Candy is Candy

  I hope to high heavens that there are no postings of what to do with leftover Halloween candy.  Nobody needs a cake filled with leftover candy, or a melange of all kinds of miscellaneous candy sauteed together and served as a dessert. Except for chocolate pieces, don't even add candy to cookies.  If you don't eat candy in a reasonable time after Halloween, THROW IT AWAY.

Pressed Secretary

    The most benign comment I can make about Sara Sanders relates to her use of makeup.  Why so heavy on the mascara and eye shadow, and why a heavier application on her left eye. The mascara is so thickly applied it makes it hard to see in, and looks like she may not be able to see out.

I Remember

Battening

  In anticipation of the violent wind and water onslaught forecast for today, I brought my hanging spider plants, 3 of them, into the basement, dragged the metal lawn chair off the deck, and moved my car as far away as possible from tree branches.  What else is there to do?

Legend of the Locks of Love

    Why don' t people point their kids in another direction from donating their hair to Locks of Love.  Isn't it a given that almost everyone now prefers synthetic hair over  human hair. I'll bet most donated human hair isn't even used.

Paperwork Overload

Some of it.

The tick are still here.

Aftermath

This is the damage wrought by today's windstorm:

Something's bugging us :

Boxelder beetles by the thousands. Since they don't bite, and google says they live only one generation, the tendency is to co-exist until cold weather.  But they are despicable.

It might as well be spring..

Not so shrinking Violet and Late-blooming Dahlias, Schenevus version.

Delayed Dahlias

For the kids to enter in the Schaghticoke Fair, there must be 3 blooms.  Last year there were none and this year at Fair time there were exactly 3 in bloom.  They did win First Place and there were competitors.  But then nothing--until now. So I guess I'll try to remember to dig them up again this year, and see who survives who.

The Fall

I have one large tomato plant.  I thought the leaves were being stripped by chipmunks, but  today I see this tomato hornworm. I've seen them before, a long time ago, but this one is huge, it seems to me.