Not liking today's Saints matchup versus the Redskins. The Skins have had 10 days to fix the problems they had with the Giants, are healthy, and playing at home. Saints are banged up big time already. WR Marques Colston and LB Scott Fujita will not play today. Would like to see the Saints running game play a bigger role today. That would probably mean they're ahead.
USC looked pretty good yesterday. They now have a pretty clear path to the BCS National Championship game, probably against the Oklahoma-Texas winner. I don't see anyone getting through the SEC this season undefeated or even with just one loss. I'd like to give my hometown Tulane Green Wave credit for the way they've played the last two weeks. They're a very tough 0-2 today but they gave ranked Alabama all they could handle last week in Tuscaloosa and lost a last minute heartbreaker to ranked East Carolina yesterday in the Superdome.
Yesterday's post brought a slew of new commenters to the blog. I was just making an observation. I had no intention of starting a political or economics debate. They'll have to continue elsewhere.
I offer the view from my living room this morning. The CrabAppleLane hummingbirds are truly a joy. Patsy had only seen one in her entire life before we moved here. If she had counted, she would surely be in the thousands by now.
CrabAppleLane Hummingbirds - September 14, 2008 - They're starting to swarm. They're loading up for their migration in a few weeks.
Quote of the Day
Sometimes you're the windshield
Sometimes you're the bug
Dire Straits, The Bug
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "By the way, the question of whether to run out and fill your tank tonight is a classic prisnoners dilemma game. We are all better off if no one does it, but each invidividual probably maximizes his or her well-being by deciding to fill up, so everyone does it."
Heh...Struck a nerve, did you? :)
Good luck to your Saints today.
Apparently so, Dave. Not sure where they came from.
Good Luck to the Vikes, too.
Unfortunately your blog doesn't remember my personal info, regardless of how many times I enter it & click the little box. Cool on the hummingbirds! I can't feed them (due to my bee allergy,) but I know there are plenty of other people (like y'all,) that will pick up my slack.
That personal info thing only works in Firefox for some reason, Lana. No one I've talked to seems to know the answer.
Your hummingbirds are so beautiful. I recently told you (I think) that I'd only seen one hummingbird in my lifetime. Well, a couple weeks after that, I saw another one. It flew right up to my porch and, just as fast, flew away.
Seven in this picture, Marie. They are beautiful.
One of the hummingbirds seems very large. Is it a different variety? Did Katie call you about her strange hummingbird? She learned from the book that it probably was a ruby-throated fellow only his ruby was neon orange. She said it was very beautiful.
These are all Ruby-throated hummingbirds, Mom. We have an occasional Rufous ( http://www.hummingbirds.net/rufous.html ) or two that passes through but I haven't seen any this year. Haven't talked to Katie but she's better at identifying them than me. She and Kevin were at my house the first time a Rufous visited.
Nice shot of the hummingbirds.
My mother puts feeders out. We counted 13 or 14 buzzing around them during lunch one day.
There's something very cool about hummingbirds.
Having hummingbirds is way cool, delmer. I love our cardinals first but the hummers are a close second.