yeah, I didn't like that stuff, but I'm choosing to ignore it. I've been successful so far.

ita, we went to pick apples just because. I grew up in a place with apple orchards and a cider press in town. I have a very strong memory of going to see the press operate and how it smelled and how the cider was amazing. I'd love for my kids to have those memories too but it's impossible here.

Oh this. Not that I have kids, but everything else.

Happy Belated to Cash, Matt, megan walker, and ita's dad!

Goddamn cats started in at six AM. OK, Loki started in. Playing push things off. Then attack the bed mice. Devi came in with pitiful whining. Pumpkin at least was distracted by the squirrels outside.

I held my ground, though sleeplessly, until 7:15. Now I need to go do my shopping.

Because of the 80 degree weather in March that caused everything to bloom before the bees were awake and about and then frosts after that killed the blossoms, we are having a massive apple shortage here.

Yeah, I understand the same thing hosed the cherry harvest in Traverse City this year. It was supposed to be a good year for wine grapes, though. Anyway, the apple issue reminds me of Frost's poem, Goodbye and Keep Cold: [link]

I feel like there should be an LAista fall festival f2f. It'd be so much fun! Problem is I'm too fried and too busy to set it up, and so is everyone else as I well know. sigh. When did we all get so busy?

I think I just won a FB fight. If the other guy starts sputtering about how she's being misunderstood and then accuses me of changing the subject and derailing the discussion, and then flounces off in a huff, it means I won, right? Because it sure feels like a win.

Because of the 80 degree weather in March that caused everything to bloom before the bees were awake and about and then frosts after that killed the blossoms, we are having a massive apple shortage here. It sucks.

Yeah. My grandmother owns an orchard (it was my grandfather's retirement project and she's kept it going since he passed) and she normally has a crop of 300 to 400 bushel. This year it was 80, and the quality of that 80 is very poor. She normally sells apples from the end of September until early-to-mid November. She's already closed for the year as of last weekend.

Serial-

I really should know better. I made a post to Facebook last night asking my friends voting for Romney why they felt he would do a better job than Bush, considering he's hired most of the same advisors and says he pretty much wants to do everything Bush did. I also asked if there were things Romney was going to do different (besides vague talk of closing loopholes and cutting PBS funding).

So far, only one Romney supporter responded and he doesn't understand why I think Bush's policies failed and that he votes Republican because Democratic policies reward laziness and punish success. Ugh.

The sad thing is that many Republicans do honestly believe that.