This was as true in 1974 when Regan first appeared as it is to police dramas in the twenty-first century. Notwithstanding his abrasive, recusant stance, Regan still stood for many of the core Dixonian values championed twenty years earlier.

Hubby was ready to wine and dine me for Mother's Day. Nah..... so after church we bought some of those wonderful concrete-looking light weight planters and began repotting a bunch of stuff. First the Plumeria got a new home. The Brugmansias will have to wait - the pots weren't big enough. So used one for a Nun's Orchid, another for a big pot of the black-leaved taro, and another for a bunch of Bleeding Heart (Clerodendrum thomsoniae). Moved all of them about in the garden until they found just the right spot. Next weekend I'll get more for the hibisci (more than one hibiscus?) and the brugmansias.

Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast.

In my depression I was back gorging on two pints of Haagen Dazs a night.