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RINKLES...

Seems my theory of the virus coming from the Wuhan Lab is getting more of a world wide look, to me it just stands to reason, they have a virology lab studying this virus (and many more) and suddenly this virus is present in the population in that area...there is no such thing as co incidence that close.  Think of the odds.  Do the odds favor this rare transmission from bat to human in some very vague wild animal market...or do you think the odds are more in favor of the virus being accidentally released from the lab via an employee who did something they should not have done?  A virus is going to take the easiest path....just like running water...

I do NOT think China did this on purpose, accidents do happen.   I do think the virus came out of that lab and they are covering up that fact and destroying evidence that would show the truth that yes it did come from the lab...they may not know exactly how it happened? 

 THIS is just my thoughts I posted this theory before and did a lot of research on it...that includes the fact there are American scientists who have worked in that lab in the past and they said various  COV viruses were being studied there and other viruses like SARS have escaped.  The odds of bat to human transmission in a normal setting are probably 1 in a million...but the odds that it escaped a lab where it was being studied, and handled is probably 1 in how ever many workers were working in that lab lets say 500. I was not able to find that information.  

The odds just went WAY up...when you take into consideration, a lab where workers come and go and this COV-2 virus is being studied, it is being propagated...It just makes common sense.  
Trump pulled the funding to the NIH, but that to me was stupid...we need foxes in the hen house...Yes stop the research, secure the facility, but pull out and now no feet on the ground? That is like saying ok you just do what you want...it does not mean we won't be affected because we pulled out they should have said "we will use the funding to destroy the virus in the lab and stop this type study when it is not in the best interest of civilization. 

THIS whole incident should be a huge heads up as to why we need to have better world co-operation and not less because we need transparency and the ability to know what other countries are up to and have avenues open to share technology and expertise.  THIS was a fairly simple virus...WHAT about something more viral?? The death rate could have been 10x what it was.  IF this virus did get out as I suspect from a careless work force at the Wuhan lab, then wouldn't it make more sense to have a reporting system where this lab felt it could safely report this and it could have saved so many lives...without fear of retaliation? 

First off I don't see the sense in having these viruses in LABS.  WHAT good does it do?  Knowing it exists is enough...They were not obviously studying a vaccine against it, so what were they studying in connection with it? MY theory, they were studying the speed of infection, the death rate, and the mutation of the virus...etc, somethings are best left unopend like Pandora's box. 

Obviously there are wrinkles in my theory and there are wrinkles in that LAB that need to be addressed... the WHO just said "it's extremely unlikely that the virus escaped the lab in Wuhan." that is not good enough to satisfy my curiosity...this is from Wikipedia:

U.S. molecular biologist Richard H. Ebright, who had expressed concern of previous escapes of the SARS virus at Chinese laboratories in Beijing and had been troubled by the pace and scale of China's plans for expansion into BSL–4 laboratories,^[2] called the institute a "world-class research institution that does world-class research in virology and immunology" while he noted that the WIV is a world leader in the study of bat coronaviruses.<sup>[7]



Read this report and then make your own decision...</sup>

Maybe....

ILD CAT NEXT?

For a while now I been putting it out there in the Universe that I want to see a Beaver, A Wild Cat, (Moutain Lion) and a Bear in this state..

So today I got the Beaver...such a surprise...this pond has a lodge, and a dam but I have never seen any new cuts or the beaver till today...

I have seen River Otter in that pond, and so I thought maybe the beaver was gone...

Today I walked around the edge of the pond, the backside, and there he/she was.  So very cool...I watched him for  a while as he preened, then swam around eating lily pad roots I assume that is what he was eating...

He didn't bring that big tail out of the water but I saw it a couple times when he was swimming...So awesome. 

 I found a dead Bob Cat, but I want a live Bob Cat or Mountain Lion there was a bear in our town back in 2013, so I know we have Bear...
I came home tired cause I took 3 hikes, one was bushwhacking and tough...I tried to get to the back of another beaver pond...that one is Not easy to see and I failed, so very happy I saw the beaver at the other pond...Im gonna stick a photo in here for you to see...

Anyways it's the highlight of my year so far. Later in the week it turns cold again...the wind was very brisk today and it has been for a  couple of days...it dies down for like an hr then it returns.  

                            This beaver may be a female looks quite fat in the belly area..

Sunday easy...

ET AFTERNOON...

..this morning it was breezy and the pollen was  floating out of the trees in huge yellow waves.  I had some things to do outside, worked on that and came in about 1 pm to put some black eyed peas on to cook...did a load of laundry then took a shower, put the laundry away and finished up the cooking...

I ate about 4 pm.  I like to eat early...Ive been doing that for many years....people don't like to go out to eat with me, cause I like to be seated by 4 pm...lol they have barely finished lunch.  I eat alone these days so it doesn't matter.  

I hung up my hummingbird feeder and within 20 mins one was using it.  A single male so far.  I noticed the males always arrive first here.  It is the same birds, because they will go directly to the spot where the feeder is normally located...and look for it.  Such an amazing little bird.  He sat in the tree and rubbed himself on the wet dogwood flowers and took a bath...how cute. 

I got 2 more blog posts updated, and both were super long ones...Im pretty tired so SciFi movies the rest of the day.  Sunday is supposed to a day to rest so I will rest half the day at least. 

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HEN LIFE GETS ME DOWN....

Lately I am  uninspired.  It's my own fault because I allow the world to creep into my little inner sanctuary.  Not the world at large but the issues and injustice and unbalanced scale of what is and is not important.  I am  ripped in many ways and more and more I just want to be over!! I want to see the end in sight so it can just be done. 

It's like I'm afraid to breath waiting on the other shoe to drop.  More and more I am secluded from the population of the Earth by choice not due to Covid.  I don't want to have conversations, I don't want to have to use language to communicate, I just want my entire reality to go on inside my head....I don't want to figure anyone else out...let me just try to figure me out and figure out why everything is so crazy. 

Our society as a whole is a rot...go ahead think about it.  We struggle for what?  The air we breath should be the biggest concern, yet it is not.  The water we will die without is so unimportant we toss our plastic bottles on the ground it pours rain and those things float, they collect in the ditches, and when the really heavily flooding rains come they drain via the ditches and gutters into the streams....from there they float down into the bigger rivers and the current empties then into the Ocean...what do we do? A couple of nerds collect a few to make bracelets and we celebrate this false sense of ok. 

So much of the time I think the pandemic is here to help us but we fight it.  I know warped thinking eh? Not really.   If we accept that owls have no place to live due to over cutting of forest and that is acceptable,  and beavers can't build a dam cause it could flood some highway and it's killed and that is acceptable, then why is it not acceptable that humans will die when a virus attacks the population? Why do we not accept our fate as easily as we do the fate of the owl or the beaver or the Ocean?

DUH...

HEN YOU DO SILLY THINGS.

Today I was determined to finish up the planting bed clean up...BOY my back and hips are screaming from  I had to do to all the squatting.  OUCH now Im getting stiff, and it hurts.  I always think of my Mom she was SO strong.  So many times when we were planting beds she was right there beside me, and her 30 yrs my senior. She was able to do amazing physical things up to age 73 then the car accident cut that short she tried to but was not able to return to her pre wreck baseline.

My older sister is going to be 73 on her birthday in 2022..That blows my mind...When that wreck happened we were supposed to go on our third backpacking trip of the Appalachian Trail...we never got to make that  third trip.  We did other backpacking trips but it was not that trip we had all looked so forward to.  

