Dirty politics with Dirty Harry

This past week the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage said to me rather casually, "I guess you know today is November?" She's always joking with me and I assumed this was one of her jokes. "You can't fool me," I said quite sarcastically, "I know it's October." With that, she led me to the refrigerator where she had a calendar and pointed to me that today was the first day of November. It was hard for me to believe it; I thought she had made that calendar up herself. After thinking for a few moments, I concluded that she was right. After all, she's always right and I'm always left holding the bag. With a little bit of sadness in my voice I said to her, "Where in the world did October go? I'm not finished with October yet." "Finished or not," she said laughingly, "October is over and it is now November." I like to enjoy my time and I did not believe I had fully enjoyed all of October yet. That'...