Pawprints From Space

The wind has picked up blowing the remaining fallen leaves passed the windows. Birds are in the trees being all "twittapated" and the cats have their noses pressed to the windows in rapt attention. The three season porch (not aptly named it is more of a two and a half season porch really) is getting warmer in the afternoons causing rolling in sunbeams, "talking" to the birds, and crying to get outside. Honey for example is pawing at the windows and doors (especially when the dog next door is in view) and whining. Rumba keeps trying to make a break for any open door she sees. Bonsai doesn't seem to much care so long as there is sunbeam to bask in and Lucky, well she would like to bask in the sun but the young ones keep pouncing on her to coax her into playing which only serves to make her dash for the basement. The snow comes and goes, can't seem to decide if winter is done yet or not. The first day of Spring (vernal equinox) is a little less than two weeks...

While most of the attention is on Wisconsin, things continue to be odd at the statehouse in Columbus Ohio. Like Wisconsin, Ohio has a newly elected Republican governor. Both houses of the state legislature are also not Republican controlled. This is not necessarily a bad thing. And yes, I am trying to be open minded since this is what we have to work with ... at least until the next election. And even though I didn't vote for these people and apparently do not see anything close to eye to eye with them, not every Republican is by definition a bad person. Hell, there are plenty of Democrats and Independents I disagree with too! Mostly I choose to ignore the party label. However I have noticed that most of the things I disagree with tend to have a Republican label.  Now, when one watches Mr. Kasich make a speech one has to wonder if he is all right. He bobs, he weaves, he doesn't look at the camera. He rants, he raves, if you look closely you can probably see spittle flying. He...