Yesterday a large flock of pelicans arrived on the lake. It’s a sign spring is coming.
While checking the mail, someone I’ve known since we moved here in 1993 was walking their dog. We had a discussion about the weather and about my garden which is one of the largest in the area. Our consensus of two was it is going to freeze again. It is too early to start digging garden plots.
In my fourth week of indoor seed planting, things seem to be going well. Most seeds have sprouted on schedule, and despite growing indoors, are developing in a way that will make for sound seedlings. Soon it will be time to assemble the portable greenhouse and move some outside.
There was a Red Flag Warning on Sunday, which means a risk of wildfires. I will delay brush burning until the warning ends.
On Saturday I went to the public library and bought three books at their used book sale. I began reading the Pete Souza book as soon as I got home and couldn’t put it down until I turned all the pages. It is incomprehensible we went from Obama as depicted in these photos to Trump. I began to tear up a couple times while reading it. I am usually more reserved.
This led me to thinking about the presidents during my lifetime and this brief rating:
- Truman: Don’t recall as president.
- Eisenhower: Okay for a Republican/Interstate Highway System
- Kennedy: Favorable
- LBJ: Vietnam/Voting rights/Medicare
- Nixon: OMG!
- Ford: Not Nixon
- Carter: Malaise/Camp Davis Accords
- Reagan: JFC!
- George Bush: Reagan-lite
- Clinton: +/- Neocon
- George W. Bush: Bad, very bad
- Obama: My president
- Trump: Nightmare/insurrectionist
- Biden: What I expect from a Democrat
Spring is two weeks away and the days tick by much faster than I’d like. By my count, I can expect 14 more springs during my lifetime. I plan to find enjoyment in each of them. Hopefully pelicans will be a part of them.
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