Birds on a wire

 

As sis L says

  S said Hegseth is being impeached, not fired. And Russell Brand was sentenced to ten years for tape in England. I’m shaking my head, maybe out of sympathy for L. Justice system unreliable 

  S upset us with an unreasonable request for a faucet part early this morning but solved the issue herself now on phone talking politely to A. 

  Supper almost ready.  Dutch apple pie! By Marie Callender; very tasty. 

  Excellent weather for a 1 mile morning walk with Red. Met three little dogs. And a flock of chickens plus the blonde toddler girl who loves Red. She clearly said he’s cute but she didn’t seem to like to pet him. 

  German web Ok but I talked too much. Maybe overly prepared for the beginning of chapter 31, sixth and final descent to investigate cause of psychological need for mutual self destruction. 

   Email to DdiB re no will codicil she said we already agreed to that but not what I remember so it’s written down now b

Good grief!

 

Orange where I find it in the gray times

Stock market is down big time. I have not been looking, but I’ve lost at least a lot since end of September   Guess I should have skimmed some dinero out of it sooner  it’s all wrong too I guess: Boils down to the cost of the house in 1970. Makes home repairs look scary, eg  the only estimate I got for the retaining wall with 16 K, for example. So income loss and built-in instability of the market plus inflation  Maybe I will read needle Mann book on money and the meaning of life   

Got a lot of niggling tasks done today, Bill pay, partially successful computer printing, arrangement to sell my rock collection 11-19. C’s surgery went well. 

A nice surprise

 

Just now. Never seen deer here in 50 years. 

They have been nearby this year,

Going Down driveways and into yards via our front road.

Maybe they’re looking for a safe spot in hunting season😄

Just the two of us !

Of course there was the morning about five years ago when a deer hit ran onto and hit my red car rear passenger door. By Corsetti store or whatever it was called at the time. Little guy got up, shook it off and kept running across the street before I could get out of the car. 

It has been a rainy chill gray day , 

But the sun just came out brilliantly 

 an hour before sunset. 

Maybe you can see the difference in the light between

the pictures of the deer and these two

You’re fired!

 

9-12-25 Bogart. A tangled web

   Good grief!   Trump is backtracking all he’s done, at least with his appointment; Hegseth is the latest head to roll.  That won’t make him any more popular or effective, I think,  and signals RB may be right: Iran won the war. I decried that, but now must ask, has not that war killed Trump politically?  For all intents, he and all his marvelous grand plans for the country have been rendered lame duck; they will likely crumble over the next two years in the Democratic push for self-abnegation and annihilation.  I wonder what will become of Israel, too, God help them, too. Is this national shortsightedness really about the price of oil?  Well,  certainly I can see the other factors:  the  ICE martyrs, the DOGE corruption exposures’ surprising backlash, antisemitism and proHamas sentiment, demand for ever more universal government welfare expressed as anti capitalism pro communism, anti Christian and pro Muslim demands, anti police/pro criminal/anti victim, looting and street mobs gussied up as peaceful protest, and even RS’s typical liberal anti military rant founded on Vietnam Nam and Colonel Daddy issues (sorry getting too personal). That’s a lot of irrational antis. And I won’t get into the great racial divide. 

    The zeitgeist flipped overnight, like a fish out of water. Clearly, the population generally prefers flab to fierce, with no place for moderation or history, And I fear that even a personality as strong as Donald Trump can only act temporarily as a rock in the path of that cataract flow. I hope I’m wrong and that Vance, Rubio, Bessent, Cruz  and their compadres, can and will turn the flow again in two more years.  I also hope my President has a few more aces up his sleeve before then and that God really is on our side, even if God does not take sides. (By the way, listening to the Torah portions daily indicates to me that God does indeed take sides. Of course that’s another secularist argument to deny that God even plays a part in human affairs.)

     Lord help us!

Release

 

Quick stop in the rainy afternoon park we love

Another interesting coinkidink on NP astrology predicts of yesterday not even so-so, today outstanding in all thee signs. Wasn’t anticipating the pressure of three appointments today and I added a driving trip to Pharmacy at West gate. The five people I met today were pure joys. MM, our new Plumber and his dad, to start with. He proposed fixes for all my problems, not just the toilet upstairs, and he is so sincere and honest Yeah, I told him I was glad he came into my life.  CB will be my new hairstylist and she’s only five minutes away; her husband knew E and even S but is Practically family with P& J C. We have so many things in common in the neighborhood and town, including cancer;  he has been treated for leukemia yet is incredibly outgoing and cheerful. Then we met D from meals on wheels And made arrangements to start those next week thanks to DdiB Who told her she was like her daughter and will be our reference for that agency. Finally, Red and I went to Cvs West gate and US PO Complementing some cute ladies on the way. We intended to get Dairy Queen on the way home, but pulled out a line at the drive-through because they were taking too long in the car ahead  Sorry, folks! Not sorry  I should not be eating that anyway since I’ve gained 10 pounds this month Back up to 170  

  But the best news is that L is out of jail, and the debt has been cleared with state waiving their portion and MIL’s signature already collected on a document to drop her portion. TNJ!!!  I did my part too, thanks be that I could 

Blue wave blues

 

What next?  

