doryllis and I ran some errands yesterday, and I actually survived. We went out to the PX to see what they had in gardening stuff---not much---and also made stops at Half Price Books and the dollar store. Ah, cheap toilet paper, yay. Their candles were not nearly as nice as the one near my house.

Today I was supposed to put out canned goods for the mailman to pick up, but I missed him. Bummer. It's a dark and sullen day with rain expected, but I have some good books to read and the girls stopped by. C gave me a violin recital with the tiniest violin I have ever seen, and K planted some pots. C practiced her violin in front of the house, and mom drove by, looking for someone to take J, the three year old boy. Nope, not me.

I was watching The Today Show yesterday when I saw the horror show that is the Duggars, the Quiverful family that has seventeen kids and counting. They are such a scam. They run seminars that talk about 'financial independance' but what they leave out is that they rely on donations and sponsorships and things like that. The girls are expected to do all the housework, and won't be going to college. The kids all have names that begin with J---after their dopey-looking dad, which as trollprincess noted, makes it seem like the kids are all the dad's work. God, if ever a guy needed a vasectomy, it's Jim Bob Duggar. When Mom announced she was pregnant again, some of the kids couldn't conceal their horror. They're probably going for an even twenty, which is just obscene in terms of ecological footprint and selfishness. The planet has more than enough people, thank you very much. Ugh. I If they were black, the outrage would be utterly stupendous. Eighteen black kids, the horror. These people could adopt, but they want to raise an army for God, and that requires their own genes.

Which brings up some interesting contrasts with the FLDS cult. In the FLDS, excess boys are competition, not valued soldiers in an army of God. It's all about raping little girls. I suppose one could say for the Duggars that they aren't killing their kids, which the FLDS appears to have done in at least some cases. Bad as the Duggars are, they aren't murdering anybody, and they started their family after both partners were adults. Rusty Yates was another one of these Quiverful sorts, but he was so cold hearted and selfish that he didn't care what it cost his wife. I have to wonder at the pillow talk in the Duggar household. Hell, I have to wonder at the sleeping arrangements. Those kids sleep in dorms without any privacy. The girls haven't had any childhood. Statistically, there's got to be two gay kids in that bunch. I wonder how many of them will rebel?

I'm reading Under the BAnner of Heaven and while I'm doing that I think I'll put Cloverfield on the computer so as to have a counterweight to all the murder and frightening freakiness in the name of raping little girls.




Here's a picture of a tiny house.