sorry.

When I drive past a house at night and see the flashing of electric blue light through the windows I can't help but think, "education program initiated, sir. Beginning download sequence in five, four, three..."

Just to be clear, I don't think that technology came from Satan. I enjoy good movies. Heck, I might even sit down with you to watch the nightly news if you happen to have it on. Just don't be surprised if I put on my tinfoil hat to block the brain penetrating stupi-rays that emanate from your television. And for Pete's sake (whoever he is), don't flatter yourself for being thrifty if you send in your digital converter box coupons and get a rebate.

Just add your $80.00 to the current $10,589,885,066,950 and hope that your great-great grandkids will understand.

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Here's the thing #2 and #3

I read Laurie's post about botched haircuts and had to laugh. I know exactly what she's talking about.

I had to add some of my own:


#2
If your stylist brags about how she butchers the hair of clients that annoy her...maybe you shouldn't just sit there quietly and pray. Maybe you ought to jump out of the chair and run like mad.

That is what I learned after I got home and saw my hair was a whole two inches shorter on one side of my head.


#3

If your stylist asks you if you want something whacky she probably does not mean 'fashionable' or 'ahead of the curve'. She probably really does mean whack-y.

I had to wear a bag over my head for two weeks.




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Oh, but Adams is dead so he's out of touch with present issues

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - John Quincy Adams

Let's all vote for McCain, the man who never once voted for Ron Paul's Sanctity of Life Act so that while the silent Holocaust continues to rage (conveniently) out of sight, we can sleep with peace of mind.



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