take it the hardest (used Bill Clinton as an example) -- and I can see that. I bet Anne is roiling with hatred and resentment and has been since they lost.

If the country didn't want to be "disappointed" they would have voted for Romney. That's what was crushing -- his defeat.

Be damned if I'll waste a perfectly good Sunday morning on those two.

No one else really cares about them or their propaganda channel.

It's really hard work, and it's not a sure thing. Last summer I drowned in tomatoes, but not a single pepper came in. The year before, I lost my entire tomato crop to I don't know what (something blowing around apparently), but I got a ton of peppers. No apples and reduced peach crop, but 4 pears (pear bumper crop in this neck of the woods).

You just don't automatically win 1st prize every time out. It would be too crushing for sensitive, precious HRH Dressage Queen Ann, especially in light of all that hard work.

do the work. I went to see some rich woman's garden in Santa Barbara once with my daughter. It was a couple of acres of beautiful theme ornamental gardens and a small kitchen garden. She pranced around in her Jimmy Choo shoes with her French manicure and didn't strike me as being a person who broke out a sweat except with her personal trainer. When I asked her when she found the time to do so much intensive gardening, she said she couldn't without her helpers, Jose, Ernesto and Crispin.

There was a lovely Chinese Pistachio tree with some garden chairs under it. I imagined her sitting there telling her gardeners what to do while Maria refilled her lemonade glass.

she assured me it is *very hard work* bossing around the nannies, the workers hired to re-do the antique house, etc.

I assume it is also *very hard work* to boss around those brown gardeners. And the results still aren't certain because you can never be sure "the help" will do as told...

He was pretty vocal about his disinterest in at least 47% of the population.

He claimed disinterest, but the fact that he even felt the need to mention us implies deep down an interest. Or at least awareness of our existence!

had just admitted it - that was how he truly felt.

Thanks for the Sunday morning comic relief!

Nt

I liked my breakfast and want it to stay down.