Empty boxes are gone from living room. My beautiful favorite rug is cleaned and will arrive tomorrow. Thanks be that nobody else wanted it--not even as a gift. Having a nice, big dog bite out of the end will do that for a rug. "Ewww....what happened??"The rug man said "It's been repaired, and that's how it got the hole." Sorry, rug man. I have a picture, somewhere, of the very dog--a golden retriever with a low tolerance for inactivity. When his Georgetown masters left him alone a bit too often, he started gnawing on the rug.
Thus, I got the rug with the bite out of it at a neighborhood moving sale for a song--"How High the Moon"--and a dance--"The Masochism Tango." Surely you remember that ballad by Tom Lehrer?
I know too wellYes, I paid too much, but I couldn't help myself. It's got flowers on it. And the rug man told me the pattern is called "French flowers." Cool.
I'm underneath your spell,
So, darling, if you smell
Something burning....
It's my heart!!
And yes, I voted for Ronald Reagan, too. Once. This is humiliating confessions week at Xtreme English.
Over and out to lunch....
Oooh, ME, do we have to drum you out of the corps? Voting for Mr R, indeed! I've voted for many Republicans, over the years, but he wasn't among them. Wasn't that the year that John Anderson ran?
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Cop Car: Yup...1980 was the year John Anderson ran, too. My partner at the time voted for him. So the two votes in our household were lost for Carter. I also voted for Ike, but that doesn't seem as disastrous. The country bought the farm in 1980, and we haven't recovered yet. I have noticed more than once in my voting career that what a candidate says during the campaign has nothing to do with what the person actually does--or rather, is the exact opposite--once he gets elected. E.g., I voted for LBJ because I was sure Goldwater would get us further involved in Vietnam. Ha. And I voted for candidate Reagan because he was totally against deficit spending. And then he proceeded to run the deficit through the roof. Now, of course, they just lie outright about most everything. Horble.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I don't vote straight Party tickets either. Living in California under Reagan I knew better. Had I lived here years earlier I would not have supported another Californian based on what I learned years later when we moved here. We all have regrets.
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy! California passed a measure that allows us now to not have to register with any Party in order to vote in the Primary Elections. I realize some of the issues this may present, but I look forward to seeing how it all works out in future votes.
I'm looking for the big dog bite in the rug, but I don't see it (the rug in front of the sofa in the pic above, right?). Your place looks swell already!
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