Each year at this time, I always head for the nearest bookstore just so I can get a new calendar for the upcoming new year. As is my custom and duty every year, I have to transfer some important dates from the previous calendar to the new one.

Hey, somebody's got to keep up with birthdays of a few important (female) co-workers.

But there are other dates worth remembering, like when the local fire department will be doing their annual inspection....

By now, you've hopefully finished your Thanksgiving leftovers. That's all done? Good. Now comes the big stuff.

For me, my Christmas tree is so small that it only takes one minute to take from my closet and place upon my CD cabinet. For a lot of you others, however, yours is much larger and has room for many decorations. It also will take longer for you to set it up and, when everything's done, take it down. Christmas time is definitely upon us....

I have been reworking a poem I wrote and posted some years ago.

Eden Remembered

Why do we call it "Fall"?
Perhaps because of children falling,
into piles of scarlet and gold or
Summer herself, falling like ancient Rome.

Mother called the bruised apples
Beneath the trees, "drops".
She hurried to use them before they spoiled.
They were recycled into sauce, or pies, or cakes.

"Don't...

Florida climate change the last 100 years

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Thank God, the President is standing firm on border chaos. Swarms of thousands of illegal aliens charging the US border, via Tijuana! We need to have concertina wire, mine fields, backed by machines guns a hundred yards deeper in for defense in depth.

The President, as-usual, is right: go home to Central America, solve your own problems. Pick up weapons, solve...