It's only just beginning to get cool enough that it's pleasant to work in the garden again. That leaves me with an impressive stand of weeds four feet high and sunflowers twelve feet high in many areas of the garden. I'm chipping away at them, but it's slow going.
I blame the government shutdown.
What does it even mean that volunteers are off on furlough?
ReplyDeleteAs for the vegetables rotting on the ground, well, that's what friends and neighbors are for. Everyone comes help pick, the "farmer" provides food and beverage, and everybody gets some of those sweet potatoes to take home.
Surely there are some metaphors here. The two that come to mind are:
Starting things off with a bang (and a press conference) but not quite managing the day-to-day consistency needed to bring about a successful conclusion; and government waste.
The White House has volunteers on staff, who have been told not to come to "work" because of the shutdown. It is a move that fits in well with a national park service that spends money to deny access to open-air memorials that typically been open 24/7.
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I think the standard answer is, "Who do the Republicans think they are, to pick and choose?"
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ReplyDeleteMs Michelle is a gentlewoman farmer, distantly akin to the landed gentry of our Revolutionary days. These were a group of people from whom that Revolution was bogarted by ordinary plebes, as described in Gordon Woods' Radicalism of the American Revolution.
ReplyDeleteOnly this [ahem] pale imitation isn't part of the struggle for liberty like those Revolutionary landed gentry were. All she does is collect rents.
Nobody was eating those veggies anyhow. The soil was contaminated with Milorganite during the Carter years.
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