Cold killer, total joke

As expected the near freezing temps Tuesday night did a number on our landscape once again killing/damaging a ton of things on our property.  The bananas, that have ZERO cold tolerance once again walked the plank.  Of course they will grow back, just in time to get killed again next year.  The poinsettia, which ironically is a symbol of the cold holiday season actually has very poor tolerance of cold weather, they also took a beating.  The big and bushy areca palms also were damaged meaning I will have the unfun job of cutting those back in the future.

Well anyway, after surveying the damage last night I was pissed off.  I am sick and tired of our stuff getting smoked by a freeze each of the last 3 or 4 years (used to not happen at all when we first moved out here)  I went online and bought a 300 foot long by 5 foot wide roll of frost cloth.  That should give us more than enough to cover anything we deem important for years to come.  It didn’t cost that much, it’s something I should have done after the first year of the freeze.

The republican presidential race is a complete and utter joke.  The way almost every candidate has spent time as the “front runner” for a period of a week or two is unlike anything I have ever seen before in something as important as a choice for President.  The fact that Rick Santorum is now taking his turn as one of the favorites just puts an exclamation point on just how whacky this has all become.

Santorum is an evangelical zealot whom was so disliked in his home state of Pennsylvania as an incumbent that he only received 18% of the vote when they kicked his ass out the door.  The last thing we need is another nut job that tells us he makes his decisions based on what God tells him to do.  Both of the Rick’s in this race are utter and total dicks in my opinion.

John Stewart summarizes my feelings in a very funny way here.