Shattered Republicans

 Our outside temp is 39 (F).  It went up 1 degree since I got up this morning.  The forecasters are saying that it will climb into the mid 50s (F), that is until the showers arrive.  We also had some fleeting sunshine, that has since fled before the approaching cloud cover.  Temps tomorrow will be a bit on the cooler side, and this upcoming week our daily highs are predicted to be in the 40s (F), but than we've had forecasts like this before and they've all ended up warmer than expected.

Yesterday turned out to be pretty boring.  No excitement here.  I did drive over to Community Aid to buy a new pair of work pants.  Fridays are apparently Mennonite day, so I was caught up in the bustle of a lot of women wearing their coverings and calf length dresses, and lots of babies in strollers.  They're very nice people, but Holy Crap there were so many of them.  Just like Tuesdays, I now know Fridays are to be avoided.  Tuesdays are senior citizen days, and believe me wading through a crowd of browsing seniors pausing, and picking up a hanger to carefully peruse a shirt, or a pair of pants can be nerve shattering.

I did get a ride in though I have to admit it turned out to be one of the most boring rides I've ever had.  After 8 miles I decided I'd had enough and stopped.

Howie's running around with an ice cube that dropped on the floor.  It will be his most favorite toy until it melts, and then he'll go back to his previous most favorite toy, the lime green throwy thing  that squeaks.

And, in case you missed it, Orangie did the Taco Twist last night and dropped the tariffs on a lot of food stuffs because his tariffs were failing.  His reversal made for big headlines this morning.  

As many wise men haven noted this morning, this was curtail the inflation that so many people are pissed about.  How much will prices drop?  A bit.  Anyone who thinks that they're going to go back to what they were before the Orange Effect, must be a member of a Cult.  Supermarkets might drop their prices a bit, most consumers will not notice that they're still paying more than they had been.  

And while this is temporarily making the news, it is in now way going to take the American publics attention away from the Epstein Files.  That dam is breaking.  Some think that Republican congressmen have finally found their backbone, not me.  All those Republicans who suddenly sign on to the discharge have been scared shitless by the Blue Tsunami.  These idiots desperately wanted to believe Orangie's lies, that vast numbers of Americans loved him.  That wave shattered that belief into brittle, little splinters that carved a bit of the truth into their thin skin.  For the GOP to survive at all, Republican Congressmen and Senators will have to go through a cleansing acid bath several times.  By the time Epstein shit has passed anyone even remotely associated with Orangie will either be in jail, or will have exiled themselves to mother Russia.

From the first French Grand Prix

Today is Friday and it is the 3rd day of 6 days in a row.  I didn't sleep well last night, kept wondering if what I was feeling in my lower groin could be classified as pain, or just pressure.  Mostly, it's just pressure because everything being held back by my abdominal muscles is trying to push a way out through the bulge, which is in my lower groin, just about as far down as you can go.  This is what I can look forward to for at least 19 more days.  Shit.
Anyway, since I can't go to the gym and my Cardio is limited to gentle peddling on my bike, I've decided to do a little work in my dinning room.  This morning the drapes came down.

That's right, I have a lot of windows, and since I also have a southern exposure on that side of the house, lots and lots of sunlight all year round.  In the winter, with the leaves off of the trees, the brightness is almost unearthly.  At one point there was a window seat there, but at some time in my homes 112 year history someone thought it would be a good idea to get rid of it.  This is fine because it adds square footage to the dinning room.
First off, the raspberry trim is going to go, replaced by Toasted Sesame, the same color as the trim in the living room.  Oh, and the boarder along the ceiling is going to go.  In my crazier, younger years, I thought grapes and grape leaves would go well with the color of the trim... not so much now.  And that coat rack on the left?  That's going to be history.  I went through my coat closet and sent a lot of my jackets and coats to Community Aid so there's plenty of space.
To the right of the futon you'll see the curving top of an old, wooden hat box.  Think of it as an antique.  I don't know when it was made, but it was originally used by a woman who could afford to wear one of those large hats popular in the early 1900's.  There are several inked stamps on the lid, mostly in German, with dates.  One of the dates you can read is from the First French Grand Prix, which means this hatbox is most likely older than my house.
Isn't life amazing?