Middle of the Road
18-Dec-14 -8C/17.6F. Cold outside or should I say cool? This sparrow made the best of it by letting the sun hit his back. The reason I am showing this less than exotic creature is because I fell in love with the light in this scene, especially the way the sun lit up the dried out needles of the cedar. Also, what I thought was kind of neat is that you can actually see the sparrow’s breath off to the right of his beak.
Off to something completely different. Alberta, Land of the Wild Rose, the official flower. And as well the official opposition party in the Legislature. Well, used to be. Nine of their fourteen remaining members, including the leader, just crossed the floor to join the ruling “Progressive” Conservatives. Even though I would have never voted for the ultraconservative Wild Rose group, they did provide an essential service in a democracy, such as an effective and very vocal opposition. And how would you feel as a voter who voted for one of these guys (non-gendered term) ? And the justifications coming out of their mouths, I should be as good at writing as these guys are at flapping their mouths. Apparently anything can be justified, even the murder of 148 people, most of them children in Pakistan. Do I equate the two, no, not really, just saying ...
And off to my favorite topic, gas prices and their relationship to quality. They have been dropping at dizzying rates and I for one was glad to be able to still be able to fill my tank at 89.9 cents where I already began to suspect the quality of the product and now we are at 80.9 cents. I am going to have to postpone any major trips until the price rises again because I suspect I will be doing major damage to my vehicle gassing up at these prices. We all know by now that quality is directly related to price, see Under the Boardwalk .
What the heck is this world coming to? But there is actually a bit of good news on the horizon and that is the pending normalization of relations between the States and Cuba. I will now be able to fly to Cuba (Canadians were able to do this before, so wait for it) and buy a really old car in Cuba, transport it to (here it is) the States and drive it all the way in the Middle of the Road to Canada unmolested by American customs. Isn’t that great? I think my Christmas wishes are coming true. I am not sure how my wife feels about trying to store another clunker in the garage. Hmmm …
Middle of the Road – The Pretenders
Middle of the Road
18-Dec-14 -8C/17.6F. Cold outside or should I say cool? This sparrow made the best of it by letting the sun hit his back. The reason I am showing this less than exotic creature is because I fell in love with the light in this scene, especially the way the sun lit up the dried out needles of the cedar. Also, what I thought was kind of neat is that you can actually see the sparrow’s breath off to the right of his beak.
Off to something completely different. Alberta, Land of the Wild Rose, the official flower. And as well the official opposition party in the Legislature. Well, used to be. Nine of their fourteen remaining members, including the leader, just crossed the floor to join the ruling “Progressive” Conservatives. Even though I would have never voted for the ultraconservative Wild Rose group, they did provide an essential service in a democracy, such as an effective and very vocal opposition. And how would you feel as a voter who voted for one of these guys (non-gendered term) ? And the justifications coming out of their mouths, I should be as good at writing as these guys are at flapping their mouths. Apparently anything can be justified, even the murder of 148 people, most of them children in Pakistan. Do I equate the two, no, not really, just saying ...
And off to my favorite topic, gas prices and their relationship to quality. They have been dropping at dizzying rates and I for one was glad to be able to still be able to fill my tank at 89.9 cents where I already began to suspect the quality of the product and now we are at 80.9 cents. I am going to have to postpone any major trips until the price rises again because I suspect I will be doing major damage to my vehicle gassing up at these prices. We all know by now that quality is directly related to price, see Under the Boardwalk .
What the heck is this world coming to? But there is actually a bit of good news on the horizon and that is the pending normalization of relations between the States and Cuba. I will now be able to fly to Cuba (Canadians were able to do this before, so wait for it) and buy a really old car in Cuba, transport it to (here it is) the States and drive it all the way in the Middle of the Road to Canada unmolested by American customs. Isn’t that great? I think my Christmas wishes are coming true. I am not sure how my wife feels about trying to store another clunker in the garage. Hmmm …
Middle of the Road – The Pretenders