Distrustful

Well, the Sox won last night, breezing along.  I still know this is the setup for an end-of-season ambush, the clear path hiding a pitfall full of punji stakes...

But Wife has relatives in Cleveland, so we're covered.*

Bright and sunny and cool this morning, sunrise setting fire to the maple trees.  We are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Bar Harbor Fire, but yesterday's rain seems to have put a damper on re-enactment plans.  No sense of history.

*Actually, I don't much care who wins, as long as it's a decent set of games.  Little or no fan loyalty here.  Despicable.

Signs of social change

Drove out into the williwags, puckerbrush, back country, whatever, and achieved both cider and Greening apples.  Now Wife can create apple-goodness for a while.  (For all those muttering "Sexist pig, why doesn't he create apple-goodness for his own male-chauvinist gut!" I will add that I do help...)

Noted along the way, numerous signs for daycare services.  This, in (formerly) farming small towns, twenty or thirty miles out the back roads from even our modest metropolis.  The American Family is dying, right before our very eyes, with even rural parents (where there are two parents) working outside the home and left without grandmothers or aunts or other safety net.

Or something.  Maybe they just want a break from the nasty little brats, a sentiment I can understand.

Beautiful day in the neighborhood, sunny and clear, with a good mix of trees-that-have-turned, trees-half-turned, trees-gilded, and trees-yet-green, not all of which are evergreens.  We have not yet achieved "peak color" on the state tourist website.

BoingBoing versus Le Guin

Another take on copyright in the Internet Age:  also hubris?

http://community.livejournal.com/sfwa/32381.html

And on the lighter side...

If any of you be so bereft that you don't follow Lynn Flewelling's LJ:

http://otterdance.livejournal.com/112390.html