The Vegans are Coming!

Well, well, well.  Winter.  About three inches of snow on the deck this morning.  Will have to do some shoveling here and at mom's.  Supposed to be up to six inches before the day is out.  The trees are lovely dressed in white.

I attended a wonderful supper party at Laura Beason's on Saturday.  Good food and good company.  Laura's condo is a fine place for a supper party.  Huge picture windows with a perfect view of the Juneau harbor.  For a few moments I thought I ought to buy a condo with a harbor view.  Fortunately the moment passed...

Otherwise it was a very quiet weekend.  Not much to report, I'm afraid.

Yesterday I took mom to the doc.  Her hands are seriously impaired with arthritis and it has begun to affect her ability to crochet.  This is a major quality of life issue...she loves to crochet.  The doc jabbed her hand with a shot of steroids.  Hopefully it will relieve the symptoms for a couple of months.  Her back bothers her too...

And today is doc day for auntie.  Last week she called and asked me to take her to the doctor that day.  No problem.  I picked her up and we zoomed to the clinic.  When we walked in the door the receptionist looked puzzled since the doctor was not "in" and no appointments had been scheduled.

Auntie pondered the situation.  Then the light came on.  "Dentist!  I have a dentist appointment today!"  exclaimed auntie.  OK.  No problem.  We motored out to the dentist.  All's well that ends well...

In other news, I see that the U.S. Senate passed sweeping food safety legislation today.  Not surprisingly it's less stringent than the House version but it sounds like it's still worthwhile.  Of course, there are detractors including everyone's favourite FOX News commentator as noted in today's Washington Post:

It drew fire from some tea party activists, who see it as government overreach. On his television program this month, talkshow host Glenn Beck suggested that the measure was a government ruse to raise the price of meat and convert more consumers to vegetarianism. 

Are vegans more or less dangerous than socialists in the FOX pantheon?  I would guess less dangerous...unless of course a vegan is gay.

And speaking of tea party activists, an amusing piece in Politico this morning on my ex-Governor.  It seems that she has been making fun of some iconic conservatives which is not sitting well in some quarters.

In the past month alone, she has mocked Ronald Reagan’s credentials, dismissed George H.W. and Barbara Bush as arrogant “blue bloods” and blamed George W. Bush for wrecking the economy.

When Sean Hannity asked Palin whether being in a reality show diminished her standing to be president, the former half-term governor mocked Reagan’s biography, dismissing him as “an actor.”

Sounding like every left-wing politician and media elitist who ridiculed Reagan for decades, Palin sneered that she could be president if the actor from “Bedtime for Bonzo” managed to do so. 

Which I guess just goes to prove the old adage that even a blind pig finds a truffle every now and then...