Hit the big 8-0 today---------

Actually, 81!! No, not years old--give me a break! Temperature in the carport, I was speaking of, while I was painting out there. Final peak was 84+, but that was when the sun was way in the west, and hitting the sensor directly for a little while, but the 81.2 was in the shade, about 4 in the afternoon, DST.

DST------I did not want to get out of bed Sunday, for sure, and didn't get out very early today. Going to take a few days to get used to the change. Sunday was tough, trying to get under motion to make it to church by around 8am. Everyone seemed a little slow in moving around, so guess it wasn't just me. Even the Pastor seemed ready for a nap.

I did mow the lawn today. Had not done it for a while, and we are short on rainfall enough that even watering only keeps it green, not thriving. Of course, some spots needed a trim, so the whole thing had to be mowed. It does look better. And then I got around to cutting in the inside carport wall, that hadn't gotten painted with the rest of the house. I really dislike painting white on white. It is so hard to tell where you have been. Even repainting the same color, with Latex paint, is not so hard, as it darkens as it dries, but white is a real bear. There are some ceiling paints out that actually have a tint, either blue or pink, to let you see where you have been, and then when it dries, it turns white. Sure could use some additive to do that with white exterior house paint, to make the job easier.

Palm Beach County lost another of their commissioners last Friday, or at least the resignation was Friday, effective the end of April. Reason for this one, was health problems, bad knees mainly, it seems. She should have just not run for reelection last November, and let the voters pick a replacement, but she 'wanted to teach the Republicans a lesson' --her words. She is from a very strong black community, and got 70+% of the vote, and wants to put the pressure on the governor to appoint another lady Democrat to fill the post, until a special election in 2010. I guess not running would have been to easy, and she would not be able to run again in 2012, due to term limits. She has been in trouble with LEOs in the past, telling young black drivers NOT to stop, if a police officer, particularly white ones, told them to pull over, but to drive to an area where they had lots of friends around!! She almost caused a riot in her office, when she said that, which was the aftermath of an officer shooting a teen, unlicensed, driving down a sidewalk at a school dance, refusing to stop. The driver lost his life, the officer lost his career, and the city of Delray lost several million $$$s over it. Bad choices by kids wanting to be drivers and BMOC. And two men are still fighting over who gets the money the courts awarded, the biological father , who had had NO contact with the kids until a possible $$$ settlement was in the works, or the man who raised the kids, along with the mother. Great father figures!