Sunday Musings

 

"No one should be forced to flee, nor exploited or mistreated because of their situation as foreigners or people in need!

 

Human dignity must always come first!"

                                                                    

                                                                                   ---Pope Leo XIV

A nice Sunday-morning reminder . . . thank you, Pope Leo. 

Luke Mayville and Sue Self Scully, both positive Idaho forces.  

Two pretty cool people got together yesterday at a gathering to support Idaho public education and sent me a photo. 

Both are Sandpoint High graduates. 

Luke Mayville in 2003 and Susan Self Scully in 1976.

I've have admired both since their high school days and couldn't be more thrilled that they had a chance to meet each other. 

Sue is and always has been a dynamo.  

She served as Sandpoint High Ponderettes drill team captain and later went into education where she rose to the ranks of assistant principal.  She also received a statewide honor for her work in high school administration. 

Luke is pretty well known throughout the state as the co-founder of Reclaim Idaho. 

These days he's doing everything possible to generate more support for public education funding, including seeing that "not a dollar more" of public education funds goes to private school vouchers. 

Reclaim Idaho’s mission is to build an Idaho where government works for all Idahoans and not just those with the most money and political influence. This means building an Idaho where all have access to affordable healthcare, protected public lands, and strong public schools.

Anyway, I enjoyed seeing the photo pop up on my phone.  

Keep up the good work, Sue and Luke. 

Seattle is pretty, and Seattle is a big-time sports town this weekend. 

Soccer, football and baseball, i.e., Sounders, Seahawks, Mariners---they all have or will play at home this weekend. 

Annie's Sounders won last night, defeating the Portland Timbers. (Sorry, Kathy and Chad). 

Twasn't so good for the Mariners in their first play-off game against Detroit. The Tigers took the win in the 11th inning by a score of 3-2.  

Maybe their luck will be better today after the Seahawks play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 1:05 PDT. 

The Mariners-Tigers game is scheduled for 5:03.  

So, lots of sports action in Seattle and the Northwest.  Let's hope for some wins today. 

Soon, we can add ZAGS to the area sports fun. 

After spending the morning taking a senior portrait, I did some farming yesterday afternoon with our Kubota.  

The horses have eaten down a side pasture which we have had sectioned off with portable electric fence. 

Since the grazing value is gone, the fence came down and the brush hog moved down the tall strands of grass. 

Now, little Foster has a big area alongside the lane where he can roam around sniffing for horse apples. 

Besides that advantage, the area looks nice and neat again. 

Lots of fall stuff to do to get ready for winter, but I must say that brush hogging is always one of my favorite projects. 

Fall on the farm with a tractor is A-OK. 

On these fall days, we not only have color exploding on the earth, but often we can look up toward the Heavens and behold it in the clouds. 

Love it.  

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Happy Sunday.