ON a lighter note,  silly things that happened recently.  I finally got that bead of water leak repaired!! Did I tell you this already?  Anyways it's fixed NOT leaking.  But the silly thing is while I was doing the repair I got that pipe thread dope on my hands, and it's really greasy, anyways I wiped my hands off and turned on the sink to wash my hands...And what a shock ...NO WATER...lol There I was with a pipe disconnected and the water off and yet I was so surprised when no water came out.  DUH.

That reminds me of a day when the electricity was off due to a storm taking out a wire somewhere along the line so while I waited  for it to come back on....I decided I would vacuum the floor...
LOL, NOPE...you won't, again so surprised nothing happened when I flipped the switch to on. 

And today, this one made me laugh so hard...I had to put on my shoes and I had grabbed my work gloves too.  I sat down on the porch to put on my shoes...Imagine my surprise when I attempted to put my work glove on my foot...LOL OMG it was so funny when it would not go on and I really LOOKED at what I was doing...the fingers were all sticking out. filled with air as I tried to push the glove onto my foot...LOL I broke into a fit of the giggles after that. Annie is always right there with her head in my way when I try to put on my shoes, and she was right there with her head in the mix too...I really wish I had that one on video.

Talk about zoning out.  Sometimes I am in another world.  I laughed so hard I had tears coming down my face, imagine trying to put a glove on your foot, good thing it didn't fit or I may have put the shoes on my hands...LOL. 

MY autopilot is off course!! 

I hear a lot of thunder in the distance we may get a storm. 

What day is it??? Frick'n Friday again!!! Wow. 

 

A month away..

EDNESDAY APRIL 28th

That's when I have my Covid shot appointment...it's going to be the Pfizer brand. So I hope it does not get changed or cancelled...I just want to get it done.  I was surprised that I actually got an appointment, last time I tried I got NOTHING.  My sis had a bad couple of days following her second dose...I don't know which brand she received, I need to ask.  

I  want to go to either Walgreens, or CVS Pharmarcy...but they had no appointments available.  So Im going to the Health Resources center which is part of the Hospital system in our town. 

YET I could buy an AUTO handgun  tomorrow NO Wait. ITS harder to register to vote than to buy a gun.  

I felt some better today and tried to go ahead with my day and overcome.  I did have to go to Walmart so I got some Probiotics maybe it will help me with whatever this issue is.  I stopped at Goodale park on my way in and enjoyed seeing some Geese play around in the pond...they are huge birds seeing one fly right towards me was such a treat. 6 ft wingspan easily...

Then I attempted to finish up the planting bed project, did not get it done...but made some progress. Of course anything like that is opening up a can of worms...And I want to make it simpler, so we will see.  Im thinking of going to the Pallet company again to get some free pallets to help me out with some changes I want to make.  It's getting HOT so fast I really want to get some of these things done while it's still somewhat cool. I want to build a platform for my garden pots to sit on to stop ants, slugs, etc from having easy access to the pots...And it will look more like it's supposed to be there. I try to make it look all nice etc but it's haphazard at best. I WISH I could build one that has two tiers..that would be an undertaking.  Not sure Im up to that. This year has been a milestone for me.  I have finally admitted there are some things I really can no longer do with any expectations. 

I had to get bird seed, some otc meds for my digestive issues, and got some Joint supplement chews for the girls, A box of kleenex, a pack of reusable zip lock bags, a small bag of granular fertilizer for my plants, a small tube of Super Glue, AND that was nearly $90.  Walmart is no bargain anymore. 

And I got $20 of food things on top of that.  

The shootings.

Okay  a 21 yo white guy with a gun went  apeshit  targeted and killed 8 innocent Asians in Georgia. AND  NOW in Colorado a 21 yo Syrian Immigrant went apeshit and killed 10 innocent shoppers in a grocery store...and what do the Republicans say??  "Democrats are using these unfortunate incidents to push their gun reform agenda." 

UNFORTUNATE????? That was Ted Cruz who said that...personally if I was in charge I would collect all the damn guns and melt them down into something useful.  The GOP loves killing they live for it.  

My despite for the Party on the right continues to build as they sink even lower when I think there is no way they can go lower...they always do.  That CO shooter had issues...he should not be allowed to own a gun, yet he had LOTS of guns.  He bought one on March 16th...

OK if there was a 30 day wait for ANY gun purchase, this could prevent planned killings.  NO one knows why he did it.  

Anyone can flip out, it happens, but if we had laws in place it could save lives not just of the victims but the shooter also, a waiting period could stop the entire episode from happening.  
I am not the person to ask about gun laws cause like I said I dont want ANY guns...take them all away as far as I care....IN My own family I know unstable individuals  who should NEVER own a gun.  Like my son....he scares me more and more lately.  SO why isn't the family involved in these purchases, there should be a witness to this purchase, so people who REALLY know this person can vouch for his or her sanity...the Syrian family said he was violent, and antisocial.  

Try getting your depressed family member into therapy? It is completely out of your control../unless they threaten to kill someone, WHY should it come to that????

This country is fucked up....Don't buy into the BS of the American the Great...it's hogwash. 

On to...

EDNESDAY it's in the future as I write this
didn't feel all that spry yesterday  sorry I never got a post off.  It was an  okay day I just felt off all day and it continues today...a stomach virus? Something like that,  just enough to make me feel sluggish.  Anyway I had food to buy yesterday did that and came home to do my house chores, nothing really to share.

Im digging up another planting plot in the back yard which has been over run with undesirables.  It's only a small space, like 2 x 2 ft.  I rip the unwanted out and say "sorry" you don't belong here.   Back breaking to dig it out...I did a little, then rest, then a little more till I finally gave up and will finish tomorrow.  I tried to pick up all the debris under the 100+ft pine, it's been shedding limbs for ever, and twig by twig Im moving a 100 ft pine from my pasture to the dump.  Seems every day a ton of small  ones and a least one big one falls to the ground during each winter.  So I did cut the big limb up a while back and today I made an effort at moving it onto the trailer...but I was not able to finish...

I can't recall anytime I left a simple job half done.  Does it mean Im losing my zest or just losing the last bit of my youth and vigor?  I looked at all the pine cones  shed beneath it and I stood back and leaned my head back as far as it would go and I starred at all the limbs that are now missing.  Each one had been a proud part of that tree for so long and one by one they fell away.  They were shed...

The cones hold the seeds that will take that big pine into the future...in fact there was a 6 inch seedling there beside it, and I said Oh NO you're not growing there...So I gently pulled it out of the dirt, and took it far to the back of the fence, let it grow big there where it's cones won't reach the yard...Maybe in 40 yrs that pine will be the size this one is now.  I will be long gone, by then even the  memory of me will be gone from the hearts of anyone who cared..

If life is fair maybe my 80 yr old son will stand on the deck here  and look at the old pine across the field  that keeps making such a mess that he does not have the power to change.  The cycle keeps going, whether we have vigor or we don't.  It made me recall when I moved back to SC to help mom; her yard was a mess.  The grass was dead because it lay under the fall leaf bed for too long...I worked hard.  I planted soooo many flowers in her overgrown beds.  It took about 4 years of hard work to bring it back.  

