Well…I finally got out to do the first pass at the snow around 2 this afternoon and it took me an hour just to do the walks and in front of my garage door…had knee high drifts all the way to the garage, on the east side of the house, and along the front of both lots…and we are forecast to get a foot more before it’s over at 10am Thursday…needless to say, I won’t be going anywhere for a week or so and that means cancelling a dentist and doctor appointment that are scheduled for Friday and Monday…oh, well…this is by far the most snow we’ve had out here in the four years I’ve lived here and I really hope it stops soon…it’s wearing me out…I wonder how many calories an hour of hard shoveling burns? Okay, just looked it up and it says 600 calories…so that’s cool…
Dragging grandmothers out of churches…
Well…it appears that the orange idiot is keeping one of his campaign promises to deport 12 million people…and he sent his ICE thugs in churches, schools, and hospitals to do it…and yes, that means he sent those thugs in to check everyone’s papers even though it’s unconstitutional to do so…there is no law that says you have to have ID on you and the courts have specifically said you don’t…so now you can guess what is going to happen…US citizens are going to get locked up with no due process since that’s how they treat undocumented immigrants…the first photos from these raids show exactly that they did drag one grandmother out of a church and another one was being treated at a hospital when the ICE agents dragged her right out of the emergency room…this is what you voted for trump voters…and you’d better have ID on you at all times or you’ll be in the idiot trump’s gulags, too…I sure hope it happens to all of you morons…geez…
January 22nd
Well…up and down all night and out of bed at 5:37 anticipating the winter storm and 8-12 inches of snow today…I know I’ve lived in Michigan my whole life and snow is part of it but I just need a break…at least it’s all the way up to 12 degrees instead of single digits right now…my friend T spent the night in her mom’s hospital room anticipating the end after 5 years of dementia care and I feel for her…it’s worn her out and I hope she can find some peace soon…so my whining about snow seems pretty small to me and I find I’m doing that a lot lately….hmmm…I did have leftover whole bean coffee this morning and it’s nice to have to start the day…but I’ll be changing over to drip for the next cup….think I’m going to grind beans for the next pot of drip on Friday….need to do some meal planning today to figure out what ingredients I have and what they will make…pasta and garlic bread and some more masala along with the container of ham soup I took out of the freezer last night….not much to do today…have to get on the bike in 35 minutes to get three rides in but I’m really not feeling it right now…but I need to get off my butt and get moving…it was so cold in the basement yesterday that I had to wear gloves to ride indoors and that sucks…just worn out from the extreme weather…damn, I’m feeling old today…more later…
Shoveling the alley…
Well…after shoveling all the walks, my hands had moved through cold to pain so I left the driveway until I got in here and warmed up a bit…after all, it was only 3 out there still with some wind…while I was doing that shoveling, I lit up all three burners on the grill in the garage and in the half hour the shoveling took, it got up to almost 40 degrees in there so now I know that I can heat up the car to get out for the grocery run tomorrow if I want…still will connect the battery box to give the car battery some help but it should start…and it just did and made a run out to Meijers since the winter weather advisory has been upgraded to a winter storm warning for tomorrow…8-12 inches of snow and winds of 40 plus…and that means the roads here will be impassible…they are barely passable right now and I’ll never be able to get out of here til next week at the earliest….crap…I am tired of shoveling the damn alley and everything else…and just as I had the alley almost done, a plow truck came and did the rest of the alley so my timing sucked..oh, well…time to hunker down…
No more rule of law…
Well…one of the first things the criminal in chief did yesterday was to pardon all of the thugs who attacked this country on January 6th and with that one stroke, the rule of law is gone in this country…and it has been replaced by the rule of trump…that you can do anything to benefit idiot boy and there will be no consequences at all…and that is telegraphed to the thugs in his administration that they can ignore the constitution and don’t ever have to fear being held accountable…I know I’ve been railing about this and told you this was going to happen…and the both sider pundits out there clucked that he wouldn’t dare to do that, that tradition wouldn’t let him and they have been normalizing his criminal behavior since the first time the maga asses inflicted him on this country…so now I guess his minions can start shooting people on his enemies list and they will be pardoned…this is fascism, folks…plain and simple…geez…
