Though this clip is incredibly funny it does stress an important issue: voting for the right person.
Last week news reports came out about undecided women voters jumping to McCain because of Sarah Palin. Is that the right reason?
I got to thinking; is politics anymore just a popularity contest?
I get nervous when people say they're voting for so-and-so just because they're so-and-so or are of the same party affiliation. And that's their reason.
What happened to the platform of the polititians? Doesn't that matter any more?
Then again, you can't find a truly honest polititian out there so does their platform even matter?
Trying to make this as non-partisan as I can, all I ask of you is to vote for the right person for the right reason.
Not soley because he's Republican or Democrat.
Not because he's black or he has a woman as his running mate.
Vote for the right person for the right reason.
BUT! I do have news to report! After only a week we have grass growing!!!
The Dingo is a personal bobcat, so to speak, that has many useful attachments. For instance, The Dingo and The Bucket. The night before Steve rented a sod cutter which probably cut our work time in half to scrape off the old sod.
This was my personal favorite; the Dingo and Hydraulic Tiller. Doesn't it look mean??? I easily busted through packed-down clay soil. In fact I killed the engine numerous times because I went too deep.
This was the start of Saturday morning. The front and side yard had been completely stripped by moi. Steve tried his hand at The Dingo but relinquished when he discovered I was actually better at obtaining a full bucket-load of sod for the trailer. This picture also shows where I scraped off the bit of a hill so Steve could start the timber wall. We had talked about it before and since we had the machinery, might as well do it!
Here's Steve unloading the timbers in the fabulous hydraulic dump trailer. This dump trailer came in handy when it was time to haul off the loads of sod to the recycling center. All Stevie had to do was push a button and voila! Empty trailer!!
This is after I tilled up the wall area and am pushing the loose dirt away from Steve's work area. Like buttuh!!
My mom came over Saturday to help; first to watch the girls while we returned the Dingo and all its acoutraments then to get some straw. After Mallory went down for her morning nap she came out to help rake out the dirt. I used the broascast spreader for the seed then she and Jenna shook out straw.
This is wall as of Sunday. We didn't do a thing to the yard Sunday. The wall doesn't look like much but it's only four courses at its tallest. Now we just have to wait and see if the seed sprouts in the next week or so.....
Once again, a bit late in this post as I just found this out Tuesday.
This will be a hole that no one will be able to fill. Just like James Earl Jones, Don LaFontaine's iconic voice has be etched into everyone's brain.
He will be greatly missed.
As I begin to wrap up Season Two here on the homestead and look back I didn't get as much done this season as I had hoped but the cool and incredibly violent and wet spring really set me back. Steve and I were able to get the play area done before summer really set in.
Next on the tour is the vegetable garden. All I was able to plant were some herbs and pumpkins. I've never grown pumpkins before and there are, surprisingly, only TWO plants growning. I've counted at least 10 basketball-sized pumpkins. 
And you can also see the leaves starting to fade and the pumpkins starting to turn orange. Perhaps next year I'll only plant one.....
Even though they look horrible and I've been watering them they still have their leaves so I'm hopeful they'll bounce back next year. Perhaps I should have waited until they went dormant on their own.....
Look at how it beads up!!
