Not planning to do much Sunday, I went outside to face the cold and the wind.
I’ve got lots of handy cold-weather coats, jackets and wind-breakers at hand, but that’s not the case for something on my legs.
Jeans, sure, but I was thinking about a pair of warm-up pants.
I know I’ve seen them in the past couple of years – even in last February’s freeze.
Nope, can’t find them, so I go with the warm and cozy top and bare legs to face the bracing cold wind Sunday on my daily walk.
I know there are well-organized people out there who basically know where they can put their hands on stuff.
Even winter stuff in this mostly balmy winter we’ve had so far.
Once upon a time when I ran every morning in the Hill Country, I learned my legs are mostly OK with the cold – I always keep the upper body protected and wear a wool cap and hood.
No telling when the next cold snap will hit. It really doesn’t matter as long as it doesn’t mimic Winter Storm Uri last February.
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I realize any discussion about the obvious climate change disasters fall on deaf ears on a sizable portion of our country – or our county – population.
The latter group unfortunately holds great sway in our country by
blocking action on doing something about this.
I hear more about biased media than I do about freakish wildfires, hurricanes or a massive Colorado downdraft that fed wildfires destroying neighborhoods and about 1,000 homes
The climate changes, I’m told, so what’s the big deal? Those people won’t have to live through what’s ahead for their grandchildren.
While I’m talking about the other half politically, I noticed a vote audit that former President Donald Trump forced Gov. Greg Abbott to do in Texas produced next to nothing in voter fraud incidents.
Even though Texas voted for Trump – and the state had a clean vote in 2020 that was supervised by Republicans - he talked Abbott into the audit by claiming there were voting irregularities in this state.
With the Republicans in power in the statehouse, they can do and probably will do more to sow distrust in our voting system.
And, with new GOP voting laws in effect, we’ll have GOP-approved poll watchers for our elections in 2022 – along with possible criminal penalties on election workers and restrictions on early voting.
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One could question my sanity complaining about GOP lawmaking, when there’s practically a clean sweep of Republicans seeking office in Matagorda County for the 2022 election.
I should say the 2022 GOP March primary since there are no local Democratic office seekers to worry about in March or November, with the exception of Steven Logan for Democratic Party chair.