{"id":2721,"date":"2013-04-22T11:05:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T17:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:00:05","slug":"all-white-thats-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/all-white-thats-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"All White That’s Enough!"},"content":{"rendered":"

GOING..<\/p>\n

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\u00a0GOING..<\/p>\n

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GONE…..SORT OF..<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 The trillions of twigs that remain still need to be raked up and hauled away. I was just about to call the guy back to finish the job (which he couldn\u2019t do then because of snow on the ground) but I better wait BECAUSE IT\u2019S SNOWING AGAIN!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Like a January blizzard, it\u2019s coming down sideways riding along on 30 mile an hour gusts of wind. High today and tomorrow..mid 30\u2019s. Normal high this time of year; low 60\u2019s.\u00a0 I don\u2019t ever recall a winter so determined to overstay its welcome. I had high hopes Easter weekend when it was nice enough for a family outing at the Falls. Jackets replaced parkas. The sun felt warm on the face, cardinals were holding concerts in the trees and golf courses were opening. Then, winter gave us one of those slow-motion Rocky Balboa punches to the face, You know..so hard that the sweat goes flying and your jaw becomes distorted.\u00a0 That was just the early rounds; we’ve been getting pummeled ever since. Some have thrown in the towel and got the hell out of town seeking warmth and sanity in places far south from here with Spanish names. Good for you. We\u2019re all jealous but please stop posting pictures of your feet resting upon soft white sands pointing toward the warm emerald waters of some distant ocean. We\u2019re not in the mood. We are cranky and, even though the extended forecast again shows gradually warming temperatures this week, we \u00a0have heard those ducks fart in the water before. Optimistic forecasts from well meaning meteorologists \u00a0get trumped by some big low pressure system that forms up in Canada and descends with a fury to us unsuspecting souls across the border. We have become calloused and tend to believe\u00a0that forecasters may actually be intentionally flinging folly \u00a0in order to keep us from knowing the truth; that another savage storm is heading our way..knowing that such news will send many, ravaged with cabin fever,\u00a0off the deep end\u00a0charging into the streets screaming and scaring the children.\u00a0\u00a0 Poor Linda is almost beyond consoling. Her normally affable attitude and Pollyanna personality has descended into a state of frustration and disappointment. Like many of you, she\u2019s been so anxious to be outside; to get her hands in the dirt planting flowers and enjoying a nice glass of wine on our deck. It also can\u2019t be easy for her to be stuck in perpetuial close proximity\u00a0with me all the time when normally I\u2019d be out of the house and her hair playing golf a couple days a week by now.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m glad they got the 2nd<\/sup> Boston bombing suspect ..and they got him alive.. but I\u2019m still not clear on the circumstances surrounding his capture inside a covered boat in some guy\u2019s backyard. Police say they opened fire after hearing a shot come from the boat. Luckily, I guess, the suspect survived and was pulled out an hour later and sent to the hospital for treatment of two wounds; one to the leg (believed to have been from the shootout the night before) and another to the mouth and throat.<\/p>\n

\"Dzhokhar<\/a>

Dzhokhar Tsarnaey being taken into custody.<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s that throat wound, which we\u2019re not hearing much about, that has led some..including me..to wonder if the shot from the boat, which led to the volley by police, was actually Tsarnaey lifting the cover up and firing at his pursuers or a botched attempt to commit suicide. \u00a0Don\u2019t get me wrong, law enforcement officers..thousands of them..deserve credit for bringing these two evil brothers down but do they deserve praise for taking Dzhokhar alive..or were they just lucky that none of their bullets, which, according to its owner, left his boat looking like Swiss cheese, found their mark? \u00a0Does it matter? Yeah, I think it does; full disclosure and all that.<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s stopped snowing for now. Better check and see if I have enough gas for the snowblower..not just for today but this weekend when it\u2019s supposed to hit 70.<\/p>\n

P.S.\u00a0Here\u2019s an interesting and timely tidbit from the Keloland memory banks:\u00a0\u00a0Keloland founder, Joe L. Floyd was good friends with Wisconsin Senator, Gaylord Nelson.\u00a0In 1969 the two of them were in Florida together when Nelson mentioned his deep concerns about environmental issues facing America. Nelson said he wanted to organize some major event to call attention to the worsening condition. He had the idea but was stuck for a catchy title.\u00a0That\u2019s when Joe Floyd said, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you just call it Earth Day?\u201d\u00a0And that\u2019s what Nelson did..promoting it from his Senate office before the concept caught on nationally. Now, as the late great Paul Harvey used to say,\u00a0you know the rest of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOING.. \u00a0 \u00a0GOING.. GONE…..SORT OF.. \u00a0 The trillions of twigs that remain still need to be raked up and hauled away. I was just about to call the guy back to finish the job (which he couldn\u2019t do then because of snow on the ground) but I better wait BECAUSE IT\u2019S SNOWING AGAIN!\u00a0\u00a0 Like a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lund-at-large","category-60","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11664,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions\/11664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}