Every time I have to travel back to the midwest from whence I came, I am reminded of the many reasons why I no longer belong there.
First and foremost is the cold. Even in the beginning of summer, the temperature can drop into the 50s. That’s just too much like winter for me.
The second is the ultra-conservative mode of dress.
We plan to travel back to Ohio in a couple of weeks to see our grandchildren who still live there.
There are two things I make it a point to do when I’m in Ohio (my parents still live there part time and I have other children and grandchildren there). I make it a point to eat at White Castle, and I make it a point to eat at Skyline Chili.
Absentee ballots have hit the mailboxes locally, which means primary decision time in this year’s election cycle has begun.
Voters will have the opportunity to select a Republican candidate for both the District 2 and District 4 County Commission seats.
Incumbent George Neugent takes on challenger Danny Coll in District 2 while incumbent Mario Digennaro takes on challenger David Rice, former District 4 commissioner, in that venue.
Shhhhhhhh.
Keep it quiet.
Lobster mini-season is less than two weeks away.
Every year I tell myself that I won’t go out and get in the mess. I’ll wait until season opens on Aug. 6.
And every year I break that promise to myself and head out real early Wednesday trying to bag a limit before I come to work on deadline day.
It usually works.
But this year, I’m not going out during mini-season.
It doesn’t seem to be good enough that a judge has told our elected leadership in Tallahassee that their attempt to subvert a citizen’s initiative was ill-conceived and unworthy of a ballot position in November.
Now those very same elected leaders in Tallahassee are not only appealing the judge’s decision over their ill-conceived, unworthy attempt to subvert a citizen initiative, but they have filed a last-minute suit to have the actual citizen’s initiatives removed from the November ballot.
Many of you know that we are going through the process of adopting our four-year-old grandson because we have become his last, best hope for a normal life.
Yep, I hear my detractors out there whispering in the breeze that if I am anyone’s last, best hope, the world is surely doomed.
I ignore small minded people.
We are pleased to hear that County Administrator Roman Gastesi plans to continue moving forward on his proposal to make the county’s code enforcement department more responsive to the needs of the constituencies it serves.
For far too long, this county’s code enforcement department has been a figurative shoot-first, ask-questions-later operation.
Every so often I am reminded about the distinct difference in viewpoints between the male and female of our species.
There are rare occasions when we are not actually that far apart and can generally agree on a consensual course of action.
And then there are the times when one gender or the other simply capitulates for the good of the relationship.
And now that the soap box has been rudely pulled from under my feet, I will explain.
As the summer election season heats up, most of us will be inundated by messages from one candidate or another, extolling their own virtues and degrading the lack of virtue of their opponents.
Are we absolutely sure cats can’t read?
And are we absolutely sure cats can’t understand the nuances of human speech?
I’m not.
Continue reading ‘I believe those cats are learning to read my stuff’
As first our county planners and consultants, then our planning commissioners, then our county commissioners, work their way through the upcoming comprehensive land use plan update, one overriding background issue should step out of that shadow into the forefront.
Every policy decision we make from here forward should have as part of its thought process a discussion on the effect of sea level rise on that policy.
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