this pepper

I am having trouble getting this to look right, so I am posting two (!) things the same day. First of all, I want to say that the pepper you see below this post is a real pepper grown by Michael in the back yard. It tasted as perfect as it looks.

So, just to tell you, I have worked more hours in the past three days than in the past three weeks and I must say it feels GOOD. Really good. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. 

And to comment on this disaster of a country I live in, I am not hopeful anymore about the economy or how the US looks to the rest of the world. I was hopeful last week, but now that the wizards in our government have decided to try to make up for all their mishandling of the economy by putting the country, that is, us, into debt for all eternity, I don't see any bright spots.

On a positive note, the weather has been really amazingly beautiful lately.