A Straw Poll

It’s amazing that a straw poll in a small Iowa town can have such an influence on the presidential race. This silly little straw poll shows that this whole president thing is out of control.

Like a lot of things in this country. Stock market, economy, jobs, budgets, deficits, and the list goes on and on.

I still have that 401k check on my desk waiting for the market to settle down.

This year’s mammogram result was NORMAL. My mother had breast cancer, so I make sure to get an annual mammogram. I’ve had 21 years of mammograms – all normal.

Yesterday, Susan, boys, and I drove to Moose Lake State Park, located just south of Duluth. The park has an agate center, which we toured. The center had beautiful agates, but did not sell any.

We fished for a while. The boys do not touch the bait (minnows, night crawlers, and worms) or fish.

The younger thought it was “disturbing” that live minnows were in a plastic bag in my trunk. I guess he thought that the minnows might take over the car or something.

We didn’t catch anything, but the boys got a few good casts in.

Then we had a picnic lunch at the park.

It started raining hard, so we decided to drive to Duluth.

It was beautiful in Duluth. We went to Canal Park, which is located at the entrance of the harbor. It’s a tourist mecca.

We saw sailboats waiting for the Lift Bridge to lift up to let them into the harbor.

Then we saw a massive ship coming into the harbor. Very cool.

The boys looked for agates and then we sat in the sun and devoured ice cream cones.

We had dinner at Tobie’s in Hinckley, MN and then drove home.

It was a great day.

And a straw poll wasn’t necessary.