5:35 a.m. and I just heard the morning’s first cry from our neighborhood peacock. It caught my attention because yesterday’s news that he now has a girlfriend, a pea hen who is now cohabiting with the big guy. Now I have to go in search of the hopefully happy couple for a few photos.
Congratulations to Howard Dicus, who noted the 200th posting on his blog this week (that’s Howzit Howard). And I also have to thank him for the mention of this site:
I visit just two blogs daily myself — Ian Lind’s www.ilind.net and a very funny blog by Scott Adams, the fellow who draws Dilbert. You can link to it from the Dilbert website, www.dilbert.com.
An April 17 letter from Reps. Neil Abercrombie and Mazie Hirono spells out a number of issues regarding the possible availability of federal funding to assist with the purchase of Turtle Bay, beginning with a clear statement:
The House Appropriations Committee has a long-standing prohibition against earmarking funds for state land acquisition projects. As a result, it is not possible for us to obtain an earmark for the Turtle Bay purchase.
The letter then reviews possible grant programs, and asks some basic questions of the who-what-where-when variety.
Sunshine law violations a capital crime? Hmmmm, I’m thinking it over…still thinking…well…nah, maybe not. But that was reportedly the joking suggestion of Missouri Congressman turned gubernatorial candidate Kenny Hulshof.
This was one of the sunrises in March, a month where the timing is just right for us to hit the most colorful part of the daily sunrise cycle. Earlier in the year, the sun rises too late and we’re almost home before the real colors begin, and during the summer the sun is already up before we leave the house. But during March, at least judging from the month’s photos, the schedule is kind to us. Anyway, this is one of my gallery of favorite photos from month, so just click for more.
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Thank you for supplying the letter from our two federal House members on federal funds and grants for the acquisition of Turtle Bay. The letter is welll-researched and clear. The difficulty the State faces in getting any significant amount of federal funds for this purchase remains sadly clear. I think many of us wish the governor had done more homework before making the broad proposal to save Turtle Bay as a central element of her State of the State address. And thus far there has been no clear expression of how state resources will be utilized for this purchase. Everyone’s hopes are up, but hope is not a plan.
hulshof lives less then five miles from me and I know him well–do not take his words as a joke-he, his friends the blunts and bush’s all walk close to GOD–Just ask them