FALLING RAIN

We're are at home again today. Even though our travel trailer is at the Spaulding Lake Campground, we decided to come home due to rainy weather, AGAIN. We began our month of camping on June 10th. We left for OHIO on the 11th for a graduation party. Mary Ellen's grand-niece is headed to Dayton University. We also visited my two sisters and of course stayed with my sister-in-law, Carol. Since we've returned its rained almost every day. I don't know about you, but sitting inside a camper with the rain coming down brings on 'cabin fever' quickly.

Mary Ellen had a slight accident last Wednesday. While getting dressed alongside our bed, she tripped on a drawer that was open and covered with the bedspread, which made the drawer invisible. She fell backwards and hit her left lower back. She has had a nasty pain in her back ever since. There is no bruising and appears not to involve the kidney. It could be a broken rib, but she doesn't see any point in going to a doctor since they don't do anything for a broken rib.

The rest of this week is supposed to be dry. We'll head back to the campground tomorrow unless the weather changes. I should mention we live only 20 miles away. So coming home every few days is no big deal.

How about that wonderful, upstanding young ex governor of IL. Old Blago bit the dust today. With 17 out of 20 charges in the guilty column, he could get 300 years behind bars. How ridiculous is that. The press is saying he may get 7 to 9 years. Why attach all those years when there is no way anyone will ever be sentenced to anywhere near that many. Blago said in a post trial interview that he 'just couldn't understand how this could happen'. Didn't he hear his own tapes? Guess not.

Speaking of politics, I think Gingrich has shot himself in the foot once too often. That leaves Romney, Bachmann, Pawlenty, Cain and perhaps a few others. As things stand today, anyone of these people would beat Obama. Of course that's as of NOW. All or any of the aforementioned has plenty of time to shoot themselves in both feet. Hopefully it's Obama who goes 'limping' into the voting booth on election day.

Mary Ellen and I are looking forward to our "summer reunion" with our friends we winter with in Florida. We're meeting at a campground in Champaign, IL on July 11th. We'll spend a few days trying to remember what we did this past winter. Of course there will be a few lies and other assorted BS. I can hardly wait...I'll be back in my element.