She loved it, and I have to wonder would I love it?  Part of the love of a tree is the energy you put into keeping it alive, the sweat, the aches and pains, the effort.  It's watching it in every season as it lives.  Is it the flower that matters or the experience of planting and caring for the flower?

Blah...

AS NOT ABLE TO GET MOVITATED

I tried but it just didn't happen.  I went to a couple of my favorite spots to check for birds...and still  I did not get excited...Northern Parula buzzing all round, yea...seen it. 

EVEN when going thru photos from 2016 and realizing I had mis identified a LeConte's Sparrow as a Grasshopper Sparrow...which means MY life list increased by ONE...I did not get excited.  Sometimes it takes a while to figure things out..Like a grasshopper sparrow does not have streaking on the chest and sides they have pretty much a plain chest..a tiny bit of marbling but that's it..THIS bird had streaking...and a Buffy Cheek patch.  I really recalled seeing a bird that fooled me, and this may have been the one...anyways I have the photo to prove it, I put up a historical list in Ebird and NOW It's official I need one more bird to be at 460...so I'm getting close to my goal of 500 before I die and on my budget.  

Which means Im not flying off to Costa Rica...NOW I do want to go to Hawaii..at some point and get the 50th state. Hope that happens before I die, if not Fed-ex  my ashes to Hawaii...

It got incredible hot today I was not comfortable...I had sweat in my glasses, my hair was sticking to my neck and I had the ac blasting in the van. And I have one unit on in my house the pollen is thick so I dont want to open the windows and someone is burning and  it stinks..so I will turn the ac off when I head off to bed which wont be long from now.  The heat makes me feel tired. 

I need to hang my hummingbird feeder I think I saw one zooming by at the speed of sound.

Cold n

INDY 

so I hung around home...topped up the feeders, picked up all the camellia flowers that fell off due to the wind, I have 3 big bushes in full bloom...such a shame to see all the flowers on the ground, I picked some tender romaine, swiss chard, arugula, and cut some micro greens to top off a leafy salad, with a baked potato and the remainder of the black beans  that was dinner.  I ate early I don't like to eat late. 

The planting bed I dug out last week I put a layer of lime, 10 10 10 fertilizer, and some bone meal and dug that in.  I have some flower seed packs of California poppy I think I'd like to put those seeds in that area...with some Sweet William.  

 

I cut another broccoli head and one more is trying to form,,,it's late tho so may not make...the onion seeds I planted are coming up along with the onion sets..I hope the sets will be my early crop and then the seedlings if I can keep them alive all year will be a fall crop.

Recall the leaky supply line on the toilet, I took it all off again today put some pipe dope on it and still it has a small bead forming, SO tomorrow I will  take it off again and try one more time. It is coming from the left edge of the nut... Can't believe it's so hard to get that bead  to stop!  I did get the outside spigot to stop dripping so I think eventually I can stop this bead but it's been a real pain, 

Annie was not herself today she was limping a lot on her bad leg, she has an arthritic joint on the front.  Floss is doing a wee bit better since I put them on the Glucosamine and the she is getting prednisone 5 mg a day.  So I put Annie on it for a few days this cold air may be the cause and she may have over did it, they are 91 in human years so if the 7 yr ratio is correct...which I assume it is.  At 91 the body has all sorts of issues.

Both of these girls got off to a very poor start I found them along with 5 others starving trying to survive in the woods as pups...they were about 4 months old, Someone dumped them off in the woods near here...Mom and I found them and we found homes for the other 5,  they were all starving and wormy and they ended up with Parvo, an intestinal virus that can kill dogs if not properly treated.  In fact I still had their sister Daisy, and they all 3 had it at the same time.  So I took them to the vet, he diagnosed it and he said he doubted they would survive... I asked him to let me treat them at home. 

So he gave me 2 bags of Normal saline and some oral antibiotics He ran a dose of IV antibiotic into each one while they were in his office,  we crushed and put in an oral syringe and squirted that into their mouth...the prescribed ones,  We put each one on a heating pad in the kitchen...so  twice a day mom and I would give them each an under the skin infusion of the Saline, and I had a bag of Ringers Lactate still in my medical bag from my time as a medic it was still good so we gave them that too...And it took about 5 days for them to slowly come around to where they would lick a little liquid out of a saucer and eventually they all got well.

Not long after that we found a home for Daisy and then I told Mom I wanted us to keep the last 2 and that is how we got Annie and Flossie, 13 yrs ago.   That fall we found the 7 puppies Mom broke her hip and I had to call an ambulance to take her to the hospital and she  had hip surgery and a long rehab... that was a hell of a fall in 2008.

I found Casey on the side of the road in 2014..he was already up in age, so only got to share 6 of his years with him...but we guessed him to be about 15 or maybe a little more when he passed.  I've always had dogs, and I've said once these girls pass away if Im still alive, I want to be pet free for a while to be able to travel more if I can...it's hard for them now at their golden age to enjoy being in the van, they get stiff and they can't go on long walks on leash, they are used to being able to go in the yard here when they feel like it now they are having some issues dealing with the back steps.  Their last trip was in 2018 all 3 of them and went to CO with  us, and we took a long 21 days trip on the way over and on the way back so they spent Spring and Summer in CO and then we came home in the fall.  They have made 3 trips out west with me, and Casey went all over the place with me, and to Canada too. 

Getting old is no fun for woman or beast.

W is for....

ORD.

This blog is called Writtin's.  Just a silly play on words, but  the BIG W, is  my intro and it's hard to find words that begin with W.  Anyways word is today that it's winter again not spring...Brr cold wind all day I did try to go out, waste of time saw nothing in the way of birds and the outside chores were had to get through with the cold air.  No sun either.  I did a few chores had to drag out the 8 ft ladder and put a piece of roof trim that blew off yesterday back on...we had some strong winds.  

I checked out the feeders they were good since yesterday I think the birds stayed in roost...and didn't show up for much food....I had a Hermit Thrush in the yard today,..And a Red Winged Blackbird, he came in with a group of Grackle.  I heard him calling up in the tree they stayed less than 5 mins.  I was on the ladder so didn't get much more than a glimpse of him up in the tall wild Cherry tree...

Upon reading some of my 2009 blog posts, I was so into the Navajo Way back then...I really could align with the philosophy.  The Beauty Way, the Soul Sickness, the Sings and the Dances that most ancient communities had as a way of communicating certain things...I had worked so hard on the inner me when I was in NYC removed from all my family,  and so that took the stress load down to Zero,  to be honest it took only a year of being back with them to put me right back to circling the drain.  Family is tough to deal with.  NOT that there is no love there is plenty of that...but there is responsibility when you're part of a family.  The stress of the job I had was more than enough to make me crazy so I worked very hard on my emotional and spiritual self.  IM so far away from that now I don't think I could ever get back to that thinking. Sad because the Navajo Way is to me, a way of finding inner peace by embracing the natural world around you.  I know it works to bring inner peace inside you, it does not make the world better it only makes you accept the bitter pill easier. 

IT was very hard to re enter Southern Life.  It is very oppressive in this society.  I don't want to say it's ignorance or lack of education , or just plain old bad people but it is very oppressive here.  I think it's the hypocrisy that gets to me more than anything. They carry on about their religious freedom and in the next breath their right to bear arms...OH please which is it? Anyways now Im so cynical Im beyond help.

