Random thoughts

After praying for rain I had a dream about getting rain. Not too heavy. Actually this morning it looks like there might be rain. But now the sky has cleared out.

After resolving to forward mail to some of my children I dreamt about my youngest receiving all this mail. There is a lot of mail for her, mostly junk. But in this dream she got a whole bunch from the same organization. She resolved to send them a change of address.

Doing a long walk Monday morning I had several impressions. First I picked up some smelly trash and put it in a trash can. Today is pick up day. I did not notice a women in front of the house and behind a fence. She was dressed to go to an office job. Her dog was barking loudly and I could not hear what she was saying. I picked up some plastic for recycling. As she was opening the door and I was beating a hasty retreat because of the dog I said "hi". She responded by saying she did not believe in recycling and I should stay out of her trash can. There was a misunderstanding here. But I simply said "sorry" and moved away. Maybe it would be worse if I explained that I put something in her receptacle. I did not take anything out.

Secondly I was struck by how many Democratic signs I see. Generally most of the signs are for the underdogs in this predominately Democratic area. Incumbents who normally do not feel threatened are taking no chances this year. Specifically I see a lot of Gene Green and Sylvia Garcia signs. So they do have some enthusiastic supporters. Good to know. I like that. I like to see people getting involved.

There is a long shot tea party candidate with a lot of grass roots support. He probably will not win but he does have quite a few signs around. His name is Roberto (?) Herrera. He was probably the only Republican sign I saw. His opponent has not ignored him. I saw few signs for her but I did walk by a piece of mail on the ground. It was a poster type of mail that detailed differences between her positions and that of Herrera. She wanted this voters to know why they should be scared of Republicans even if they are Hispanic and Tea Party.

The backlash year has normally safe incumbents taking their opponents seriously. Well a little.