Ice and Books
There is no logical reason, but with all the weather problems I’ve haven’t been motivated to do the housework, filing, etc., which have nothing to do with weather. Psychologically I’ve taken a couple of “snow days” without the snow. As a result of seeing more TV I heard about another book that sounds very interesting. The author is Michael Oren (sounded like that but didn’t see it in print) and the book is “Power, Faith and Fantasy.” It traces the history of Middle East policies of the U. S. all the way back to George Washington. Who knew? It is not widely understood today that our initial relationship preceded oil. We shipped barrels of rum to the Middle East, picked up cocaine and delivered it to China where we got tea which was brought back to the US. It sounds like a good deal of new information–at least to me.
In mid-Houston, there has been icing on the roads and overpasses overnight but not a hard freeze as is still the case on the outskirts. It is 32 now but is to go up to around 38, back down tonight and back to normal tomorrow. No doubt much of Missouri and Oklahoma wish they could look forward to the same.
Candace