Beautiful

It's amazing the difference a couple of days makes. A hurricane came through and on it's heels a welcome cool front settled into Central Texas. All this in the middle of September.

Hurricane Ike blew through on Saturday and pretty much was out of the way on Sunday and helped to pull the cool front down our way. For the past several weeks the temps were in the 90's for highs. Especially prior to the hurricane.

Sometimes it felt like we were in Arizona.

Yesterday the high was in the 80's. That's downright cool according to our standards; especially with that nice dry northeren breeze. The low last night was in the 50's.

Brrrrr! Chilly weather, but it's nice on the AC bill.

© 2008 Barry T Horst

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American Living--American????

I took Chris to JC Penney the other day. While she shopped, I looked around. I noticed that they have a new line that they have been pushing. It is called "American Living." Here is a commercial for you to see.

I started looking at some of the products. I picked up a shirt that looked nice. "I might want to get one," I thought. I looked to see where it was made and it said, "Made in Jordan."

WHAT???

MADE IN JORDAN??? American living in Jordan. Okay!?!?

I started looking at other products. I needed an atlas. I felt like I was taking a world tour. I saw Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Philippines, and China. There were tags from Pakistan, Honduras, India, Taiwan, and Macau. Other tags said Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Thailand. I even saw a tag on a sweater that said the shell was knitted in Taiwan and finished in China. I didn't even know that Taiwan and China were getting along; much less doing business with each other.

Nothing from America.

Wait, there was a tag that said Northern Mariana Islands.

Say, aren't they a commonwealth in political union with the United States? "They sure are," according to the CIA Fact Book.

Wait a minute.

A closer look at the tag says that the fabric was imported. So It was made in the Northern Mariana Islands (USA) of imported fabric.

Oh well. You can't win 'em all.

While I was still looking at the American Living products in Penney's I began to look at the Arizona products to see if any were made in Arizona.

Nope!

Let's try being made in China, Hong Kong, Pakistan, India, Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Mexico. Nothing from Arizona.

One day I may try to figure out where St. John's Bay is.

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