Our Rain Chances

 They are starting to look swell! Could have some heavy rain late this afternoon and overnight and into tomorrow morning. We sure do need it!

I remember old stuff I used to watch in the early days of PBS, like The Galloping Gourmet, Cooking Cheap, The frugal Gourmet, Laura Weber teaching folk guitar.  I remember watching the very first episodes of This Old House. And then there was The New Yankee Workshop, Crockett's Victory Garden, and of course, Mr. Rogers. I recall Lillias Yoga, as well. I seem to recall that PBS started as Educational TV, and I recall some guy in front of a blackboard teaching Algebra. Production values in the old days were not very good. Oh yeah, how could one forget Julia Child?

Maybe Rain

 Fairly good chances tomorrow and the next day, and it is not cold at all. Today looks to be really fine. I'm enjoying this. 

No Rain Yet

 It was cool and cloudy yesterday but it did not rain. Maybe this weekend, although the chances go up and down on a daily basis. It's still a crapshoot. 

Maybe Rain

 Cloudy today and a little rain is possible, but the best chances will be this weekend. I'm more than a little disgusted by this country's devotion to Israel. Why did we go into Iraq the first time? To placate Israel. Why would we attack Iran? To placate Israel. I hope attitudes around the world will change. I don't want to see anti-Semitism but I would like to see an upsurge in anti-Zionism. We should be able to understand that modern Israel's moral standing is no better than that of Hitler's Germany. Same cant: master race/chosen people. Not a dime's worth of difference. "Greater Israel" is just Hitlerian lebensraum all over again. Same justification for similar atrocities. It seems clear to me that Israel was a mistake, something misbegotten, and the world has suffered ever since. It began in hope and idealism. The hopes and ideals have been betrayed, just as they would be in any ordinary nation, subject to ordinary human flaws and moral rot. Nothing special. No hand of God. No trace of superiority. 

Super Bowl??

 I missed it. I did not even know it was on yesterday. I did not see even one microsecond of that boring shit, and not a single commercial. Doing good. Excellent. Above average temps continue and we are starting to get more rain chances. It will be quite warm today.