I really don't have much to say other than I have lost my
momentum for raking leaves by staying on the computer.
Our house is situated in a spot that is like a funnel. All
the leaves blow into our yard and the one next door. I
picked up a trash bag full yesterday and it wasn't even
a drop in the bucket. It should be in the seventies today,
which is ideal for the job.

I have been thinking about regional speech quite a lot and
it is my hope that some of it will be preserved as it adds
a lot of color to our language. "All hat and no cowboy"
is a favorite of mine. So is "that dog won't hunt".

Humor me and let's compare.

Have you been inundated with junk mail? I feel sorry for
our postman. I think charities are selling their lists
because I keep getting more and more from places that I
never heard of. For example, I donate to guiding eyes for
the blind and get calendars from 6 or 8 more sites. The
ones that tear me up are the sites trying to maintain the
big cats. It takes so much to feed them. At the same time
I only donate so much money and there is not enough to go
around the animal rescue places. I wish they wouldn't
send tee shirts, Christmas cards or nickels to me. It is
definitely a misuse of their funds.

Back to language...let's change the F word to Swive. It
was good enough for Chaucer and it is good enough for me.