Mike Johnson said “disappointed but never discouraged.”Right attitude. Now just drop it? I will never understand  the shortsighted American electorate. JG text of moving to New Hampshire, although I’m not sure that would do any good  how hard do people want to make life in this country setting of government at odds with itself? I think I have to tell Mike I am discouraged.

  Newspaper astrology gives me a so so day in all three signs and mercury is still in retrograde  So far my Plummer did not show up at 8 o’clock. He had an emergency elsewhere so I hope to see him at 1 o’clock.  Seems like this happens every time I try to hire a workman  As with the retaining wall project’s failure  

  On the other hand, what is there to look forward to? That’s good today?  Dwell on that  For example, I liked my Daichi installment for the day

My Plumber can’t come today at all. Hopefully, I will meet him tomorrow at 8 o’clock and not have to call somebody else.    

Hate to say it, but Ahole Booker he is right in saying, not a blue wave a blue tsunami

Tired and sleepy

Neighbors yard off Longfellow.

 Adorable young boy there said 

he and his mom do dog sitting; 

good to know,I said

 

 Adjusting to the time change is difficult, and I feel it today. S is feeling OK today; she had another infusion today. God bless her  Hope  L is adjusting to her new normal. Emailed MM about her son in military and how proud she must be of him; of course I know she was being shamed with denial and rationalization larded on.    

   We saw lots of neighbors today and enjoyed chatting with  Webinar went well a little strange, very stubborn reading:  A monk named Ignatius and Mont Saint Michel. Set up appointment to see Plumber tomorrow for new upstairs toilet and also meals on wheels lady after my hair on Thursday  Getting busy I guess. Weather temperature will be nice tomorrow too and was today. No more Werthers. That’s a good thing, don’t buy anymore!  I have gained back 5 lbs! 

    Is election night and it’s a blue flood unfortunately

Time change

5:35 am 

Fall back, spring ahead. A day out of this years DST so clock says 5:30. But Saturday this wad 6:30. Well I’m awake anyway for the past two hours. Mostly fretting about falling yesterday, on top of the crashes and near misses of this year. Hard to fill the joy of life. At least at this hour in the morning. 

The day after

 

H and P, two of my faves

JS costumed as a banana and we couldn’t see him at all. Thank goodness his parents were there and they were pretty cute too in one piece duck and manga costumes  F came as a little witch and her mom as the grown-up witch, T was with them in his T-shirt. Pretty dog Paris came as a ballerina  Only 11 Trick-or-treaters!  So few!  Also saw C and K And a cousin coming home From wherever they went door-to-door. I like those kids very much. A couple of the African kids were afraid of Red and wouldn’t come to the door of the 6 presumably from Greenfield. I loved the smiling faces of the ones who were actually friendly  it must be a new experience and kind of scary for them knocking on white people’s doors, even if candy is the reward. Two girls in particular, I would love to meet and talk to again. I know C and I were passing out candy and our wonderful Asian neighbors had their lights going full on so they must’ve been passing out candy, but I’m not sure how many other people were  So it’s harder for kids to do this neighborhood these days I’m guessing

More later; it IS Halloween

 Treats:

We’re ready 

So is Red

Roll him over 

Here’s a nasty trick. 

L is in jail for 20 days for unpaid child support of $6000, despite  the facts that she’s wheelchair bound and hasn’t worked in at least a decade. Never understood why she was ordered to pay child support anyway  I think this is her vengeful ex husband and his mother refusing to let go of a prosecution that should’ve ended years ago since their sons are both in their 20s and would not see a dime if the money was paid. 

I sent an email to JD Vance about the story, and it made me feel a bit better. Insult to injury, though: C says segregated from other inmates and no TV or books because of her wheelchair. I don’t know whether the time in jail will end the prosecution/persecution or whether they’ll keep coming after her for the money or more jail time in the future  Certainly unjust.

   C said this jail time will complete her debt. If so, she is earning $300 a day just staying there. Maybe psychological suffering, but logical way to pay off the debt since only the evil MIL would get the 6K if it were paid

Halloween was fun, but we only got 10 kids. That’s a lot of leftover candy and pretzels!