It will be almost 40 degrees today, and everything is relaxing under the spell of warmth and bright sunshine.  I've been walking in the woods on a frozen trail, and it was so difficult to walk there, that I am only going to go on the road from now on.  My chicken's light bulb burned out, so I'll be replacing that, even though it's warm today.  I know the cold will return.  Usually, sometime in March, we have the annual Spring Thaw sunbathing party, sticking a lawn chair into a snowbank, putting on shorts and t-shirt, and drinking a beer to celebrate the apparent return of spring. 

I went to town yesterday, shopping for groceries at 3 different stores.  The cupboard was bare, and I even threw out, from the freezer, some stinky fish and other meat that had been passed on from other people.  They clean out their freezers, and pass the questionable stuff on to you, telling you it would be good for your dogs, etc.  No way would it be good for my dogs.  I don't want them to get sick, either.  I also took another bag of t-shirts and long-sleeved t-shirts to Good Will.  As you wash them, over time, they get wider and shorter.  If someone doesn't want them, they are turned into shop rags. 

There's been something happening to the grocery store shelves in the past two months or so.  My sister, who lives across the country from me, noticed it too.  There are empty spaces on the shelves where products used to be!  I thought maybe I was just coming at the wrong time of the week, but this is happening more and more.  Things get sold out, and they are not replaced right away.  This must be a sign of our troubled economy. 

Don't get me started!  What is the matter with the Republicans in Congress?  Don't they care at all about America?  They don't seem to care at all about the sufferings of the people...why should they?  They have all the money, and they want more and more tax cuts for themselves and their rich cronies in the corporations.  And probably, they have all their money offshore - they've become the global economic masters of the universe.  Remember that Hard Rock song I once loved - New World Order?  Yep, that's what I was dancing to then.  And even then, worrying about the real meaning of it.  My stomach churns and dances now whenever I see them on TV, obstructing the changes that we all voted for.

And Sarah Palin?  What is her problem with wolves in Alaska?  Why, in the name of everything that's holy, does she want to kill them, and with such cruelty?  Why?  Why?  Why?  Of course, there's the beluga whales, and the polar bears, too, that are in the way of her exploitative plans.