Sarah Palin may be dumb as a doornail, but she’s giving Saturday Night Live some great material:
Of course, the debates were worth a laugh or two as well:
Nick convinced me to ride the RCR team ride today on the tandem. I brought the camera and tried to take a few pictures. We were rolling pretty fast for most of the ride though, so it wasn’t easy.
CNN is reporting that a Bush appointee actually did something right for once. Attorney General Mukasey sent a stinging message to the Bureau of Immigration Affairs, saying its ruling against granting asylum to a woman who has undergone FGM is flawed. (You might recall that I wrote about this topic in the spring for my legal writing class.)
Read Mukasey’s full letter to the court.
Vespa keeps Nick company as he relaxes on the couch, reading about why my bread has been turning out so deliciously crusty and soft lately (the most recent loaf not withstanding).
Yesterday represented the first time in six years that we harvested the plums in the rain. We picked 65.2 pounds yesterday, and Nick will finish off the job today.
The plums are still a little on the green side this year, owing to the cool summer we had, but we felt that getting them off the trees now would serve us better than letting the squirrels throw half-eaten plums on the ground to rot. Let the plum-processing begin!
Update: Nick finished picking all the plums we could reach. (Some are too hard to get at, so we’ve left them for the squirrels.) Total harvest for 2008 is 73.2 pounds - down a little from years past, but not bad!