The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

Get out those hankies one more time. Skeeter’s going on a sabbatical to the deserts of New Mexico, maybe help with Trump’s wall if the National Parks are closed up again. We were hoping to catch a little solar down there, but the weather reports looked a lot less than promising. So … it appears we will be on a full blown, all-out Road Trip, no itinerary, no plans, about what we usually do and yeah, sometimes it doesn’t work out too well but then sometimes half the fun is the adventure.

Woke up today to 25 degrees and 4 inches or more of snow. Which makes this place a wintry wonderland. No tracks except the deer and the squirrels and me. Schools are closed, airport down south is on 2-3 hour delays. Life has slowed down to a standstill. As usual we’ll wander through the drifts and take pictures. Like we need more snow photos….

With the usual admonition to take a break from Skeeter and his curmudgeonly tirades, we leave you with the President’s State of the Union speech. Really sorry we’ll miss that, would’ve been Huge to hear how we’re doing going into Year 3 of the Trump Fantasy. Rumor has it he’s calling for national unity. Meaning, I guess, we should quit blaming him, ridiculing him, fact-checking him and investigating him and just come together to build that Wall, go back to coal burning, deport illegal aliens and their kids, lower taxes on the wealthy, call global warming the hoax that it is and get rid of most regulations that drive businesses in the Land of the Free to other countries. Sure wish I could stick around to hear that.

But like a lot of folks after two years of what seems like a national nightmare, I’m tired of it. This, I suspect, is how you shrink government to the size you can drown in a tub or a toilet, just wear us down, make us think how ineffective it can be, convince us to become apathetic and sow the seeds of viral pessimism. Tell us you’ll bring back coal because global warming is bullshit, tell us you’re bringing back factory jobs when we all know they aren’t coming to these shores, tell us the #1 Priority is a Wall at the border, tell us lie after lie after lie until none of us listen or care anymore. The Tantrum Tweet King is at the wheel, one tire in the ditch, the rest of us strapped in the back. For a couple weeks I’m going to get out and hitchhike across New Mexico, see what America looks like at ground level, slowed down and not so scary.

Skeeter

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