So much for the tomatoes

It's probably below freezing now. It's been damned cold, is all I can say. No easing us into winter this year, although we always hope for a little reprieve toward the end of the month.

I was thinking that the trick-or-treaters would have a beautiful fall night to haunt, but that's likely not going to happen. And that probably means that Tiffany and I will have to eat all the Snickers ourselves! ;-)

She's upstairs, last minute, doing a video recording of herself reading to imaginery kids. We burned it to a disk, and both felt really accomplished.

I was at the Capitol today to hear about two initiatives running in the state - one calling for an Ethics Commission and the other for an independent Redistricting Commission. Both are good idea; neither will probably pass the initiative process. Here, it requires 10 percent of the voters who voted in the last gubernatorial election, and 10 percent from each of 26 out of 29 Senate districts. That's a huge hurdle to overcome.

But that's what life seems to be all about - hurdles. If we didn't have to overcome something, then we'd probably be bored stiff.