Pravda is reporting Martial Law. I know that can't be true.

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-- (LadyLogic@......), October 08, 2001

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Don't know about California, but here they have blue helmeted troops in white busses strip searching everyone on the I-road. ;<)))

More seriously, fall is here. The mums are in bloom. The white ash are turning. I am home with the local version of a viral disease. Looked out at about three o'clock and saw three deer and 10 turkies in the back yard. The eagles have started to return; so have the Osprey. Must mean that winter is coming.

One new thing. The military jets. They have been here all day. You can identify them because they make so much noise. The MD-11's that land at the local airport are silent. Only ones that I could see were B-52's. Don't know where they came from. The rest must be smaller. I don't know what they are protecting here. The high point of my rather large voting precinct is 10 folks per section. The noise has been continuous.

Oh, well.

Best Wishes,,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), October 08, 2001.

Not True!

-- (cin@cin.cin), October 08, 2001.

A question of semantics! Pravda is reporting our deployment of National Guardsmen to the airports as ‘Martial Law’. Few would agree at this time.

-- So (cr@t.es), October 08, 2001.

It's the Argentine ants. They appeared at some indeterminate time from south of the border. We have been infiltrated.

These are utterly unlike your typical ant colonies with fixed borders and rivalries. These cells are all cooperative with one another. 'Fact some say it is all ONE giant ant colony, from San Francisco to Tijuana.

Their terrorist cells are everywhere.

This is a new kind of war and if you're just beginning to fight it, know that it will be a long campaign. It is a multi-pronged war, and there is no silver bullet. Ask me, after five years I am at last winning though it will never be truly over.

Now just let a single scouting ant appear and I go into high action. My rallying cry: "I will not falter, I will not fail, I will hunt them down and kill them where they breed. I will choke off their life blood and their commerce, and strangle their communications. Operation Enduring Freedom from ants will prevail!"

Where there is one, more are not far behind. When the workers appear, I take them out. When the Queen appears, I take her out too, though she is but a symbolic figurehead. But taking out the operatives is never enough.

I must follow their trails to their source! Follow them through board seams and and under carpets, through hidden foundation cracks below ground level, and streaming through the attic. I barricade their way with black pepper, suffocate the air they breath with peppermint oil, vaporize their chemical trails with ammonia, plug their cave holes with caulk. You can't just do one thing, you must do everything you can think of and only then will you win!

Though it's not PC to say so, I wish every single last little bugger'd just pack up and go back to where it came from.

-- Debbie (dbspence@pobox.com), October 08, 2001.

Saw a couple foxes playing in the road a week ago. Until they saw me and took off into the woods.

-- dandelion (golden@pleurisy.plant), October 08, 2001.

Long sought Indian summer; Townsends warblers by the score in the birdbath; & my first monarch butterfly of the season.

-- flora (***@__._), October 08, 2001.

Flora: How close are you to Bakersfield? My oldest daughter moved there last Monday [leaving her boa constrictor with ME]. I thought the guy was dead when he didn't move out from his log for a week, but today he presented a "ball of skin" outside the log, so I guess he's been itching and working it off for a week.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), October 08, 2001.

'Nita,

I'll drop you a line.

-- flora (***@__._), October 08, 2001.

Thanks, Flora.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), October 08, 2001.