Day: October 16, 2013

Thanks goodness.  All 4 senators from Maryland and Virginia voted in favor.   We could be right back where we just came from in three months.

Channel 4 NBC reported that it could take as long as 6 months for this area to recover from the closure since October 1.

It is unsure when the federal employees will get their paychecks.  It depends on the agency when employees go back to work.

The zoo will open Friday.  The Smithsonian museums will open tomorrow.

Tomorrow we can discuss who was naughty and who was nice.

We should never get this close to the brink.

 

 

 

For the past week or so concerned Americans have been signing petitions in Starbucks to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling. The petitions also call for a bipartisan budget. The petition drive was so popular that people were copying blank sheets and bringing them back in to add to the pile.

 

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Where are the candles hiding?  Are the  stems carved wax?

Where is the best place to buy pumpkins this year?  You might see a low price but then discover your pumpkin weighs 15-20  pounds.

It would seem a shame to carve up these pumpkins.  We will just let them be.