This is what happens when you underestimate Peanut. These papers were, I thought, safely placed outside of her reach. I was wrong – she would have had to practically climb onto the desk to get these. Luckily nothing of critical value was shredded.

Lisa attended the 3rd Annual Backcourt Club Social today to kickstart the UF Women’s Basketball season. Miriam was unable to attend due to illness. It was a lot of fun – Coach Butler is very enthusiastic about what she’s seen in practice and the excitement of the players. Pictured is an unnamed GPD officer with orange and blue beads around her head.

We walked Boxer and Sydney to Northeast Park today. What a gorgeous day for a stroll. We let them off leash in one of the unused ball fields so they could run around and have some fun. Don’t worry – Peanut was not left out – she and Lisa had a good walk earlier in the day around the duckpond neighborhood.

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Michelle Obama is coming to Gainesville! She’ll be at the Hippodrome on Wednesday – she speaks at 2:30pm. Gates open at 1pm.

I’ll be there – will you?

Early voting starts Monday, Oct. 20 here in Alachua County. There are a number of constitutional amendments on the ballot. Read this for a little bit more information about the amendments – note that the list of supporters and opponents is often a good mark on whether to support the amendment. Please also note that since this document was prepared amendments 5, 7 and 9 were stricken from the ballot.

Amendment No 2 is very important to me. Please vote NO.

“Torturing Democracy recounts how the Bush White House and the Pentagon decided to make coercive detention and abusive interrogation the official U.S. policy on the war on terror…You’ll see and hear some things hard to bear but you’ll also meet some government insiders who refused to go along, who stood up and said ‘this is wrong.”’ – Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal, Oct. 10 2008

View the documentary here.

My friends, let me tell you about an amazing product. We’ve had constant problems with the dogs scarfing bird seed and other nefarious items under the bird feeder. We tried to spray them with water, blew an air horn (sorry neighbors), we used verbal commands – nothing stopped them from this unwelcome behavior. Until we purchased Ssscat. Ssscat is a can of air with a motion detector. When the dogs got close to the feeder, the air would spray and they would run for the hills. Each dog experienced two sprays – and let me tell you, nary a seed has been eaten since that time. In fact, we’ve turn it off because we don’t need it to spray anymore.

So, if you’ve had a similar problem – Ssscat might be the answer.

From McCain’s own lips:

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