We took back America!!!!!!

Congratulations, President-elect Obama! As I stood on US 1 yesterday with my Obama sign I knew we were going to win. Middle-America was honking at me, giving me thumb's up, waving and shouting, O-ba-ma! Jack and I will celebrate with champagne tonight, looking forward to change in America - bringing our troops home from Iraq, beefing up Afghanistan and overcoming the Taliban, improvement in our economy, equal rights for women, lower taxes for the middle class, universal healthcare.....No matter your politics, Barack Obama will be our President and we all need to forget petty political differences (read: no Republican pouting) and begin to do our part to create this change. The work to be done by this remarkable man is daunting. We believe he is up to the challenge! And we look forward to watching it happen. God Bless America and may there be PEACE on earth - soon.

Congratulations to the Philadelphia Phillys. We need to now turn our thoughts to next Spring and Spring Training.....Go Marlins! But first, Happy Halloween tomorrow and then we will be thinking of Thanksgiving, then Christmas. I love this time of year! So much to look forward to. We are enjoying some cooler temperatures in the Florida Keys. We had what we call a cold front - not like the ones up North. The wind did come out of the North and dropped the temperatures to the 50's one night and now 70's during the day! Perfect. And we are wearing our winter clothes - socks with our tennis shoes!

WORLD SERIES

Oh, the poor RAYS. What an awful 9th inning. There's always tomorrow...........

OBAMA!!

I worked at the Democratic Headquarters today, making phone calls. I called at least 150 voters and all but 2 were voting for Obama. Landslide maybe???

Today I had the privilege of telling the RNC - calling our home in support of McCain - that the registered Republican in this house was voting for OBAMA! I am looking for a second sign for my yard - the first one says OBAMA/BIDEN - that says Republican for OBAMA!!

SAILING.....................

Since this is a log of the S/V Freyja I thought I should get back to basics - just briefly. Autumn has arrived in the Keys, the AC is off, the windows are all open and it is cool enough to work on the sailboat! I know, there is another post regarding this......but, add to that, we have started talking about where we will cruise this coming Spring!! Exumas again, Abacos, the West coast of Florida, the ICW?? I will keep you posted on the conversation!

TAMPA BAY RAYS ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!

Here's my take on it. The Red Sox payroll for 2008 was $133,440,036. The TAMPA BAY RAYS (GO RAYS!) payroll was $43,820,598. Seems you can't buy a team to win the World Series. Seems to me you BUILD a team and stress team work and loyalty and a work ethic and to play the game with joy and expect that team to show gratitude for their opportunity to play baseball - gratitude to their owners, their coaches and their fans. Now, the Phillies' payroll was $98,641,598 for 2008. If winning has anything to do with payroll it seems to be the lower payroll team wins!! So, GO RAYS, beat the Phillies in 4!! And, oh-by-the-way - A Rod made more this last year than the entire Florida Marlins! Now what does that say?