So do you believe in the moon landing?  I gotta say Im a skeptic.  I know.  It's hard to think that I don't accept that part of our history...WHY?  Because IF they had done that once why not go back every year?  We could have an out post by now..I personally see no use to go to the moon, what's the purpose? Anyways so now they are soon going to blast off a rocket to orbit the moon...unmanned.  So why no confidence, they can not do today what they did 50 yrs ago?  Gravity on the moon is 1/6th less than Earth..  Yet the flag they had on the moon was standing out straight,,, it should have had some droop on it.  That's just one reason I don't believe it.  

Just like there was  NO Voter Fraud, but now 80 million people believe there was simply because they were told a huge LIE...that is the evidence I give you to prove my point. So the word is HOAX. After months of checking rechecking and looking and looking TX found 16 voters had put down a fake address.

Today was only a ⭐⭐⭐⭐  Friday.

Yes this is

EIRD WEATHER 

weather man said watch out for strong storms.,supposed to hit at 2 pm...but now it's 6 p m and we  have a lot of wind for sure, and it's gotten humid,...So far no rain but it could be coming I don't know...maybe we dodged the bullet, the power flashed off for a few minutes but it stayed on, a limb probably hit the line, some areas did get mircobursts and trees snapped...so Im knocking on wood. 

Today I went to visit mom's burial place, something was calling me there today...so I visitied with her and took a walk and photos some of the recent burials for Find A Grave..

Then I drove to this one country road that has a small pond...and good thing I did this poor duck was being gang raped...Yes it's nature but they were drowning her holding her underwater...So I tossed a stick at them and broke that up she is a domestic duck and they were wild mallards...So I hope she survives breeding season. 

I feel weird today  there is a ripple in the force somehow...
I think tomorrow will be a better day although colder... maybe I can go out and explore somewhere...The wind is blowing the clouds away...A lot of the flowers fell off my camellia trees the ground is covered in them...I hate when that happens..

I ate but I still feel hungry so I must eat again I guess...sometimes when I eat like only a couple veggies and no bread I get hungry pretty quick...I've got a cheese cake mix in the cabinet, I have some coccunut milk, but Im feeling too lazy to mix it up...so no cheese cake for me...

I filled my book up with photo file names for 2 hours after dinner, so Now I feel google eyed...literally and I uploaded photos to google..The news is coming on now and they are talking about the Asian Spa shootings, it's just another crazy white guy gone on a killing spree there is NO excuse for what he did....Lock him up forever.  And SC trying to put more gun carrying fanatics on the streets. I don't understand it period. And the Sheriff in Atlanta said the shooter was having a Bad Day..wth?? Of course the republicans say "rhetoric is freedom of speech". 

I don't understand the Minors trying to cross the border, the news people talk about it but they are not telling us WHY this is happening...the teens said they didn't know there was a policy change, they are just escaping violence in Guatemala.  But my question is who is going to take care of these young people? They will need a lot of help.  I don't think Biden was prepared for this...no direct path is clear.

Tomorrow is Friday again...I am pretty sure the Earth is spinning much faster than it did or something...

OUCH

RIST PAIN..

I turned around quick and the weirdest thing happened...I had my hand out like if I was going to shake hands, and I accidentally shoved my hand down thru the door handle of the fridge, so It really jammed up my wrist.  NOW it's aching and getting very stiff.  This is my left wrist which was badly broken and never  healed properly at all...My fingers are getting stiff even...I think I will take some otc pain killers when I finish this post. 

I just wrote to every single SC Senator, about the ridiculous gun bill that just passed thru the legislature...now they want people who have a permit to carry a gun right on their hip.  I tell you I have to move out of this state, and if I had the money I'd move to Canada. 

I live in a rural area people shoot guns here daily...and not just like a rifle, Automatic weapons, one just blasted off 10 rounds a few minutes ago...Im getting scared to be out in my yard so many loonies out shooting.  AND with the neo cons in charge of our govt it's only going to get worse...I despise Conservatism. 

 I watched a documentary on You Tube last night about poverty and homeless in the USA...that's about 40 million people live below the poverty line, including ME! Yes I own my home but if I had not done that when I had the chance I would not be able to pay rent on my retirement income.  This show was done by DW, a German Production company,  and honestly they showed the real USA.   People who have no job, no home, no income or people who work hard yet get paid so little they can not rent an apartment or buy a home.  Some live in their car because they have to, not because it's a choice.  AND some States have horrible renters laws or lack of...in NYC there is rent control and that really helps a lot of course it's not perfect.  When I lived there my rent could only increase 3% each time my lease was up for renewal. 

So why don't cities and towns, build tiny home villages for homeless to take up ownership...they can work for the city doing whatever they can physically  for one year to pay for the home if they have no current income.  The tiny house can be solar and wind powered, while on the grid, they can have a central  laundry, recycling, trash facility with solar banks on top and some could have a shared bath house, why not??

Like a campground.   If your personal space had a small kitchen, shower and sink, toilet,  all one price either weekly, monthly  and people can  work in return for that utilities.  It is so simple, and they could build a community garden so people could grow some fresh foods, THIS is the type society that helps give people a life.  Something has to be done.  

I know many people get forced to be nomadic, hence the movie Nomadland, but some chose it,,,,and they love it.  BUT if it's a hardship life then a tiny home village could be the answer for many. NOT everyone but many...single parents, elderly, people just out of Jail or rehab, emancipated youth,  they need homes to live in. 

In the state of VA people can be given eviction notices if they are 5 days late with rent.  AND once you have been evicted it shows up in your credit report meaning you may not get another place and if you do they will charge you more...SO UNFAIR.   Im so over capitalism.   It does NOT work for the majority of hard working people. 

We have some bad weather on the way tornados have already hit MS, and AL and now it will be heading here tomorrow.  Not looking forward to that if one hits my house I hope it spares my van so I will have a place to live...IF Im lucky.
The worst will hit us between 10 am to 2 pm.. Not looking forward to that.  
I got my spiral notebook, and already have entered a lot of the photo 'data" so it is very helpful...I updated only one post tonight as I feel a little tired.

After Jeopardy if nothing good is on tv, I may start making my list of the posts that have missing photos and start tying to hook up the right ones. 

While I was in dollar store getting my notebook, I met the cutest little chihuahua. The elderly man who had him told me the little dog goes everywhere he goes...he had his little round bed in the shopping cart I got to tickle him what a sweet pup.  

 

Total

ASH OUT 
46F and rain...not a good day to plan any outdoor activity so I didn't.  I spent the whole day sorting photos, surprised?  Well it beats doing nothing.  It's been fun to recall all those great memories...Many of them included my Mom and Casey so some tears did fall but it was tears of joy to recall those good times.  

I got several post repaired...so happy dance  and got many more photos uploaded in prep to repair other posts all in 2017.   Tomorrow I want to get a spiral notebook, so I can make some notes of what  goes where...and so on....I think that will help me a lot going forward.  I've got notes all over the place so I need to get that in an organizer with tabs so it can be sorted by year in chronological order, that helps me most of all going in order of how it happened, 

So even tho I didnt move far from the chair today I was extremely busy...
 had to put the heat back on, it's pretty dang cold the high today was 46, and the rain makes it feel colder...a damp cold is the worst kind.  The dogs were in and out, mostly in. 

Guess what I had for dinner?  I made pancakes with Maple syrup...yum. made a stack of 4  and it was soooo good.  I had a black bean wrap for lunch so that was kinda my dinner..and then I decided to make a desert for dinner.  I would say try that too.  I had a mix that all I had to add was water.  Pretty good too. 

