Frannie M. - Marjorie — Winery - My Alias Thank you for being concerned about me. We are alive! It’s been 3 days of HELL!! The muck is everywhere. Our house survived — not so for two beautiful old oak trees in our yard. They are gone forever. There were approx 700 trees lost during Fay’s visit. Thursday, we dispensed with operation at our office — no power — same for Friday. So we sat in the dark, dank and dreary and, with NO airconditioning. Pretty miserable. They say here — “if you don’t have water in your house or a pail sitting in your house collecting water and you have power — you are lucky”. Our power finallly came on Saturday PM. In the meantime, we have spprox 8 inches of pine needles, scum, mud and some kind of creatures dead on our driveway. We are fortunate in that we had no alligators. However, we did have fish swimming around in a pond (made from the 20 inches of rain) in our backyard. My husband took his fishing rod out to see if he could catch dinner. LOL We live on the intercoastal waterway — the water started to come up and we thought we would have to leave. However, we made do with the sand bags we had filled. Kept the water at bay. Not so for several of our neighbors. We spent the better part of yesterday just helping them clean up their house. We really were very fortunate. I could kiss the roofer who replaced the roof on our house a couple of years ago. We have seen snakes - and spiders (never knew spiders could be that big) — We weathered the storm — don’t want to do it again for a long while. And, if anything bigger (storms) come this way — we are going to leave. Now, what is the question here. What do I think of Biden? Rather slick — too much teeth — lots of hair — sorta like “cream cheese” to me. That he was a big Hillary backer makes me pause and wonder if this is a slap at Hillary. I just remember him in his previous bids for the White House. I remember in 1988 he was totally humiliated in defeat when he was caught ‘cribbing’ from other political speeches. “Borrowed” a passage from British politician Neil Kinnock. Also, at one point, he embellished his law school credits to a voter in New Hampshire in 2007 - when he took parts of a speech by R. F. Kennedy without giving credit to same. He’s running with Obama who says he won’t take money from lobbyists — however, Biden’s son, Hunter is a partner at a Washington lobbying firm. I find that a little disconcerning. But, this is Obama’s choice — they will both have to live with it. And, since neither of the two are my choice — well, there you have it. I could say more but not at this time. I’ve read through all the comments from some 700 hits and, I must say, there is certainly a lot of tacky, tacky here. I find it strange that some of the nasty comments made don’t seem to bother me — when you’ve been through what we’ve been through down here — it just doesn’t seem important. So, I will leave the office now to go home and shovel the muck — I just don’t have the stomach to shovel it here. Much love to you guys. And God Bless you for caring!!!

McCain is in his seventies and has 7 houses. Obama is in 40s and only has 1 house so far. Is this how the Obama campaign is gonna roll? I even heard Biden pitching that line again on the radio today. Sad.