Well….running a little late this morning but that is normal for a Sunday….slept okay even in the heat but my thumb hurts like crazy for some reason today…have to not use the space bar so much…not sure how that is going to work but it hurts enough that I’m going to try it…maybe hit it with my left thumb? Cripes, it 7 am and it is still sticky and I’m already sweating so I’m going to be soaked on the bike in a few minutes…I did get some news from my middle son yesterday that he and his wife are having a girl so that will be one of each in the next year…I’m pretty excited about that and it will be good to get things back to a semblance of normal….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today looks the same as I wait for the weather to cooperate and get a little cooler…but, I can’t wait too long…need to get up on the roof and get started on the dormer this week and get the front door done, too….my foot is not going to cooperate but I guess I’ll just have to live with it….still haven’t seen a hummingbird at my feeder so I moved it to the back yard to see if less noise will help…I’ve never been able to get them to come to a feeder any placed I’ve lived so it’s not too much of a disappointment….not much to do today…just the two bike rides and lots of soccer and races but that will be it…I do need to make a pizza for lunch to use up the veggies before they spoil then back to leftovers for dinner…I think I need to up the calories a bit since I have been under 1500 cals for weeks now and I don’t think that is enough….we’ll see….more later….
Bill Barr is the most corrupt AG in history…
Well…if you didn’t already know that Bill Barr was the most corrupt AG in US history, you just need to look at his actions from yesterday night when he tried to fire the US attorney from the SDNY, but the US. A, Berman wasn’t buying it and didn’t even know what Barr had done until he saw a press release from Barr saying Berman had “resigned” and he was going to appoint a crony of his who had never tried a case in court…one little problem is that since Berman was appointed by the district court, he can only be replaced by an attorney who is confirmed by the senate…something that will take time and it appears that Barr thinks they don’t have time to waste…I wonder why that would be? Could it be that there are indictments being prepared for Rudy Giuliani just like they were for his two partners who tried to extort Ukraine to fake some evidence against Joe Biden? Or could it be that the Jeffrey Epstein investigation has turned up something on the idiot trump himself? The attorney that Barr is trying to sideline released a statement saying the investigations will continue and he will not bow to the pressure coming from Barr…and will stay in his job until the law is followed to replace him….remember that this district is the one that is charged with investigating all of trump’s criminality when he was in NYC, but I don’t understand why this is being attempted with only 5 months til the election….is there something that bad coming out of the SDNY? Look, everyone thinks that Barr is so smart but with just a few months left in his term, why is he exposing himself to obstruction of justice charges when trump loses in November? Just because the administration changes, it’s not a free pass for crimes committed during it and when we take all three branches of government in November, you can bet Barr is going to be called to testify to the house just as soon as Biden is sworn in…and he will be arrested and forced to come if he refuses since he won’t have the most corrupt president in our history to protect him….this reeks of stupidity but stupidity is the hallmark of trump’s cronies so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised…tick tock Barr…
June 20th
Well….not going to do that again…had cocktails last night and my foot hurts this morning…so, I guess I’ll just put the stuff away for the near future and go a couple of weeks until the next time…and I slept pretty crappy too, but I think that’s from the heat more than anything else….will probably move my fan into the bedroom tonight just to have a little breeze…needless to say, I tossed and turned all night and now my ribs hurt again but in the back and not the front where I injured them a few weeks back…cripes….I was going to work on the front door today but I had a thought that the yellow I was going to paint it might not be the color I want and may paint it the same dark brown as the trim so it will match the porch ceiling…might be a little classy looking so I need to think about that for a couple of days…I wonder if I could use the new sprayer to do it? Too much to think about right now….not much to do today…BPL soccer is back but I still need to get two rides in today so I’ll need to get out for the first one by 7 so that gives me 20 minutes to have my coffee…will have to watch soccer in between the rides today but I’m not too motivated right now…I wonder when it’s going to rain so I can take a day off the bike? More later…
Finally….
