There are definite connections that link us Americans all together. Your rains of yesterday are my rains today. This weekend we are heading to NH where these rains have turned to snow and sleet. As Jill shops at your Amish neighbors Yoders grocery store my wife had shopped for locally grown fruits and vegetables this AM. Just thinking as of late, it’s hard to find any good spreading from DC. I hope that citizen connections will be able to sweep this plague out from DC so we all may get back to …

Your rains are my rains it seems. Today, I again spent a few hours volunteering my labor at a local organic farm. Interesting harvesting broccolini in a drizzling rain, then off to the green houses to do some weeding. A great spot to just wind down, listen to the rain patter on the overhead plastic and just go about such a simple task.