Good day to you on a cloudy, windy and, sporadically, rainy Sunday.  I am not complaining because we still need moisture.  The temperatures are moderate and seasonal so the tender plants still in the garden should be fine.  The mums are finally blooming--they do look pretty.

Words simply fail me on this one.  This bastard deserves considerably more punishment than he got.

I guess someone had to come up with this notion given our commercial culture.  I have been complaining for years about the 'holiday' creep' where Halloween goods appeared before the first day of school, Christmas goods before Halloween and Thanksgiving seemed to disappear entirely.  Happy OctoNovemCember, everyone.  (Bah Humbug.)