Rain fell against my windshield for the entirety of the 2-hour drive from Des Moines Sunday night. We need rain.
The next day, on my walk along the lake shore trail, it was clear the Lake Macbride Watershed absorbed all of the rain without any extra. The culvert that empties from the watershed into the lake continued to be bone dry.
On Tuesday there was a brief thunderstorm with powerful winds. The optimist in me believes the drought has broken. The ten-day forecast shows the potential for some additional rain on Saturday. Fingers crossed!
Today I picked enough apples to get started on the final rounds of processing. The three crates will be sorted into juicers, fresh eaters, and saucers. There are enough here to finish the number of quart jars of sauce we wanted and get started on the rest of the apple cider vinegar. I plan to make an apple crisp for dessert from some of them. There are worse retirement lives to live than mine.
The big news from Washington D.C. was that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, not having enough votes to pursue formal impeachment of President Biden, created an ad hoc “impeachment inquiry” anyway. McCarthy said the probe will be led by House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) in coordination with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OHIO) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO), who have been leading the investigations into Hunter Biden and his father. The reason there are not enough votes to create a formal impeachment inquiry is that Republicans can’t get the goods on the president. They have already been investigating and found no evidence of any wrong-doing.
My congresswoman, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, was quick to jump on the impeachment inquiry band wagon, ignoring what she should be working on — the end of month deadline to fund the government — to give a one-minute speech with a chart titled, “The Bidens’ Influence Peddling Timeline.” Her opponent, Christina Bohannan, was quick to fund raise off the speech, saying in part,
In a few weeks, these extreme Republicans are planning to shut down the government, meaning seniors may not get their Social Security checks, veterans may lose healthcare, our troops may not get paid, and on and on. Iowans’ everyday lives will be severely affected by her political gamesmanship. We must inform our voters of what Miller-Meeks is really up to in Washington.
Email from Christina Bohannan for Congress, Sept. 12, 2023.
What is Miller-Meeks really up to in Washington? Providing cover for the 45th president. For the first 234 years of the nation’s history, no American president or former president had ever been indicted. That changed with Donald J. Trump.
At least there has been rain.
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