As I mentioned earlier Camera Girl and I went out this morning on a photographic journey to capture the flowers and other manifestations of spring. There’s a very large elm tree, the only healthy mature elm in the whole area of the state, that was just about to bud. And I wanted to get a shot of the skunk cabbage that are impressively large this year. So, we went here and there and that took up the early morning. Then we did some more prosaic things. I needed to buy about four hundred feet of hose for the gardens. And Camera Girl needed some cherry tomato plants for her garden. Then we came home and I had to do some repairs to a fence.
And about halfway through my work I realized it was way too warm to wear a sweatshirt. So, I looked up in the sky and around the yard and thought, “Summer’s coming.”
And that’s funny because last night the weather girl said there was a frost warning for the area. New England is a strange place. I read that there has been measurable snow in Massachusetts in every month but July. It’s a mighty silly way to run a climate. That much is certain.
But we’re definitely now in the warm weather and people will start trying to enjoy life. They’ll want to have cookouts and go to sports events and head for the lakes and beaches. And even though they’ll have their little pleasures, each time they’ll notice that things cost too much and they can’t afford to do what they did a few years ago. And it will rankle them.
As I said recently, Joe Biden’s regime is a tawdry and third-rate effort. Everyone in it is incompetent, nasty and pathetic. Between now and November this is going to be reinforced by every increase in gas and food price and every crime spree and incident at the Mexican border. By November it’ll feel like that constant dull ache you have when you have a bad tooth that needs to be pulled.
But how do you extract Joe Biden? He’s going to be there for the next few years and we’re stuck with him. My plan is to strike a balance. I won’t ignore Biden because he deserves to be mocked and ridiculed for his incompetence and malfeasance. But at the same time, we need to spend the majority of our time planning and performing the positive things that make up living. For me that’s spending time with family and friends, working, playing and of course, annoying Camera Girl. And those things will keep me more than busy. But importantly, even the part where I’m blogging won’t be completely taken up reviling Biden. He’s just not worth it. From time to time I will wax poetic describing his many failings. But even then, it will be to make the point that Biden is more of a symptom of our larger problems than a cause. Any great country that allows itself to be led by anyone as stupid and dishonest as Joe Biden has already reached a crisis and must do much more than replace him to correct the dire straits it’s already in.
This week Camera Girl and I will be getting together with friends we haven’t seen in way too long because of the COVID nonsense. We’ll go to soccer games and tennis matches that the grandsons are playing in. We’ll work in the yard and do our spring chores. And we’ll be hosting the first barbecues of the season. It’s still mid-spring but it feels like summer is opening up in front of us.
So, the winter of Biden discontent is turning glorious summer and we’ll work around him. He’s a hindrance to enjoying life but he isn’t terminal. What we need to spend time doing is thinking of how we escape from the Leftist death trap we’re in. Elon Musk gave us a taste of what it means to win a victory against the Left. Other leaders need to do their parts. DeSantis is doing his part. It’s time for other governors and legislatures to emulate these tactics and push back against the Left.
Summer’s coming. I’m going to get out there and live.