No Clothes!

A silver dawn with not a cloud in sight. Time to water the plants and make a quick inventory of the garden. Yes, all is well at this early hour.

The news from the White House just gets better every day. With Wolfowitz now gone; the ideal way to start the new week would be for Gonzo to resign on Monday…Oh, be still, my heart! If only he would! I think the public is finally beginning to see that the Emperor has no clothes on.

And last night we had dinner with a group of friend’s; turkey with all of the fixings. Yes, I know it’s not Thanksgiving but there was bird in someone’s freezer and we had the time, so why not?

After dinner, we sat around the table and listened as Darlene told us the story of William Alexander Morgan. Her story; in 1946 she was traveling across the country by train, from Washington DC to Orland. The war was over and she was leaving her job at the Patent Office to marry a local boy in Orland. And on the long trip west she met Mr. Morgan. A whirlwind romance ensued and they got off the train in Reno, made a trip south to Minden (where the courthouse was still open) and were married that night. Mr. Morgan, who was in the Army at the time, then shipped out to Japan for occupation duty. She never saw him again and 18 months later, she had the marriage annulled after finding out about his girlfriend in Japan. Oops!

Anyway, she suggested that we Google his name and here’s part of the story. There was even a second wife, a snake charmer from Ohio. Honest! That’s what we were told. Fascinating stuff! This morning, Darlene, who is 80+ years old and blind, will be participating in the Orland parade that leads to the county fair. She tells us she will be wearing overalls, a straw hat, some “BillyBob” teeth and will be trying to play a kazoo. Handicapped? No, that's not in Darlene's vocabulary.