I think tomorrow is going to be okay in the early hours but then rain again in the afternoon so I will probably go out early for my notebook and the birds feeders need  to be topped off. 
Found out a squirrel has been getting on one feeder he is the one that broke it Im sure..,so I moved the suet pole which he was climbing and then getting on the other feeder...they never give up.

I just saw this question on Jeopardy..."a practical joke is to put black smutz on the _______

of a pair of binoculars"  Answer "eye pieces" LOL....now that would be a good one to pull at a birding field trip.  

early bird

OKE UP late!
Im sure I will be dragging around this week...My life doesn't change because of the clock since Im retired...but If I normally wake up at 6 am ...now it's 7..So I feel like I need to get up because daylight is burning, So basically I got up at 6.  I could stay in bed but it just feels wrong to be laying in bed after 7 am? 

So I was birding at 9 am which is 8 am...and yada yada...lol

The early bird and all that. 

I had some in-town errands to take care of so did that and birded on the way in and the way back at a different spot.  Once home I had made plans to dig up a small planting bed, It had gone to seed and nothing growing in it ...so I dug it up and now I need to work with the soil, I will get a bag of top soil and get it ready to either put veggie plants in or flowers I just have to decide what I want to plant.  I have some Zinna seeds started and they are starting to sprout...so I think I will have some seedlings to plant.. AND I want to put some squash or something in with it.  Maybe Green Beans the bush type?

I should have bought the soil when I was in Lowes...drat, oh well Im sure I will be going back that way soon enough...Meanwhile the sun came out the weather man was wrong...teehee,  He was wrong yesterday too...so I wonder if he will go 3 for 3? I hope so.  Mom's spring flowers are so pretty this year I know she would be out looking at them if she was here...Second spring without her I still can't believe she is no longer here I keep thinking I will turn around one day and she will be standing there and say, "HI sweetheart".  OH boy I'd give my life to have that one more time. 

I made a HUGE pot of Spaghetti yesterday,  so I had some when I came in from all the digging, I was pretty hungry.  Since I gave up eggs again now what I have is a toasted English Muffin, with a nice ripe Avocado 1/2 on it for breakfast.  Very tasty.  You should try it.  
Gas keeps going up...Opec, they reduced production during Covid, now we are feeling the result of that.  Just as the economy is opening back up.  
Well we all know they will have us by the throat until someone has enough clout to stand up and say NO.  WHY can't they make a way to remove our gas engines, and put in some type of solar or wind driven power source? I know we must have that technology.  

Okay I have nothing else for today.,,It's getting cold in here!! 

Slow Day

HITTLED A FEW MORE DOWN..

I never really got into gear today.  Laundry, house cleaning, chores, etc.  I did call it quits about 3 and began to sort through the many digital photos...I did 3 more blog post repairs, and it takes hours to find the right photo to go in the right place. Once I round up the  photos inserting them is no problem, I am having to upload them to a Google mail account I made up just for the purpose, it comes with 15 GB storage, and I've been using Facebook, but I don't trust either one, as I've said before Tech server companies in the end let us down and toss us under the bus, NAME one that hasn't screwed you over in some way. 

 I know you probably wonder why Im bothering, see my blog is about me preserving my memories...So it's a written history or record of my life.  And I illustrated the posts with my photos, so I hope to reclaim as many as I am able to ...I've already found some huge gaps that were backed up by the External Hard Drive I purchased, and Is defunked..I got one file off it and it wont' open it's corrupt so says the software when I try to open it..I scanned it and no malicious or malware found...so I don't know what the problem is. 

I have been able to use my scanner of hard copies I had of some photos to put back in posts..so that was cool, wish I had made more hard copies that is the best way to go..I should print out each blog post...I wonder if that is possible?

Anyways Im happy to be able to put some back, the text is still there so that helps. Im pretty tired and my eyes are  closing so this is a short one...I think a good nights sleep will do wonders for me...

First day of EDT went pretty fast for a slow day. 

Know when to quit...

HEN ONE THINGS LEADS TO ANOTHER?

Not me apparently!  So it was that the small fountain I made in a pot long ago was only to bring the sound of water into the area...trickling water.  When I sit out back and relax and just be still and quiet...I can hear the trickle....ahhh bliss.

That never happens, okay!!  I am not the sit still type when it's nice enough to be outside Im in motion. I rarely sit down during the day unless I am heavily depressed, not feeling well or just plain unable to move for some reason. 

The fountain does make a nice little sound of moving water, works very well...the pot is large and filled with various rocks I've accumulated over the years...so I enjoy hearing it while I WORK in the back yard. 

There is one little problem...the dogs think it's an artesian well or something so they drink out of it.  And every day I have to add water to the fountain. 

Over winter it got yukky in summer I over fill a few times to wash out accumulated gunk...but in winter I don't...So it's warm enough to unroll the  hose turn it on and wash out the fountain...I took all the rocks out scrubbed the pot, cleaned up all the rocks and during this time using the hose I noticed it had a leak  up near where the brass thing attaches, great.  It made a fine spray and I was getting soaked...So I have another hose...

This one tho is a very heavy no kink hose, the other is a cheap pos....but now it sprays me so I decided to take it off and put the other hose on, Unfortunately i noticed squirrels have damaged the other hose, it has a leak now too but farther away from the area where you have to hold it...so I took the old hose off the faucet and that's when I remembered the faucet has a pretty good drip...it's more of a fine continuous stream now, and with the old hose attached and the Sprayer attached to that there is no water escaping but NOW there will be...a leak in both hoses.  

So Its a sunny day I have some time, I turned the main water off and took the faucet off after fumbling with the large pipe wrench, and after a couple times of trying with all my might it finally moved.  I inspected and its the washer...no good--- so I  tried to find a larger rubber washer.  Didn't have one, so I attempted to fashion one using an O ring on top of the old washer,,,,and put it back on Still it drips...so turned it off again tried again and this time it was a slower drip..............................drip.....................drip.......................

So I can live with that.  I  decided to find a new faucet on my next trip to Lowes. 

 Meanwhile the little voice, the evil one, reminded me I have another leak in my bathroom.  It's coming from the supply line connection behind the  toilet.  It's a slow little bead of water forms around the connection and then it drips over the edge, and it makes a tiny puddle.  This old pipe under the floor that comes UP thru the floor and the supply line screws onto is the problem...its old galvanized iron pipe..and it's original to this OLD HOUSE.  

My other voice is the voice of reason, she said..."you don't want to worry with that today just one thing at a time, it's not that bad." 

BUT I did not listen to her...the evil voice is a very blunt very judgemental person who will nag me till I get things done....so to stop that witch from hassling me, I go inside and take a look.  

The threads have worn down and even tho I used Teflon tape last time I tried to solve this, still it leaks...So I took it loose, on  hands n knees head behind the toilet, and put more Teflon tape on...reconnected it, turned the water back on to see it beading up still.......darn.   I took the wrench  to make a half turn tighter...should not have----- NOW it began to flow out pretty good...tried to back it off to no avail and a good look showed me it's coming from the top of the nut where it attaches to the supply line...NOT under the lip as before and it's making a big puddle!!!!!!!!!OH MY HEAVENS.  

Run out of the house, turned the main back off, back inside mopped up all the water, then took the supply hose off and noticed the rubber inside there was all denigrated and no good...SO I cleaned myself up a little, grabbed the old line, my keys  and to Lowes I went...