Well…you know I’ve been disappointed that I have had flower drop syndrome on my tomato plants and I have lost probably 20 blossoms or so over the 4 oldest plants…that are all of the same strain called celebration and I was getting to the point that I didn’t expect to get any tomatoes at all off them…but just today, finally, I have three small tomatoes on blossoms that didn’t turn yellow and fall off…so I’ll get at least three tomatoes for all the work on the garden so far…yeah, that’s a little bit defeatist but starting them early downstairs and all the work that entailed hasn’t done what I expected it to do…and that is give me ripe tomatoes by the end of July….oh,well…but, I do have tiny little jalpenos on a few of the plants and my beans flowered today so that is cool…and I have one green pepper plant that is flowering but those have turned out to be the hardest plants to get to make fruit…I do have a green pepper that I am using to make pizza that I am going to take the seeds and plant them this weekend in the only remaining place in the garden…oh, my cukes are also starting to flower so it looks like I may have some veggies by the end of next month….and I have the other strain called better boy that are also full sized tomatoes that have finally taken off and have started to flower…they don’t look like the blossom stems are yellowing so I may get quite a few off those plants…and I got frustrated with getting my cherry tomatoes to grow after I transplanted them outside so I dumped a bunch of seeds in a hole and now I have another 10 plants that have come up but I’m not sure if any of them will grow big enough to give me fruit…but, I should get a few with almost 15 plants out there…I may be driving people nuts in August with way too many veggies but that is a good thing…my neighbors will probably get sick of me giving them away…all this is a trial run for when I buy my own house and put in a garden there…I did forget to plant herbs so that will be part of the plan for the next garden…and sunflowers, lots of sunflowers…the 19 I have in the back yard just don’t seem to be enough…and some of them are over 3 feet tall now and it is cool to watch them follow the sun…so, it looks like I am going to have some fresh veggies this year and that makes me happy…
There’s going to be a new hotspot…
Well….I think I bitched about this before but it came back to me riding through the parking lot for John Ball park this morning…I really think the park is going to be a new hotspot for the coronavirus looking at the hundred or so people who were in the parking lot today and none of them were wearing masks…and the lots were full to overflow so how are they doing social distancing? I was going to write about how well the people of Michigan have done with wearing masks and doing everything else to help control the virus they have been asked…enough to where Michigan is one of three states who are in the green for new infections and deaths…but I think this has made people complacent…especially in this very red portion of the state that still supports the idiot trump and have sent reps to the state government who have done everything they can to keep our governor from protecting the people of this state under the guise of “freedum” or some such nonsense….I surely hope I’m wrong and there is not enough virus here to cause a spike…but, all across the country we are seeing cases explode when things “open” so I think that is probably wishful thinking….
June 19th
Well….another 5:20 morning today but I crashed out at 10 last night so that was okay…and I got my back to start cracking yesterday which I hope will help the swelling in my foot as it has before…..it’s looking better but the price of 5 days with no cocktails and lots of boredom is a pretty high price to pay…okay, that made me laugh…no, it’s not…it’s saved me money and I feel a lot better so it’s a win to be smart for a change….I’m still trying to figure out my fly infestation from Wed…had more than a hundred flies that I killed in here but only 2 yesterday and that is a relief…we’ll see about today….looks like I’m going to be out on the bike early today with getting up early and I kind of like that…but there are more and more people out on the trail and that is getting annoying…I see many more bikers out there and I guess there is a bike shortage along with tires and tubes since no one saw this pandemic coming and with the trails being one of the only places that you can get out of the house safely people are making them less safe…oh, well…didn’t get much done yesterday but work on the lawn and the garden but I am going to start on the front door today…found out that the 4 inch flap discs that I got for 99 cents at HF fit my 4 1/2 in grinder so that will make short work of the peeling paint….there are some chunks out of the door that need to be repaired too, but I’m not sure what to use yet…might get a small can of waterproof wood filler to use since I think the plaster I have been using indoors won’t hold up even when painted…but it is protected by the porch so maybe it will…I do need to pay bills today and try to get my address changed for my license plates which I don’t understand since I changed the address on my driver’s license and you would think that it would propagate through the system…oh, well…more later….
