February

Cold here this morning. February is a tough month to live through with extreme temperature meanderings and forceful winds. About this time two years ago, we had some of the most beautiful warm and springlike weather I have seen. A lot of flowers were up and some were blooming, then along came mid-March and the coldest temps of winter for several days on. A lot of our flowers and shrubs have not recovered, especially the hosta and azalea. Most of the hostas will be ok, but the shrubs were a total loss. We raised them from babies.
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I do not like nor trust Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai. He is too damned lazy (or cute) to put his arms through his expensive coat sleeves and wears the headpiece of a dink! Besides, he is a puppet of Dick Cheney's and hopefully, Cheney is long gone!
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The Smoking Gun's Mug Shots of the Week!
Those Tennessee gals on page one have a wonderful sense of fashion!
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I see the city leaders in cahoots with the Johnson City Development Authority have allowed site preparation to proceed for the new apartment complex aimed at college students. It is located between E.T.S.U. and downtown, and these apartments, along with a bike path, are supposed to send these kids and their money to local merchants in a revived center city. The apartments are being built on one of the last pretty and green places in town, but as always JCDA gets its way.
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