My sister-in-law, Tanya Turner, has started a blog. Both she and my brother Allen (aka, David) are enormously talented writers (when are you gonna get blogging, brother?). While I just pretend to be, Tanya is a home-grown North Carolinian. She puts her experience into the words she writes, each one full of the vitality that is Tanya.
I’ve added her to the blogroll and invite y’all to drop in with her and sit a spell. You might learn a thing or two!
Today is our sixth anniversary. Hard to believe six years have gone by. Every one has been more fun. We’re well on our way to fifty-eight plus years of happiness.
Happy anniversary, Kelly!
It was a mixed day for folks like me who value constitutional rights. What’s that? Don’t know what the Constitution is? Ah, you must be new around here.
See, the Constitution spells out what rights belong to government and what belong to the people. Lately, though, that beautiful document – the one on which stands our legal foundation as a country – has been ignored in the face of alleged “terra” threats. Nothing raises my hackles more. Continue reading
So my son wakes up from his nap today and we play his toy keyboard for entertainment. The keyboard plays “The Bear Went Over The Mountain,” a stupid children’s song in the public domain. Well, it’s not a song for stupid children. It’s a stupid song for children. You get my point. Anyhow, it goes like this:
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I thought it would be fun to remember New Orleans in the movies that were set there. A Streetcar Named Desire, Live And Let Die, Wild At Heart, JFK, The Big Easy: the IMDB has a list of over 100 films with New Orleans as the keyword. Which one is your favorite?
I read that the pipeline bringing gasoline from New Orleans to the Southeast has been fully restored. Thus, gas prices in the area served by the pipeline have begun to drop appreciably. Unfortunately, the pipeline from the RDU Airport area to North Raleigh is still out of commission. That’s why gas prices are twenty cents cheaper around the airport than they are ten miles farther north.
Officials have no word as to when this vital pipeline will be repaired. Perhaps when a few of those stations get busted for price gouging.
Last night, Tropical Depression Ophelia was named as it took a turn towards the north. I was getting my hopes up that finally we’d get some rain, but then the five-day forecast has it getting pushed farther out to sea. It’s tracking kind of crazy right now, so where it ends up is anyone’s guess. While I don’t wish a hurricane on anyone, it would be nice if it were to gently blow across the state, bringing much-needed rain with it.
As I was cleaning up the last few dishes from tonight’s dinner, I turned on the water at the kitchen sink. The water splashing out was refreshingly cool, a pleasant little oasis for these warm, dry days. My mind drifted from arctic scenes, snowfalls, and cool mountain waterfalls. After savoring those thoughts for a moment, it was time for warmer water. That’s when I turned on the cold water.
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I just read a transcript of Ray Nagin’s interview where he lashed out at the abysimal relief efforts for his city. If the relief efforts were turned over to his control, New Orleans would be on the mend already. The guy’s a real leader.
