Wednesday 23 February

I went to the hospital about noon.  At home I tend to think our Health and Safety regulations are a bit excessive, some of them are actually absurd, but here I think they are downright careless.  Going into the hospital I saw someone with an electric hedge trimmer, trimming back some shrubs without any protective goggles on.  I mentioned it to Larry when I got inside and he told me of someone who was using an electric weed eater on some ground cover, just wearing shorts and flip flops, and a rattlesnake bit his foot, then falling backwards he was bitten on the leg by a copperhead snake - which is deadly.  He had to be helicoptered to Oklahoma City.  So perhaps it is better to err on the side of caution.

I don't wear flip flops in my garden.  I'm not afraid of spiders but I don't want to meet any black widows or tarantulas in my flip flops.  I hadn't even thought of the copperheads.

Speaking of my garden, I had a notice from the City of Shawnee that
they were replacing the worn out sewers, I didn't think too much of it because I couldn't believe it meant what it seemed to say.  However I was awakened by an official asking me to move my car out of the drive so he could get his caterpillar into the back garden.

 Sharon last year was encouraging me to cultivate the garden, she was making suggestions and offering plants from her garden, I'm glad now I didn't do anything about it.
We need some rain, we haven't had any for weeks so everything is very brown and dried, as you can see.

The US have got their American citizens out of Libya, one way or another - Gadaffi wouldn't let them land any aircraft - and Obama announced this afternoon, when they'd all left, that Hilary Clinton was going to Geneva on Monday to meet with other leaders to discuss the 'options' with regard to Libya.  Is  WWIII looming I ask myself.

I've heard that oil prices are sky rocketing, I hate to imagine what it will do to the price of air fares.