This Saturday we watched The Candidate on TV staring Robert Redford. I had never seen it before, and it was rather a sad show about the ability of politics to warp an originally good person. It was also interesting to see a piece of the party engine behind the show- especially with our own election coming up so soon.

Sunday Mark played games at Pegasus with some fellow obsessed gamers- this time he got to play Fresh Fish where player try to buy fish from the fishermen and sell to Markets. Meanwhile I dug up gladiolus bulbs and dahlia tubers from our garden (since they will freeze with the topsoil and turn to mush next year). I also planted my late arriving lilies from Breck’s Bulbs from Holland- this year and last year I get a coupon to buy $50 worth of bulbs for $25 and have a good time expanding my collection of lilies and daylilies. This year the bulbs did not make the spring planting season, but I got three times as much as I ordered in fall- so I am a very happy camper.