Mardi Gras Week

Monday—Monday started with a real bang as the new instructor from the state came to spend four hours teaching me a four hour lesson on this new program that I am using now. This instructor knew his area and was able to help me with a good first lesson. This was a great difference from the last instructor, who spent all his only time here setting me up with incorrect programs. He also spent most of his time telling us how great he was and what a terrific teacher he was –yet not ever coming back to do any teaching. However I learned a great deal in this first lesson and what I am DOING NOW IS A PRODUCT OF THAT NEW LESSON. I HOPE THAT I CONTINUE TO IMPROVE. Anita tells me that what I have written has some words in all caps and that is not what I intended. So you can see that I have some mistakes in this effort and that takes the stress of perfection off the table for today.

Monday afternoon we took the new Scottie and ourselves to get a lesson in grooming. I was dismissed from the lesson because I couldn’t see how to do it without giving a complete burr cut and that is not a real cool cut for a Scottie. However I did qualify for the gumbo we had and the chocolate ice cream that came as a dessert. We passed a good time and then brought ourselves home and got ready for fat Tuesday. Letting the good times roll.

Tuesday—Fat Tuesday came with much quietness attached to it. Since this is a state holiday and the schools were out. the traffic sounds of a week day morning were very silent it might pass for Christmas morning. Later that morning we put on some pork ribs and pork roast to smoke. We had a cookout that evening and we really enjoyed ourselves.

Wednesday—We had so much fun on our cookout that we did not listen to the presidential speech or the rejoinder furnished by our absentee governor, as the papers now dub him. When I turned on the radio this morning the talking experts were raving about both speeches—how much money was proposed for us to take on and how poor the governor did in his equal time. The governor did an awful presentation and was widely slammed for how poorly he did in his effort to respond.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday
These three days were spent getting ready for Sunday, preparing a meditation, studying on tapes and CDs for further consideration, the week was heavy with thoughts about what is now happening in the country and how it will affect us. I also did some thinking about what passes for political action in the country and this state. There is so much being said about what is happening and who is doing what to whom that I have to struggle to find what passes for accuracy about the situation. I am convinced that no party or political is able or willing to give a fact based description of what is happening. I plan to organize my observations about that this coming Monday, right after I have my second lesson using the computer in my current condition. I might have to just drop in to see what condition my condition is in.