![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The lull ends, and more hours of rain follow. Then the last of it falls, and the clouds rush north in some wind that doesn't reach the ground. When the moon emerges, I see masses of wet leaves crowding the lawn, gleaming in the sudden brightness. It is marvelously cold. I suspect black ice in every shiny patch of pavement. The air is redolent of saturated wood and the sweet smell of decaying leaves. When I return indoors, some of the leaves cling to my shoes. I find a trail of them behind me- small, dark ovals glistening on the pale carpet. When I pick them up, they are cold and slick. I put them in the wastebasket in my room. Their scent will fill the air all the while I sleep.
Oct. 27th, 2004
What a Country!
Oct. 27th, 2004 05:01 pmIf anyone has fantasies about those hot Secret Service guys with the dark suits and shiny shoes and sunglasses, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anniesj has discovered a way that you can get them to visit you in your very own home! (She discretely doesn't mention it, but I hear that those Secret Service guys really pack the heat!) All you need to do is make a journal entry that can be construed as threatening to President Bush or Vice President Cheney. After November second (and the various recounts and court challenges and whatever) you will also be able to get the same personal attention from these muscled, aloof, brooding, official Federal studmuffins by making an entry that can be construed as threatening to President-elect Kerry or Vice President-elect Edwards. Republicans will be able get some Secret Service hotness, too, without compromising their political beliefs by threatening their own guys!
(Sorry, Nader haters. Apparently, nobody gives a rat's ass about poor Ralph. I guess you'll have to make do with videos.)
anniesj has discovered a way that you can get them to visit you in your very own home! (She discretely doesn't mention it, but I hear that those Secret Service guys really pack the heat!) All you need to do is make a journal entry that can be construed as threatening to President Bush or Vice President Cheney. After November second (and the various recounts and court challenges and whatever) you will also be able to get the same personal attention from these muscled, aloof, brooding, official Federal studmuffins by making an entry that can be construed as threatening to President-elect Kerry or Vice President-elect Edwards. Republicans will be able get some Secret Service hotness, too, without compromising their political beliefs by threatening their own guys!(Sorry, Nader haters. Apparently, nobody gives a rat's ass about poor Ralph. I guess you'll have to make do with videos.)
Blood Red!
Oct. 27th, 2004 08:01 pmNobody will read this for a couple of hours, because you're all out watching the eclipse, right?
There were some lingering clouds in the east this evening, but they have gone. Unfortunately, I still can't get a very good view because there are so many trees to the east. Once in a while, I get a glimpse of the moon as it moves into a position beyond one gap in the leaves or another. Lunar eclipses are better in winter, after the oaks have lost their foliage. I think it might clear the tree line (just barely) before totality ends, though. Going back out to watch more.
There were some lingering clouds in the east this evening, but they have gone. Unfortunately, I still can't get a very good view because there are so many trees to the east. Once in a while, I get a glimpse of the moon as it moves into a position beyond one gap in the leaves or another. Lunar eclipses are better in winter, after the oaks have lost their foliage. I think it might clear the tree line (just barely) before totality ends, though. Going back out to watch more.