Got a new supply line, a guy helped me figure out the right one, and looked for a new outside faucet it has to be a 1 inch screw on type...But they don't have that...So anyways I will try Ace for that on Monday they are closed on Saturday.  I also got some thread sealer...but back at home in my haste when I put the supply line on I forgot to add the thread sealer...Darn...anyways I tighten it up and turned the water back on. 

I starred at it using a flashlight to see it as best I could, and it took about 40 seconds for a small bead to began to form in the same old spot.  I turned the nut with the wrench a wee bit, it slowed the bead but it's still coming every so slowly.  It's like a nagging little itch that you can't reach just irritating you and spoiling  your inner peace of mind...each little bead began to look like a penny then a dime, and as I starred at it I swear I could see a dollar bill floating thru the cracks of the floor....as the bead formed on the edge of the nut right before it ever so slowly trickled down.....
DAMMMIT!

I've had enough by now to call it quits, pack up all the tools, clean up all the mess I made...I put a washcloth around the bottom of the supply line to catch the water as it gently beads up and then drips onto the floor!! 

I guess tomorrow I will turn it off and try putting the thread sealer on.  And as I do that I have to wonder, what will THAT lead to??  Will I begin to rip up the floor to get at that pipe?  Will I decide having indoor plumbing is a luxury I can't afford? Will I sell this house and move into town like my X did?  All that remains to be seen, as one thing leads to another. 

So because the dogs drank the fountain dry I spent my whole day trouble shooting these damn plumbing issues!! I'm really almost too old now to do a lot of these DIY projects I used to tackle with no issue, just kneeling on my knees made them bruise and hurt, and my back was aching from trying to bend over the fountain to wash  the rocks, and I almost could not turn that wrench on the outdoor faucet to get it off.  

This is exactly why MY X decided in the end to sell out and move out of the house, he was much older than me...so I may have 5 more years where I can do these DIY projects or less.  WHAT needs to happen is when I had the floor open I should have had a plumber come and cut out the galvanized pipe and put in copper or Pex or whatever they call it, because that is the issue...all the joints are rusty and corroded.  

Anyways when one things leads to someplace you don't want to go, Turn Around.  Lately I've been ignoring my little voice, and I think she has a point...

"Now be a smart cookie, and just let it go." 

Tired

IMPY DAY...

I got up feeling tired like I didn't even sleep but I did...maybe it's the Hashimoto's?  At least a couple times a month I feel like I have no energy at all.  Today was that day so I went to Lee county to check the Eagle nest, and a couple other spots I keep a check on. 

The Eaglet is ready to fledge and I don't know he may have already been out of the nest, but at least one parent was hanging out in the nest tree watching over the young fellow.  Such a wonderful sight to see...how protective they are of their young.  You can feel the love as you watch them.  They don't force the young out of the nest, they just stop coming with food...that hurts. 

It must be good to have someone watch over you...the young one may have taken  a maiden voyage out of the nest but right back into it, not ready to hunt yet.  Once they had 2 young.  One stayed in the nest into summer, I felt really sorry for that bird, he seemed so alone.  

So I will go back and check again in a couple weeks see how he is doing.  The wetland is getting dryer now that the beaver dam has been destroyed and the beaver there killed...MADE me sick.  There is nothing more beautiful than a beaver created pond..

I actually came across another beaver pond today on a road now closed.  I will keep checking one day I hope to find a pond that they DONT kill the Beaver and he/she is allowed to live in peace.  

The air all around stinks like chicken S**t...this time of year the farmers put loads and loads of it on the surrounding fields.  With all the chicken and turkey farms around here there is an ample supply of it...Every part of the Bird including his poop is SOLD for profit...Sick 

But it really stinks up the whole area for miles..

Tomorrow I hope to make myself stay in bed and rest as late as I can to try and feel rested. 

Happy weekend. 

Question...

ILL YOU TAKE THE SHOT?

I heard some people died and had blood clots after taking the AstraZeneca vaccine so I don't t think I would want to take that one.  Im not crazy about Johnson n Johnson either, they knew about the asbestos in the talcum powder and did nothing about it...sooooo

Anyways no open appointments here some can book their second shot.  So I will wait...

Today was sunny and warm after a chilly start.  I had to do some errands, and I stopped at 3 different birding spots around my errands, it was good...Saw more waterfowl at Goodale than ever I was there at 7:30 am so that may have made the difference.  

I woke up at 5 got up at 6 I just cant sleep in most mornings...even if I want to.  Things change as  you get older I can say.    Last evening  I had some raw veggies for dinner, and tonight Im going to have Onion rings...yeah crazy right?  I am just too tired to cook anything so I stuck that in the oven and the dinger just went off...so let them cool off some.  

I got some bones for the dogs to chew on, it cleans their teeth and freshens up their breath, Annie smelled the bones in the bag when I came in the gate and she didnt let me out of her sight till she got her bone...I made sure they ate their dinner first so I fed them early so they could have their bones to chew on after dinner.  

So they are happy girls. What day is it?

FRIDAY Again...are you keeping up with this?

US Senators,

OULD YOU LIKE SOME CHEESE WITH  YOUR WHINE?

That's for the Republican Senators...OMG they are carrying on like the Stimulus Bill is not for Stimulus relief?? HOW SO? Money for restaurants, money for unemployment, money for states to set up and support vaccine clinics, money for child care (people have to work) money for Individuals, What about that list is not about the Pandemic?  They said its the worst partisan bill ever passed...UH NO  Trumps Tax CUTS was the worst ever, it costs this country trillions of dollars. 

They have had free rein too long and they can't believe their ride is OVER,,,they never allowed Obama to do a damned thing, I say get used to it.  

There is an issue on the border, that could become a really big issue and a problem, they must get a handle on that.  The Nationalists will do all they can to make this look bad...but WE are a nation of immigrants, I say give them a social security number and put them to work...We need an immigration policy like Canada's.  They make it harder for LEGAL immigration, and that means there is more room for refugees, and illegals.  It makes more sense to me.  

Heck I've checked the legal standards to be illegible...it's a staggering array of financials you must measure up to, I was not even in the running. Anyways ...

Today more chores...I worked on my bicycle.  I want it to be in shape so I can take it along on certain trips since some of the birding spots have a  long approach trail...if I could bike the approaches, it would make the day a little easier for me...Im no spring chicken.. And my  joints and feet are not in great shape, and Im out of shape.  So If I could cut say 2 miles off that walk it would make life easier and I could spend more time birding once I get there..

So I took off  front and back tires, I need new ones, I oiled it up and greased the Wheel bearings, and I probably need a new chain...I will check Walmart but I did find what I need on ebay in case Walmart  doesn't have it...I don't know what size chain to buy...but I got the tire size...I'd like to have new handle bars, ones that are  up and I don't have to lean forward to reach, IN fact Im going to (before I buy parts) check the price of a girls bike!  I need easy.  3 speed would do me..the one I have is 7 I don't need all that. IN fact the place I have in mind Im sure I could do without gears.  

So we'll see.  It won't happen right away I have a balloon payment I've got to have paid by May 6th sooooo Must concentrate on that.  It took me a lot of time to get the rear wheel off because I did not know how to do it...so I had to come in and watch a youtube to see what I was doing wrong...I was not holding the do hickey the right way.

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A joyful day..

