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The First Selectman Taking a Stroll<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I couldn\u2019t face talking about politics today.\u00a0 I spent a good part of the day staring out a window at the huge snowflakes swirling around in the gale force winds that blew in circles around the compound.\u00a0 At one point there was an inch or two of some combination of slush and snow on the grass and asphalt.\u00a0 But by 2pm the driveways were miraculously clear.\u00a0 So, I decided that my well thought out strategy of not doing anything had worked brilliantly and now I should go outside and take my victory lap with my snow shovel over my shoulder.\u00a0 Hail the conquering hero!<\/p>\n

These April snow events in New England are transitory oddball affairs.\u00a0 The daffodils and hyacinths and hellebores can be buried in snow and ice but surprisingly these delicate flowers take no apparent harm from it.\u00a0 Even the birds who you\u2019d think would be devastated by the snow disrupting their feeding and mating activities seem unphased by the whole thing.\u00a0 In fact, the crows almost seemed to be playing in the snow and clowning around.<\/p>\n

Another fence post cracked in the fierce winds we had last night (thanks a lot First Selectman) and I made a mental note to fix the damn thing as soon as the snow retreats away from it.\u00a0 Honestly, this winter has done a good bit of damage to the infrastructure, what with the pine tree landing on the upper driveway fence and the gutter cracking off of the pool shed.\u00a0 My to-do list has been growing steadily.<\/p>\n

And yesterday my laptop told me the battery is dying.\u00a0 Of course, this isn\u2019t one of those laptops that has the external battery, so now I have to do brain surgery on it.\u00a0 So, I bought an electronics tool kit with the fifty screw driver bits, pliers, pick, static wrist band and two spudger tools.\u00a0 Well, since I don\u2019t know what a spudger is I guess I can\u2019t let myself be caught short so two must be right.\u00a0 Of course, the tools are going to show up a week after everything else so I hope the battery can struggle on for that long.\u00a0 All in all, the world is crumbling before my eyes and honestly, I really can\u2019t blame it.\u00a0 Currently we\u2019re being led by moochers and morons and it\u2019s a miracle we haven\u2019t gone over a cliff, lock stock and barrel.<\/p>\n

But all things considered I\u2019m calm and relatively jovial.\u00a0 The First Selectman was glad to hear that folks still remembered the good works he did back in the colonial era and that his chronicler Howard Philip is still remembered as a kook with an overactive imagination who did give Batman a place to warehouse the lunatic criminals that cropped up so consistently in Gotham City.\u00a0 Although how that managed to be in New England I\u2019ll never know.\u00a0 Maybe they thought placing it far away from New York City would be good for their nerves.\u00a0 Or maybe they just moved the whole darn thing to Gotham over a long weekend or something.\u00a0 Anyway, all praise to His August Cephalopodliness and long may he reign over Dunwich and please don\u2019t let him raise my property taxes again.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

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Farmer Cthulhu in Hi s Fields<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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