Wine Time

 Well, here it is, Hump Day, or, as I like to call it, the middle of the week.  The weather is almost glorious.  Temps are going to be up into the mid 70s (F) again today, and tomorrow as well.  Sunshine is abounding.  We have the same forecast for tomorrow, and... damn, I have to work.  That means I'll need to get more yardwork done today.  Of course, there's always Friday.

An yesterday was a good day.  Much was done, including a mowing of the verge, that's my lawn.  Two loads of laundry were washed and hung out on my drying rack to dry.  I planted the bean sprouts and Howie immediately dug 3 of them up.  He finds running around with them in his mouth quate enjoyable for some reason.  He's back to eating his dogfood. This is a good thing.

New neighbors moved into the big apartment on the hill to my right, Cathy and  John.  They are in their mid 50s and so far seem nice.  Chatty.  She likes to sit on their deck and talk on the phone, loudly.  This means I can hear her conversations.  Yesterday she was talking to her mom about meds.  They spent at least 5 minutes talking about Dristan, though they never mentioned if they meant the pills or the nasal spray.  Evidently her father, who seems to have died, preferred Dristan to everything else.

And my box of Josh Cellars wine arrived yesterday.  Someone asked me if Eli and Max would drink this wine.  The answer is most definitely.

In case you have heard yet, the Orange Anus is going to substantially drop the tariffs against China.  That's right, obviously the Art of the Deal for him is caving.  I guess he must not have been holding the right cards.  Is it me, or does it seem as though he's been doing that a lot here lately?  Remember how he was going to broker a truce in the Ukraine on day one?  Now?  This phony is pulling out of the negotiations, probably because no one kissed his ass the way he'd been expecting.  

Isn't it interesting how the Pope died and suddenly the movie Conclave has become extremely popular?  I saw it in the theater and was hoping it would win the Oscar for best film.  

And, in case you missed it, Bimbo Bondi held a press conference regarding the Bias Against Christianity bone Trump is throwing to the Evangelicals.  Probably her least surprising statement was that the FBI was investigating several Catholic parishes because "there's so much crime there."  If you remember back when this Christianity hokey pokey was announced, I said they'd go after the Catholics.  I'm wondering how Sammy Alito's feeling now that they're pissing in his own, personal cup of wine?

Scorpio!

 Well, hello November!  For those unfamiliar with the Zodiac, Scorpios are in full swing.  I am, as you should have guessed, a Scorpio.  The sign is considered to be the most powerful, followed by Leo.  Scorpios are a member of the water sign group, along with Cancer the Crab and Pisces the Fish.  And, while we are emotional and sentimental at times, we also have a stinger, and believe me, we do know how to sting.

Yesterday was one of those "I should have done more but didn't" sort of days.  Howie and I did some lawn work, but not nearly as much as could have been done.  I did some cleaning, but just some.  I wrote, but only around 300 words.  I took a few naps, but none of them were nearly long enough.  I don't know.  Perhaps it was because yesterday was Halloween and I knew that Trick or Treaters would be prowling the neighborhood.  Howie and I were outside when a few went by, and they were all young.

My new neighbors took their daughter down to Lancaster so she could do her Tricker or Treating there.  She's probably 13 or so, and is a little too old to hang with the little kids that hit my neighborhood.  They've been living in the house for a little over a year.  The last time I talked to her, she said they were waiting to see how well their son does in college, implying they might be moving back to Lancaster.  She did tell me that they know the house needs a new roof and they can't afford to put one on, so who knows what they're going to do.  They may try to sell.  They've built up a tiny bit of equity, but not much.

Howie can climb halfway up the stair case.  In another 2 weeks they will no longer be an obstacle for him.

Just in case you missed it, the Orange Anus is suing CBS for a lot of money.  None of the Main Stream Media groups that I scanned this morning were mentioning it, which is not good for Orangie.  In the past, this sort of gimmicky law suit were garner him headlines, no longer.  The bold print headline on NBC is Orangie telling Tucker Carlson that Liz Cheney might think differently if she were standing in front of a firing squad.  The CBS lawsuit would have been a much better headline for him.  Five days before the election and he's making news by threatening people with firing squads.  And his campaign believes this is smart?  

Early voting is going well.  While no one knows who's voted for who, we do know that women are outvoting men by a decent percentage.  This is not a good sign.  We know that a lot of people who have never voted before in their lives are voting this year.  A heavy turnout does not favor Republicans.

And finally, we have Elon Musk, who so desperately wants to be president of the United States, who wants to be a petty dictator.  Walz said it best.  He's a dipshit.  The nerd from Hell who's always had to buy his way into the popularity club he so terribly wants to run.  His incompetence becomes more and more apparent as the days go by.

Grumpy Trumpy

 So, when my alarm clock went off this morning, I shut it off and went back to sleep, until 0700.  That's so late for me?  Of course, I woke up at 0238 and began researching plumbing / drainage on my computer.  After finding out what I wanted to know, I climbed back in bed.  This is what happens when you do the plumbing yourself.

The weather yesterday was nice, with the temps climbing up into the mid 80s (F), of course, people being people, I did hear from several customers that it was sooo hot outside.  A month ago they'd have been calling it a wonderful day, but the instant we rolled into October 80 (F) and above became too hot.  Today's temps are going to be a repeat of yesterdays, with tomorrow being slightly cooler.  I'm fine with that.  My Central Air is off for the year and the ceiling fan in the bedroom works fine.

My new neighbors moved in yesterday.  The real estate agent I talked to was wrong when she told me they were a young couple just starting out, that is unless by young she meant early 40s.  The couple I saw a few months back with the 2 teenage kids?  They're the ones who bought the house.  They were real chatty.  Seemed nice from the first impression.  So far they've been quiet.  My parents moved when I was a teenager in order to upgrade houses and I can tell you, having to make new friends while going through puberty is not the best thing to force upon an adolescent.

And, of course, I had to save this picture from yesterday:  Grumpy Trumpy!

I remember "nay-sayers" whining that this was never going to happen.  Impatience is not a virtue.  From my understanding, the Orange Anus is even more grumpier than usual because his legal team, for some reason known only to them, chose not to have a jury decide guilt.  Perhaps they gambled on getting a lenient judge, or perhaps Grumpy told them that no sitting judge would ever convict an ex-president.  Either way, his organization was found guilty and now he has to sit through the penalty phase.  From what I've been reading, appeals are useless during this phase.  The Trump organization is going to be dismantled.  Stop cheering!  This is just the beginning.

And that dumb ass Matty Gaetz began the process to oust Kev McCarthy.  People are wondering if the Democrats are going to step in and save his ass.  Nope.  The demands they will ask in order to get them to save Kev will be too great for any Republican to bear, so they will let this Republican shit show continue.  Believe me, very shortly, the GOP is going to be screaming three-ring circus!