Once again....

No snow yet.

But the forecast calls for that, and freezing rain, and a slight breeze out of Canada that should gust to between twenty and thirty miles an hour. The wind is blowing out of my window even as we speak, and although the day started with a blue sky, it's become rather gloomy.

So, I wait for the snow.

We need the snow, actually. We're about nineteen inches down from our average, and if we don't make up the difference, it will not bode well for the farmer's come spring.

You all want your corn and soybean, right?

A lot of people have been talking about the future, lately.

Some people have an interest in that incentive program the government has cooked up. If I remember the last "rebate", we discovered to our national chagrin that it wasn't so much a "rebate" as an "advance", or a "screwing at tax time".

Some people are talking about the Presidential primaries, and I think that's a good topic. If you want my opinion (and if you don't, why the HELL have you read anything here?) it doesn't matter what color, gender, religion, height, weight, age or distinction the candidate is. It doesn't even matter what political party they belong to. What matters, gentle reader, is that the sun needs to come out in America again. The people need to feel that their opinions matter, that their individual and collective problems are addressed, that there is fairness and decency again.

The good old days weren't always good. We need to feel that tomorrow isn't as bad as it looks.

And, as the wind blows through my back yard, I need to believe that the sun is going to come out soon.