Spent the day...

ORKING ON THE TOWER.

It was a brisk but sunny day so I was at it for several hours till I grew tired and ready to come inside.  It's coming along...but Im not too happy with how the inside looks so I may redo that part...I will decide that next time I work on it...may not be tomorrow. 

I have some errands to do in town,  I have to visit the funeral home that handled mom's funeral and pick up a special Christmas Ornament...and I forgot to get the chicken  nuggets the dogs like to eat.  So I asked my son to drive me.  Since I don't know what is causing that loud sound in my van ..I don't want to do a lot of driving till it's repaired.  I assumed it was the wheel bearing, but the mechanic did that just last week...I want to take it to the Mechanic who did the work on my differential about 4 yrs ago...he is an expert.  

 I will call and see if he can check it or drive it and at least diagnose the trouble and give me an estimate and get it lined up to be done.  The whole front end needs to be replaced, and it needs new shocks. I would love to have heavier leaf springs put on..if only I had a lift lol.  Many things I used to be able to do I can no longer...aging sucks.

I don't know if I will get to see Svengoolie tonight son may be coming for a movie, he is not into the classics.  It's Revenge of Frankenstein's  1958 and in color.  We watched a really good one on Thursday,  Black Mountain Side, filmed in Canada, a good thriller.  A group of Archaeologists were unearthing some sort of never before seen Ancient dwelling with artifacts and then strange things begin to happen to the crew and one by one they kill each other...and just when you think one guy will make it back to civilization if he can walk 90 miles in deep snow....he is caught in a Bear Trap! Damn. 

I had veggie burger with fries for dinner tonight,,,,I like to brown the onion a whole slice and put only mustard, then put it on a Sourdough English Muffin that I pan heat so it gets really soft...quite delicious.  My son joined me then he went home to feed Bella the cat.  So he may or may not come back for a movie, we watched Amityville II while we ate dinner. A sequel to that is currently on Comet. The antenna Sci-Fi channel. 

I went to Amityville when I lived in NY many times.  We had to take a patients home who had a complete knee replacements at the Hospital for Special Surgeries In NYC.  LOTS of NYC firefighters live in Jersey and out on the Island.  AND a lot of them have to get new knees.  It's only forty miles from the city, out east as they say meaning onto Long Island.  Sometimes we took people to Montauk as far as you could go on Long Island.  That would take all day and was normally the only call we could cover that day. 

Sometimes we went  via 9A  over to the Jersey side then back into NY over the Tappan Zee to Tarrytown   and the land of the Headless horseman, Sleepy Hollow, NY many times to bring patients home from Cancer treatments or Heart Transplants, and they were so happy to be home as you can imagine.  

The fire is burning it's quite chilly so it feels good.  OH and the wool blanket had been found I asked son to check at his place and it was there.  I seem to recall sending it over there when My sister was there to help with cold nights an extra blanket in case there was not enough there. 

Hope your Saturday night is peaceful. 

Here is a beautiful little Chipping Sparrow I saw yesterday..

1-5 scale

hat score would you give this year?

For me it's been a Negative -1 

I think at the end of this year I will do a What Went Wrong Highlight..because I honestly can't find a damn thing UP to now that was good...hopefully on NOV 4th I will have one good thing to add to this year.  But if it goes the other way just go ahead and FLUSH, cause its circling the drain as we breath. 

So I kinda off and on watched Joe Young my son was texting me for the first hour and I missed some bits of it, he didn't come over he said he was cleaning...I would never try to deter him from cleaning!! I know what you are saying...why the importance of the movie watching, well it's about the only common ground I can find...

Anyways it was actually well done for the year it was made...and a pioneer in Stop Animation for a feature film...I'd give it a 3+ on the 5 scale.  The premise was this young girl went to Africa and saves  a giant baby gorilla from poachers...and she brings  him back to the US with her and of course he is exploited and eventually becomes a danger to society and you know the GUNS are drawn...then the young girl started to try and hide him and escape the police, and in the meanwhile the orphanage caught fire and Joe Young saved many children and they lived happily ever after..
There was a 1998 remake of the film I have seen that one also...anyways it was okay for 1949, and it worked  for me in 2020!

I find myself in a grumpy mood today...first off the calorie counting is going good but still it's annoying...second of all its raining and I feel like a caged animal. I actually went outside in the yard when it stopped for an hour but it's humid.  I did saw up one log I had brought up from the field last week...and filled up the bird feeders checked their water, and brushed Flossie and Annie's coats...now Im bored again.  

I watched a couple youtubes and I may go ahead and just watch the movie I been wanting to see Son has to work tonight and so I think I'll just watch it.  One of the Youtubes I watch is called Justice Matters and the vlogger is an x-DOJ prosecutor.  He sometimes  is an expert advisor on TV News and he is on top of Decisions being passed down and today his vlog was about a decision passed down by a judge  in DC saying Post Master Gen  DeJoy is to replace the sorting machines he removed from the postal service!! My sister is a retired post master so this kinda hits home with me...she worked in a very small office up in the Rocky Mtns, so she had no sorting machines but she depended on larger offices to make sure her mail was delivered on time.  It's a not so well oiled machine, there is a lot of bureaucracy  in the Postal Service, but it can not be fixed by removing machines!! ADDING more yes! OMG didn't even try to hide what he was really up to..

So a federal judge says NO and you better be here on Friday to tell me what you're doing in answer to my ruling.  These are the type judges we need....and people it's very apparent that we need a system overhaul of our 3 branches of the govt..there are many loop holes that people LIKE Trump can make use of and will now that he has shown how much he can and has gotten away with. 

Since I know how it feels to be poor, I can not fathom how men such as Trump who say they have it "ALL" want more...and would take from the ones who have nothing to give more to themselves?  I don't understand that kind of greed.  It goes way beyond my "justice" meter to just plain "off with their heads"...lol my scale of justice is pretty severe.  I do believe in getting even when someone has unjustly done someone wrong or tried to get more of the pie than they are entitled to or deserve.  That grey area is where the most people should be not off in "out of whackville." 
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 My sister and her husband are vacationing in Utah...she said no wonder they have covid spiking all over the state no one is wearing a mask!! I think I would have thought twice about going there...but I think they had already rescheduled from earlier in the summer. 

I think the reason the cases are spiking in the mid west and Mountain time zone now is due to lack of compliance...so the virus traveled to where it's more welcomed! Howdy do...thanks for rolling out the welcome mat. 

I had some left over pasta sauce it has to be used so Im going to make some spaghetti for my dinner. I added some frozen broccoli to the sauce to spice it up.   I will make only enough for one serving so I can't go beyond my 1700 rule....today is Sunday when you read this it will be Monday and I hope Im in a brighter more inquisitive mood tomorrow.