ALT WHITMAN America's first Democratic Poet...
His words reminded us that we are each tied to the fate of the other...I think the GOP has forgotten that with the way they are wiggling like pigs stuck in a cave over the stimulus because they are so off base...saying the Bill is NOTHING but Democratic Pork...

Did  you know republicans want the 3 martini lunch to be tax deductible? They want that in the Stimulus Bill......AND they don't want any money to go directly to states to help get thru the pandemic,,,,this is what they call PORK, the Feds giving money Back to the states who will put it to good use helping the people...they are SO fascist and I really could care less what they want...because they are only for the rich. They oppose child tax credits...WTH is their problem...why shouldn't families with children be getting assistance?  They gave a huge tax cut to the WEALTHY, yet they don't want the poor to get the same???
Another thing the GOP Is trying to do in this state is to protect Patriotic Monuments...actually Racists from the past...by passing a bill called the Story of America.  And the teaching of this Propaganda, that was part of the perpetrating of SLAVERY. 
I would love to move out of this State of Hate. 

The leaders of our state house are debating the "hate crime bill" we do not have ONE...they are so afraid to let go of their hate...Even Walt Whitman, is viewed as a racists NOW but when he was alive and writing his words were not considered odd...so things change, we need to change as well...one leader was using words spoken in the past that would be considered Hate if spoken today He was quoting some scripture...THE thing is this is not about the Past it's about going forward from here.

SO today I got some seeds in pots to hopefully get some seedlings to put in my flower pots, and I also put some herbs in seed starter pots too.  They are in the laundry room till the frost threat is gone Mid April..

I went to Goodale SP today and took a walk and did a little birding in the afternoon..it was nice and warm and sunny.  I went inside had  chat with the assistant Ranger a very nice young fella, and I got my 2021 Parks Pass.  He said he is up for a Promotion,,,and if he gets it he will be moving to Dreher Island State Park, it's on Lake Murray and has a Campground, hope he gets it.

Another house fire to cover up a murder in our town..NOT connected but damn. 

Anyways it was an easy simple day I tried to make an appointment for the shot and each site I went to said Booking is currently Full...
and now Im having black beans and salsa for dinner...

I worked on getting more  photos restored for an hour and now it's time for the evening news..

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

found time to

ORK AT HOME...

I did and didn't want to go out today so I stayed home and went out....into the yard! There is an endless list of "need to do's" so I tackled a couple of them.  My back gate the one I come and go thru had sagged and it has a spring on it so it will slam shut...since the dogs could go out that gate, although they know better, If it's left open a stray dog could come in, so it's important it be closed.  So this latch will lock the gate, when it slams shut...it was not working right so I got that put back right the screws were loose and the gate was dragging the ground, so I raised it up an inch and tightened up all the screws, and oiled the latch and now it slams shut again. 

Then I took off my windshield wipers, and painted the metal arm, cleaned up the windshield as best I could...and then replaced the wipers one is a 20 inch and one is a 19 inch, soooo One is wrong, I think the 19 is wrong.  I also put my little toiletry pack in the van so I wont be stuck without a toothbrush again, and I checked the engine oil.  It was good. 

Then I dug up the planting bed by the screen porch and planted my knock out rose bushes in the ground...they have been in pots for 6 yrs so Im going to try them in the ground...I dug it up good put them in and that's as far as I got I need to mulch the bed, and tidy it up a bit...hope they will grow now they generally bloom all year so I expect them to do as well at least.  

I did a repair to the broken bird feeder, it seems to be working, and other little things, brushed one side of Flossie she wouldn't roll over to let me do the other side and I didn't want to force her, she is having a really hard time with her legs...

I meant to trim Annie's nails but forgot...so tomorrow.  

And I found more photos on my CD's to put back into some photo-less posts, did one really big one...it was a lot..but now that one is done its a 2018 post...

2011 12, 13, 14, 15, gonna be very difficult...but Im gonna try to do as many as I can. 

And that was a busy day, and Im beat and my back hurts from the digging.  It was sunny and beautiful a little cold this morning, and tonight it will be 35F.   

Its always good to get some things done.  

I ate left overs on the front deck in the warm sun...felt so good. 

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What does it mean

HEN DOVES CRY...
I don't know Im asking you,...lol

Its a catchy line in a Prince Song, why do we scream at each other, this is what it sounds like when doves cry. 

I had a so so day yesterday it was cold...and it continues to be cold...last night we had a low of 30F...I never got around to blogging yesterday the day was long and then I collapsed, tired.  Son showed up for movies, so I just called it a day and sat down with him for a couple hours then off to bed when he left.  

I had to grocery shop, something I do not like doing...if I had extra cash I'd just let them do it for me as so many now do...but I have no budget for being pampered.  I hit 2 ponds afterwards for drive by birding, not much out the cold wind had everyone laying low. 

I am staying out of the political arena just keeping one eye open for red flags, this one caught my eye, McConnell may not finish his term...GOOD...don't let the door hit you and all that.  The problem is now adays the worry is we will get someone MUCH WORSE, and to think just  a few years ago we thought there was no worse...think again eh? Of course McConnell is doing a hand job on the whole process...meaning Normally the Governor of the state Picks a successor in this case, but McConnell is brokering some deal with the GOP so he can hand pick who takes his spot.  SO in a way he is going OVER the HEAD of the people of KY...and putting who HE wants in there...someone he can continue to control and influence...WHAT A WIPE  he is...this is what he is up to,.

Under Kentucky law, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear would have the power to pick McConnell's successor if he steps down from office, so McConnell is backing new legislation that would enable the state GOP to choose a replacement.

Senate Bill 228, which The Intercept reported had been informally called the "Daniel Cameron Election Bill," would strip the governor from independently picking a replacement and empower the executive committee of the same political party of the previously elected senator to put forward three potential replacements and the governor would choose from that list. 

NOT only that but the GOP trying to change voting rules in all the States, such as AZ, from the LA Times"

One point of agreement across the political spectrum is that the state-level focus on voting procedures has reached unprecedented heights, with more than 165 bills nationwide to restrict voting, according to the Brennan Center analysis. Many also agree that this showdown is the inevitable result of last year’s presidential election, which Trump has falsely described as rife with fraud.
“If 2020 was the year that the Republican Party decided to try to use the courts to shut down voting rights, 2021 will be the one they are going to try to use the legislatures to do the same thing,” said Marc Elias, a Washington-based attorney who has become Democrats’ go-to elections lawyer.

And Trump has told the GOP to Cease and Desist using his likeness to raise money because some of those people voted to Impeach him. According to Politico...

He wants to control the MONEY see, that's all it was ever about from him and all it ever will be about the money the power, not what can be accomplished but what can be TORN DOWN...torn apart, how much havoc can he reep and get paid to do it...what can he Destroy and make money and gain power...like all his other failed attempts at greatness Never HAPPENED...Even his precious Trump Tower in NYC is probably going to be taken from him...BUT if he gets control of all the GOP MONEY he could use it to shore up his personal holding which is to me what his aim was in the very beginning. 

I think I hear some Doves Crying, and they should be crying FOWL..."foul"
DANGER ---->the future is NOT set...

