Maundy Thursday

We had a very interesting speaker this morning at Kiwanis talking about the parks and gardens in Shawnee, there are 23.   I think I might take a trip round them.  

Had to rush home for the  Dish Network's technicians I had to call out because I couldn't watch my television yesterday, but I won't bore you with any more of the television saga.    Just to add that I also had to have a computer technician out as well because I had lost the sound on the computer - which would be a major disaster if a loved one were trying to Skype - also had a few other problems on it that had been building up, but he seems to have cleared them up.

Later in the morning I went to the hospital chapel where Chaplain Bill was holding a "come and go" Communion service between 11 and 1. 

 This is a little present Pattisue gave me the other day, wasn't it kind of her.   At home we take it for granted - if we go into a restaurant - that we can have hot tea made with boiling water, and served with milk, but in this country we have to carry around with us the teabags and sachets of dried milk, and beg for some boiling water, "please, pretty please, can I have it boiling, not from the hot tap".   I can't tell you how vile tea is when it comes tepid, from the hot tap.

    I don't know what kind of monarchy Americans think we have, where the wicked queen, or  evil stepmother can grab power and reign in the kingdom, it's pure Grimms Fairy Tales.   And I am more than a little hacked off at their vilification of Camilla.  

In the news........There is an extraordinary item that has been in the news for the past few days.  I don't fully comprehend all the details, but my understanding is that a rancher in Nevada objects to paying fees to graze his cattle to the Federal Government.  He said he didn't mind paying the fees to the state of Nevada, because he claims they own the land, not the Federal Government.   I heard someone say that since the American Mexican war all land has belonged to the Federal Government.

But whatever the ins and outs are, there have been ranchers and armed protesters, and a major stand-off.    There was even a lone cowboy on horseback, silhouetted on a hillside, waving the Stars and Stripes.  All that was missing from the scenario was John Wayne.