“I guess the supreme court doesn’t like me”
Well….that statement just about sums up how the idiot trump sees the entire world…whether people like him or not is the only important thing to him, not that DACA recipients can now stay in the US, not that California can declare itself a sanctuary state, not that the second amendment can be restricted just like every other amendment to the constitution, and not that our LGBTQ friends and neighbors have the same rights as the rest of us…all things that trump and his racist cronies argued against that were just ruled by the court…but the takeaway that trump gets from this smackdown is that “the supreme court doesn’t like me”….typical narcissist thinking and revealing that everything is about trump…not the law, not rights of LBGTQ Americans, not the racist bullshit that spews out of trump every day…but it is just about if people like him or not…and shows how frickin needy this asshole is….and lays bare his worldview that everything revolves around him…not the 800,000 DACA recipients who now can breathe a sigh of relief after wondering for months if today is the day that ICE is going to show up and put them on a plane for a country they have never lived in. I am really surprised that the court ruled that trump can’t deport DACA recipients today…I expected that they would side with trump and his racist cronies and allow all of these people to be rounded up and arrested….but trump losing 4 cases this week made me so damn happy…not that trump lost, but that the right decisions were handed down and it made this country better…something that idiot boy can never say…
June 18th
Well…I guess I should have expected that I would have a crappy night of sleep again at some time and last night was it…was up so many times I wonder why I even went to bed…and I am sore everywhere again from all the tossing and turning…but, I have an ankle on my right leg again and that is small progress but progress and I’ll take it…and my foot is not too sore so I’m going to stop the medication today and just go with ibuprofen and that will help the pain everywhere….the poison oak on my left arm seems to have plateaued and it still looks pretty ugly but it doesn’t itch right now so I am hoping for some healing to start soon…cripes…I guess this is what it looks like when you get old…didn’t get a lot done yesterday with trying to nurse the foot but I am going to get back at it today and start working on the front of the house…have an idea what I want to do with the overgrown shrubs out there but I just need to get on it…and I think I may need to mow today too, but I’m not going to start on that until after a bike ride…and some more coffee first….my beans started to flower yesterday so at least I’ll have beans and jalapenos out of the gardens….I had one of the sunflowers out back propped up with a stick and some braided string but the sparrows really wanted that string and shredded it for nesting I guess….I wonder if I should just cut some string and spread it across the back yard for them to use? More later….
Darn….
Well…I am a little frustrated with the progress that my foot is making…it’s been 4 days without and cocktails or any salt and it is still swollen…but, the red color is going away so I guess that’s something…and I haven’t been able to do much around here since being on my feet makes my toe hurt and swells the foot even more so that just adds to the frustration….I have to get out to depot to get the paint I need to do the dormer and I need to figure out how to get the awning over the side door down so I can get the ladder up to get to the front of it and the trim around the windows…I think I’ll try the new sprayer on the side of the garage first so I can fine tune it before I go climbing up on the roof….had to take the screen door on the side of the house apart today since I noticed that the screen and the storm glass that opens and closes were bent all to hell and the spring loaded latches had stopped working…wonder why I never noticed it before? I think that may have been the way all of the damn flies were getting in…have been fighting them for the past couple of days and must have killed a hundred of them in here…and I also sealed up the air intake for the furnace and water heater since it is open without a flap to close it off and flies always find a way in…did I say I was frustrated? At least the bike rides went well today and I got the grocery runs in….only spent 30 bucks…it’s amazing how cheap it is when you don’t buy cocktail materials….
Bolton’s book has started to drop…
Well….even with the idiot trump’s totally corrupt justice department and Bill Barr suing him to prevent the release of excerpts from John Bolton’s tell all book on the inside workings of the trump crime administration, I’m not sure how I feel about Bolton snubbing the congress during impeachment to keep his info close so he could profit off it instead of protecting the country. I am going to relish the dribs and drabs that are going to continue to come out from now until the election…like the first revelation that idiot boy asked XI of China to help him in his 2020 re-election campaign…yep, having Russia install him in 2016 worked so well that now he is asking China to do the same thing…and what do we hear from the repubs in the senate after the sham trial where they didn’t even look into any of the evidence? Nothing but the biggest crickets you’ve ever heard…and them actually running away from reporters so they don’t have to answer why the kept this criminal in office. Oh, and the quid pro quo from the Ukraine corruption? It seems that it is trump’s go to ask since he did the same thing with Xi, asking him to buy American crops to help him win our farm states again…I wonder what he was willing to give Xi for this help? Look, I hate John Bolton with a passion since he could have faithfully executed the oath he took to protect the constitution but he didn’t do one damn thing other than set himself up to profit from his dereliction of duty…and saddled us with trump and his other minions who have killed 117,000 Americans…all he had to do was go to the congress and testify…but I guess making millions for himself is worth more than a gutted economy and hundreds of thousands of Americans dead…so FU Bolton….you fit right in with the rest of the repubs…