Problems in China

I haven't seen anything about this on ABC World News Tonight, which is my favorite news show because they give me 15 minutes with no ads.  Also, I don't hear as much about politics there, thank goodness; it is mentioned, and then dropped for other news.  But apparently, there are people in China who are killing strangers when they get mad.  And they don't even have guns to do their killing!  This has been happening over and over for three months. 

Dozens of people have been killed in China in the past three months in a series of mass attacks. The latest on Tuesday saw primary school students struck by a car as they arrived for classes.

A small white SUV struck students arriving for class at Yong’an Elementary School in Changde, an inland city in China’s Hunan province.

A knife attack near a school in Beijing injures 5 people, including 3 children

35 killed as driver deliberately rams car into people in China

Knife attack at a vocational school in eastern China leaves 8 dead and 17 injured

Eight people were killed and 17 others injured in a knife attack at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in Yixing city, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) west of Shanghai in eastern China.

A man who authorities said was upset over his divorce settlement rammed his car into a crowd of people exercising at a sports complex in Zhuhai city in southern China, killing 35 and injuring 43 others.

A knife attack near a prominent primary school in Beijing injured five people, including three children. Police detained a 50-year-old suspect. No motive was given.

A 37-year-old man allegedly killed three people and wounded 15 others with a knife at a supermarket in Shanghai. Police said the man had personal financial disputes and came to Shanghai to “vent his anger.”

That's all I have today.

Winter is just around the corner

Last week we had sunny weather in the 60's.  Yesterday (Sunday) was very cloudy, but still unseasonably warm outside.  We had a little rain last night, and the word is that a cold front is coming through today or tomorrow.  We will miss our tomatoes, but it's past time for winter to settle in.

At least Gabe and I had a quiet walk in the pasture yesterday afternoon before the cold.  Normally there are always some sort of man-made noises on our walks. Nothing loud (unless it's a train coming), but motor noises from 224 and 24 highways at a distance, or an airplane overhead.  I stopped to listen and realized all I was hearing was the noises of nature, like the sound of dry leaves under my bare feet, or a bird calling.  On the way back to the house, I heard a barred owl calling and answered her, saying "Who cooks for you?"  We took three or four turns chatting, but I let her get the last word.  It isn't often you hear owls in daylight, especially one who will talk back to me.

I really enjoyed my day yesterday.  My daughter and son-in-law picked me up from church because  Rachel had called the night before saying she was making Lasagna and would bring some to us so we could all eat together.  There was enough for the four of us plus grandson Arick and Alexandria, his fiancee.  Cliff and I also have enough of it left for dinner today.  

The grandson, by the way, hit a huge deer on the way to work Friday and totaled the old car that used to be ours, a 2003 Mercury with many miles on it.  He came home, got the truck, went back to where the deer was, and somebody had already cut off it's head and taken it.  Then he and Alex went looking for a car the rest of the day.  

Our Kansas City Chiefs finally lost a game, first time this season.  They really weren't playing that great, and the Buffalo Bills could do no wrong.  I don't expect the Chiefs will be in the Superbowl this time, but what do I know?

Oh, by the way, I tried putting a leash on the goats, Thelma and Louise.  I tried them one at a time.  As long as I didn't get one too far away from the one in the pen, it worked out pretty well.  Both enjoyed eating green grass, but they want to be within close sight of one another.  I have another leash coming tomorrow from Amazon, so I can take them both around the property together. 

It's almost noon, time to heat-and-eat our lasagna, and I don't have much more to say.  So I bid you farewell.