January 21st
Well…it didn’t get down to 0 last night but it is 2 degrees out there right now and that is cold enough…and it started snowing right after I shoveled yesterday and snowed the rest of the day and it looks like we got at least 6 more inches so I’ll be out shoveling at some point today….the furnace has been running about every 10 minutes and I don’t even want to see the gas bill…it will probably be the highest since I bought this place…and we still are under a winter weather advisory until tomorrow…at least it’s warming up into the 20’s Wed and then we stay in them until the end of the month…going to have to shovel the alley…again…to be able to get out of here for the grocery run Thurs…running out of bird food and need to pick up 20 more pounds….don’t have to cook today with soup and stir fry leftovers so that will make for an easy day today but will try to get three rides in starting at around 7…went to bed early again last night and slept okay but I still feel pretty crappy today…like I do every day…got the bad news that T’s mother is in the hospital and dying…probably won’t make it through the week and I feel so bad for her…they have been close her whole life and it’s going to leave a big void…crap…more later…
“I’m too cold”
Well…never had my mp-3 player flash an “I’m too cold” warning until I used it to play some music while out shoveling the snow today…still only 5 degrees out here heading down to zero or below tonight and my hands could only take the half hour it took to clear all the snow…I did get three rides in today even though I felt like crap when I got up…pretty sure I’m not eating enough and that will continue today with having a bowl of soup and some stir fry that I’m going to make for dinner…the ham soup I made for lunch came out great and I put 3 2 quart containers in the freezer and one in the fridge…and I have another bone and some chunks of ham to make another batch when these are gone…will probably have one going until this batch is done…so now it’s 2:30 and I am done for the day other than the stir fry…
This is funny…
Well…after the asshole in chief published his “enemies” list in the past week or so and with his continued threats to prosecute the members of the January 6th committee, Joe Biden insulated all those folks from idiot boy by issuing them all preemptive pardons even though they did nothing wrong…not sure I’ve ever heard about that but good on ya, Joe…these people did great work for this country and because idiot boy is an amoral asshole who has stocked his government with people who would abuse their power this had to be done…and it was a nice little poke in the eye to the idiot, too….I’m glad Joe spent the past 6 months doing everything he could to trump proof the country from his stupidity…it’s not going to work but it’s a good try…geez…
January 20th
Well…damn, I’m not sure if I’ve felt this bad in a long time and I’m not sure why…I mean I only did two rides yesterday but maybe it was not eating enough…who knows…it’s only 6 degrees out here and it looks like we got about 4 inches of snow overnight that I will have to go out and shovel later…but it’s not getting any warmer today and the furnace is running almost constantly…ick…going to make ham soup today and I will need to find a second meal…thinking of some pasta and garlic bread since I haven’t made that in quite a while…the coffee is not working today and it really needs to if I’m going to get three rides in today…okay…it says 5 degrees at the bottom of the screen and that will be the high for the day….I wonder if this is one of those polar vortexes that the weather people talk about? Whatever, it is it’s damn cold out here…not much to do today…just making soup and getting some rides in starting in 15 minutes…can I take a day off? Nope…I am damn worn out….more later…
Days of dread…
Well…as of tomorrow, the days of dread are going to start and we will need to go into full survival mode…in the idiot boy’s first term we thought it was bad but it turned out to be worse than any of us expected…so this time we need to keep our eyes open…or maybe just cut ourselves off from the news completely since this term is going to be much much worse with the repubs rigging the legal system with incompetent judges who are the most political of any time in this country’s history….so hunker down folks it’s going to much more ugly than any of us here on the left could even imagine…geez…