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New Yorkers spend a lot of their time looking down their noses at the rest of the country, but even more so at anyone stupid enough to live in George Bush’s home state. I’m glad to report, with great pleasure, Cindy Adams, the 123 year old gossip columnist for the New York post, has completely lost it. Coo coo. Bonkers. Lost her marbles.

In yesterday’s NY Post, Adams proudly announced the scoop that everyone in Texas was too stupid to know - George & Laura Bush had picked out a home in “Preston Hollow, Texas.” Here’s her “scoop:”

In four months Mr. and Mrs. Bush move to a town outside Dallas called Preston Hollow, one of the wealthiest areas in the oil-rich state of Texas. Houses come with horse stables, lake views, mountain views, golf club views. Kiddies, mother is telling you do not cry for Argentina - or Dubya. He’s not going from the White House to any cockamamie cramped two-bedroom apartment with hot- and cold-running mortgages. Laura does not beat around the Bushes. She’s been to their new home, checked it out, and it’s a big house on five acres. Their broker is the Lone Star State’s premier Realtor Allie Beth Allman. George and Laura are going top cabin all the way.

Does the New York Freaking Post not have fact checkers? Does Cindy Adams not have a brain?

To be fair, Preston Hollow used to be a “town outside Dallas” - in 1939! [and in 1945 it became part of Dallas] Preston Hollow is a neighborhood.

Now about these “mountain views…”

Here’s a screen shot from Google Maps showing the satellite view of Preston Hollow.

Here’s one of Telluride, Colorado

One of these towns has mountains, lots of them. For the other, the closest mountain is 800 miles away.

Lake views? Nope.
Horse stables? Nope.
Golf club views? Nope.
5 Acre Lot? OK, there’s a handful. Mark Cuban’s 23,676 sf house, which sits on 6.83 acres, is definitely the exception rather than the rule.

Mama Moseley says if we can find a house in Preston Hollow with either a mountain view or a lake view that we’re packing up as soon as mortgages become unfrozen and we’ll say adios to Lakewood Heights. I told her not to start packing - the only mountains in Dallas are made of silicone.

[update: this property listed by Allie Beth Allman does have a lake and sits on just under 5 acres - but I don’t see mountains or horses in the aerial view]

I’ve had more than a handful of requests for photographs of Samantha. I was finally able to catch her at a time when she was wide awake and it was also daylight. Quite unusual, actually, since lately she likes to sleep all day long.

and a couple of big sister, Saxon, holding Samantha

and here’s a photograph Saxon took the other day, abstract, modern art type of photograph

Governor Sarah Palin’s daughter, Piper Palin, is only six, but she’s a total natural in front of the cameras. She’s become so camera-aware that, during her Mom’s big speech at the RNC, Piper made sure baby bro Trig’s hair looked good, too.

Notice the laughter in the audience, who apparently was watching “the lick” on the monitors in the convention hall!

OK, a little catching up here. I cannot imagine what’s been keeping me too busy to blog. And, yes, I’ll have more photographs of Samantha, just as soon as the baby’s mama brings the family back home from their (lengthy) trip to Kansas.

Last month, when I told Saxon it was time to pick up Mommy and Samantha at the hospital, she replied with excitement, “Oh Great!” and said “Sure nuff” when I asked if she was ready to go. During the ride to the hospital, Saxon said:

• “Saxon is going to help Mommy with baby.”
• “I want to hold baby sister. I want to kiss Samantha.”
• “I want to tell Samantha ‘A, B, C, D, E, F, G….(continued all the way to Z and “now I know my ABCs”)

Saxon could barely contain her excitement as we walked to the hospital room. Once inside, she couldn’t stop fawning over her baby sister.

• “Samantha is so nice.” [upon opening the present Samantha “gave” to Saxon]
• “Awwww, ‘Mantha is soooo…cute.”
• “Baby is so little.”
• “Awww…Samantha is so snuggly.”
• with wide eyes, “Baby is moving! Baby moves!”

Saxon says “baby’s moving” a lot these days, usually right after she’s waked Samantha up from a deep slumber. But seriously, Saxon has been the model big sister. I’ll give Carey lots of credit for preparing Saxon by reading lots of big sister books and having lots of discussion.

Although Saxon refused a pacifier at any and all offerings by spitting it out and giving us a “hey, fool, there ain’t no milk in that thing” look, she has decided that pacifiers are hip & cool these days. So is sitting in the infant car seat, being swaddled and put in the moses basket like a baby and crying like a baby. On the return trip from the hospital, Saxon already had a perfect mimic of Samantha crying nailed, but much quieter, thank goodness.