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Saturday Night Live Sketch

The Palin/Clinton intro for Saturday Nght Live last week was hilarious. Check it out: Palin/Clinton Intro.

The Mayor of Cozy Town

The other day Phil and I were sitting on the couch. I was leaning on him and when he moved to get up, I murmured something. When Phil came back he pulled me over next to him and said, "you are the mayor of cozy town."

What?!? Then he went on to say, "but I [Phil] am the president of Cozyopolis". I couldn't figure what he was on about. It was so funny. I started giving him grief. Cozy town!?! He flipped it back at me, saying I was the one who started it, saying, "I just got to cozy town."

I thought for a second, and then told him that when he got up I had said, "I just got cozy, now." Too funny. So now when ever we cuddle I say I am going to cozy town. I know it is corny, but I like the corniness. And it does sound a little like that episode of Seinfeld with Jerry and his girlfriend calling each other smoopy all the time, but Phil and I aren't going to cozy town in public so it is okay.

Training in progress

Phil has been training the cats. He is very good at it. He has the cats run to him out in the mud room and he has to touch each of them before they all run back in to get fed for dinner. The hope is that if they ever get out then he can call them (he says, "who wants to eat") and they'll come to him.



Phil has been training the cats. He is very good at it. He has the cats run to him out in the mud room and he has to touch each of them before they all run back in to get fed for dinner. The hope is that if they ever get out then he can call them (he says, "who wants to eat") and they'll come to him.

He also trains them to come for treats. He was having them preform--stand on their back legs, jump, etc. Now he has put the stools out in the middle of the room and has them jump up and sit on the stools for treats. At first only Io would do it and he (Io) would jump from stool to stool. Eventually they all got on board, first Pixel and then a few days later, Obsidian. Now if we just pull out the stools they each jump up on one and wait for a treat. It came to where we could not get them to get back off the stools (we didn't want to just dump them off), so now Phil saves a treat to lure them off.

Next I am hoping that we can find a hoop or something to get them to jump through!

Black bears and Blue berries

There are blue berries growing all over our yard. Last weekend I picked a bowl and this Saturday I picked another bowl full. And this is just the beginning. Most of the blueberries are on the road to being ripe--they look big and juicy and I think in a week or so they will be great. Right now they are rather tart (which I like), but I am told that they are actually best after the first frost--then they get plump and sweet (kind of like me, Naomi means "sweet").

This evening I was sitting downstairs and saw a black bear walk out from behind the house! He must have walked all along the back of the house (one of the places I pick the berries) and then he came out around the deck. He walked slowly across the yard, nibbling stuff along the way, and then headed into the woods. Io saw the bear and didn't know what to make of it. I called Phil to tell him and he told me to make sure to lock the doors--in case the bear wanted in :)

Of all my years in Seward, this is the first time seeing a bear in my yard. I am glad I was inside! I am thinking that when I pick those soon to be ripe berries at the bottom of my driveway I will park my car down there so that if a bear comes up I can hop inside. What an exciting event!

p.s. It has been raining all weekend--it started just as I came in from berry picking. Our water tank went from ~20 gallons to now ~800 gallons. Yea!

Not in love!

Contrary to what you might be hearing, not everyone is in love with Sarah Palin. Yes, I am happy she beat out our old governor, but when you are up against the worst governor the state has ever had, anyone else will do. Of course everyone in AK is saying great things about her--she just signed a bill to give us all $1200. Money talks!

Sarah is pro guns, pro drilling in Alaska, pro an evangelical agenda, against women's rights, against global warming, and against protecting the polar bears. It is cool to have a woman on the ticket and it is cool to have Alaska spotlighted, but she is so far from ready to lead this country. McCain himself still touts her role in the PTA as part of her political experience--I don't think that shows that she is a "real person," but that her resume needs padding. Plus, she was once a member of the Alaska Independence party whose goal was to get Alaska to secede from the U.S.A. And this person should be second to the presidency? Definitely not!

How much international experience can Sarah have when she just got her passport in 2007! I have been out of the country way more than she has. There is so much going on in world: Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia, Georgia, Cuba, China and India. What does she know outside of this state? Yes, we are the biggest state, but we are a pretty easy state--low population, low crime, etc. What major problems has she had to confront, except this investigation about her firing of the public safety commissioner because he wouldn't fire her ex brother-in -law?

I really don't understand why being a maverick is a good characteristic in a leader. Yes, maverick means being independent of thought, but it can also mean a rebel, unpredictable, hot headed. I want a leader who is intelligent, well spoken, quick on his feet, honest, level-headed and diplomatic.

The McCain/Palin ticket scares me.