Cold day

ITH THE OCEAN,,

Each day I get the rare bird alert in my email box, so yesterday I checked it late like an hour before bedtime...and there again was the Dovekie. If a rare bird sticks around 3 days there is always a chance it will be there...so this morning, I awoke at 6, made coffee, and breakfast, fed my dogs, whipped up a pack lunch and tried to think of what I may need and off I went back to Huntington Beach State Park, its on the Atlantic Ocean south of Myrtle Beach north of Charleston.  Good thing I tossed in a couple extra jackets BOY it was cold.  I kept all 4 layers plus had on my backpack all day and still felt cold. I should have worn my real winter coat but honestly I did not know it was going to be that cold.  

Anyways I hooked up with a few other birders on the way to the Jetty, it's 1.89 mile walk one way in soft sand...and we had a head wind in our faces.  I did not get my bike ready as I didnt know I'd be going back this quick.  I saw  a few people on fatbikes, ebikes...I would enjoy a fat bike, but just getting some tubes in my flat tires would be a good idea.  My bike is a 7 speed mountain bike, I haven't ridden it in years..ONE thing is its a boys bike, I want a girls bike...it's hard to get on this bike, and off of it too.  

So after a long drive I was on the beach at 10 am and we found the bird about 12 or a little after...it was a group effort having all those extra eyes on the water is a big help...

So the Dovekie is a life bird for me, and all in that small group too....and suchhhh a cute little guy.  It's barely a little over 6 inches in length a diving duck  black and white in color.  We got a terrific look as it circled the rocky jetty we saw it in flight then it landed on the rocks Right near us...And preened while we burned the sd cards UP in our camera's. 

Really fun day, now put me with a group of birders and Im a happy lark, we are like minded in most every way...And I met one lady originally from the Netherlands, now a citizen of the US, and a really nice lady.  We were all strangers working together to make something happen an instant team and it was great to be part of a team if only for a day. 

Since it was cold there was few people on the beach and even fewer on the Jetty only 3 fishermen, and not many boats...So we had 3 good birds to look for  and found all 3 and more of course...The Dovekie, the Long Tailed Duck that I reported last week, still there and Purple Sandpiper. So we hit the trifecta.  

It was good...I froze, but it was worth it.  Nothing is colder than the beach in a stiff wind...trust me I lived on a Beach in Brooklyn for nearly 6 yrs and there is nothing more cutting than a northerly wind coming off the Atlantic.   I learned what to look for in a winter jacket, it has to be wind proof, it has to be well insulated, mine is down...(I purchased this before I went vegan) it has to have tight adjustable sleeves, so the wind cant whip up your arm mine has elastic cuffs that tuck up in the sleeve, then the actual insulated sleeve hangs over that.  A good coat has to have a hood with a draw tight string,  and if it has some fake fur around the edges even better mine does not have the fur....a zipper and a snap flap to cover over the zipper to keep wind from getting thru the zipper teeth, it has to completely cover  past your hips preferable knee length and and it has to have a collar to go all the way up and cover the neck AND MINE does all that.  I would say that coat would keep me warm in an avalanche!!  The outer shell is water resistant so it's not good in heavy rain if you carry an umbrella its okay but snow falls right off it. So I went north with my whippy "car length" duck  weight coat and nearly froze to death...so I went to a store and was schooled on what to look for in a real winter coat.  I paid $85 which to me was expensive, in 2002 I imagine much more these days.  If I had worn that coat I would have only had to have that on with a shirt and I would have been toasty warm...with the 4 layers I ended up with it was bulky and I felt like a mummy. 

Live and learn, but toss in forgetfulness. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐perfect 10

Live and Learn

RITE IT OFF..

Today I burned out about 6 gallons of expensive gas to go check out a new birding place in Cayce, SC...ANK, was not impressed.  I guess the only way to know is go see for yourself so I did.

MUD, trees so tall birds way UP there...ugh Did I say mud, oh yeah a couple of times maybe.

This is what I don't like about birding Spring Migrants...that's why I like winter birding way better, the trees have no leaves.  Anyways I saw very little, the river was pretty, the Congaree runs thru it...I should have gone to Congaree NP, it has a boardwalk to keep you up out of the mud.   

Then I don't know why but when I turned the car on to leave I decided to see if Wilma, my GPS, could find a quicker way back...THAT *&^%$ took me right through Downtown Columbia.  It didn't take long for my PTSD of living in NYC to return.  People driving like nuts running red lights zooming lane to lane, homeless begging at intersections, coming up and banging on the windows of the cars...I rolled mine up and hit the locks cause  you never know what is going on in that situation I was happy when the light turned green before he got to me,  and just hoped the guy didn't get hit crossing 5 lanes against the light.  Then 2 fire trucks came barrel assing right thru the heart of it all...I was immediately back in NYC and all that I left behind.  I do not like Columbia.  It's full of drugs, drunks, and violent people.   

So been there and probably won't go back....I may never get my waterproof boots clean, I will attempt that tomorrow.  

So I told Wilma she is on restrictions for a while...lol. 

So I came  home had something to eat and been trying to get more of the old photos organized, I found a few old ones on Google last night..the only problem is they are small so better small than none.  Now I cant find my MADERA  canyon photos. 

Anyways its just annoying, Totally my fault because I did not download my photos before closing my flickr down...HOW can you store 10,000 photos???

So I just felt hopeless, I did download a lot of them....trust me I filled up about 12 64 GB thrumbdrives....then it was either pay for another year or let it go...and I made the choice...now it gives me something to do besides watch tv in the evenings...

SO the frekin congress has SHOT down the $15 an hr wage change...Bastards...I HOPE everyone who votes GOP is happy,,,and 6 Democrats didnt support it cause they just want the bill to pass...that damned conservative Democrat,    JOE Manchin he needs to switch parties and stop pretending.

Looks like Cuomo is getting the axe in the head, and if he did what they say, then he deserves it...But it seems he made sexual advances, not harassment.  The line is thin,

Anyways as a female I have been on the end of unwanted advances, and it goes with the territory and it seems it always WILL...The thing is with me, I say, "YOU better NOT be insinuating  what I think you are cause I will write you up in a heartbeat." WHY do women take that shit??? NO Way TELL THEM TO BACK OFF OR ELSE...omg it's not hard. 

First office job I had I was 20 yrs old.  I had always worked outdoors with horses, but I was about to get married and we planned to settle down and quit the horse business...So I took a job as a file clerk...I was NO one's secretary or assistant...

Anyways the dept manager had to pass the coffee pot set up to get to his office and pass it to get to my desk before going into his office.  He had a secretary, but she was out of the office for a week...So he came by my desk and slammed  his cup on my desk...and then walked into his office..

SO I looked around at some of the other girls who had desks near me and they raised their eyebrows...I just let his cup sit...then he came out and asked if I would bring him a coffee...SO 

I got up went filled the cup brought it to his office, and told him this..."you can fire me, suspend me, write me up whatever you want to do but don't you ever slam your cup on my desk I don't wait on my soon to be husband, and  I will not wait on you,"   

I stood there while he looked shocked and I was already mentally cleaning out my desk, and he said...
"ok no problem at all thank you for letting me know how you feel." 

And that was it.  The girls in the office had heard, and later in the break room they all came up to me and told me how much they respected what I did.  

I actually advanced to scheduling and that manager was let go for having an affair with a co-worker...lol how about that  I left that job when I decided to start my Upholstery Business...

My feet are cold so the heat is on and I will probably nap on the couch till bedtime.  So sometimes you write off certain politicians, bosses, jobs, and nature preserves. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ still Im a solid 5 today.