Holding On

Winter is holding on tight. It's been cold here since Sunday morning when a front came through from the west. While I see that Erie is closing in on a seasonal high snowfall record. With just a foot or so more to go. Go Erie! Not that it's snowed here much at all. I think we are at a grand total of two or three inches. A few flakes did fall on Sunday just as the wind whipped around to the northwest, changing the rain to snow. None of it took.

Today I spread the gospel of feminism to a lunch group at Mount Vernon Unitarian Church. This group (called "Good Companions" for some reason) gets together and munches down every other Tuesday and has someone come in and speak to them after lunch. Should be interesting. I'll have to find out why they are good companions.

The cats (Zelda and Lucky) are restless. They "play" in a sibling rivalry sort of way. Stalking up and wrestling with each other in brief tussles. Lucky tends to like Kooper and takes advantage of Kooper eating by rubbing up against his snout and purring loudly. I think she would like to do that with Zelda, too, but Zelda is less tolerant.

Speaking of which (tolerance), there is still not a lot of that going on in the political halls of DC. The Republicans for the large part are playing the roll of Zelda when it comes to anything the Obama administration would like to do. "No. No. No! NO!" Like a baby who doesn't want to eat her mashed peas (even though they are good for her). I have to give credit to Barack Obama though. He keeps trying.

In the meantime we'll just need to hold on.