The Clean up Continues

Another cool morning here in Central PA.  The outside temp was 59 (F) when I got up.  That's really good sleeping weather.  We have another day of abundant sunshine scheduled.  According to the long range forecast this weather should be sticking around for the next 2 weeks.  What isn't in the forecast is rain.  This means I'll be watering my garden.

If you're wondering how my raised bed garden survived that storm we had last Saturday, the answer is fine.  Except for one tomato plant that blew over, I's suspecting it's a goner. 

Much yard cleanup was done yesterday.  As I'd mentioned before, I did wear my heart rate monitor.  Total work time was 1 hour and 15 minutes.  The last half hour I was averaging 130 beats per minute, burned 415 calories.  Everything was going well until my chainsaw broke.  Damn.  I could probably have spent some time trying to fix it, but chose instead to order another with same day delivery from the orange retailer I work for.  Well, the new saw was never delivered.  I checked before I went to bed and saw that delivery had been scheduled to between 6 AM and 8 PM today, so I cancelled.  They had over 5 hours to get it delivered and failed.  What they want you to do is pay for an expedited delivery with the guarantee that your purchase will arrive in 3 hours or less.  

Anyway, my yard went from looking like this:

to this:

So, the Republicans pushed through a piece of legislature yesterday that would stop members of Congress from buying stock while they were in office, however, attached to that bill was Orangie's precious SAVE Act.  Eight Democrats voted for this bill.  I don't doubt that they did this because they wanted to be on the record as ending insider trading, and because they know there are not enough votes in the Senate to get it passed.  These 8 congressmen failed to realize that no one was going to commend them for voting against insider trading.  Nope.  Now they're being damned for helping the SAVE Act advance to the Senate.  They failed to understand that in the scope of things, Orangie's extreme voter regulations are a far more serious problem for America and Democracy than trading stocks on Wall Street.

Am I the only one who believes Jim Jordan should be arrested and tried for treason?

The Odyssey

Holy Moley!  Our over night temps dropped down to 69 (F).  Our afternoon high will be topping off in the low to mid 80s (F).  That's nice.  The humidity has dropped as well.  Here we are, a month into summer, normally the beginning of the hottest time of the year, and we're early June comfortable.  Believe me, this is good chainsaw weather.

I talked to my sister yesterday, and when I told her about the limbs and branches in my backyard, she said, "don't use a chainsaw," and then laughed.  She was quoting my brother.  He's terrified I'm going to cut off an arm or a leg.  He doesn't understand that I've used one for years.  For those of you who don't know, I have a number of large trees around my house.  Back when Gertie was alive, I had a 100 foot cherry tree come down.  Believe me, I was looking out the dining room window when that baby fell.  It went from vertical to horizontal in a second, taking out 30 feet of my fence.  That's when I got my first chainsaw.  Truthfully, I think my brother's practicing a age discrimination, thinking that I'm too old.  Hahaha.

Anyway, I was chatting with my trainer yesterday afternoon and told him I was thinking of using my heart rate monitor while I was sawing away today.  He was intrigued.  How does cutting up branches and limbs compare to either a workout or cardio?  So, I'm going to be monitoring myself.

And I went to see The Odyssey last evening.  I was curious how Christopher Nolan was going to handle the story, was it going to be straightforward, linear, or was he going to play with the timeline.  Luckily, he played with the timeline.  Every performance is solid.  It was nice seeing Tom Holland playing a young man for a change.  Is this movie woke?  Damn right!  Zeus's Law: treat strangers with kindness and consideration, you never know, one of them might be a god in disguise.  It's a code of ethics so many have no problem breaking.  Oh, and if you get the chance, see it on a really big screen.

And Holey Moley number 2!  Kegbreath Hegseth went to Congress yesterday to ask for more money to throw away on Orangie's war with Iran and got his ass handed to him.  His own words were used publicly mock him.  Jon Ossoff was spectacular.  Watching this smarmy assed sycophant being humiliated was simply wonderful.  When asked if a statement he'd made, 4 months ago, or 3 weeks ago, or even 3 days after Orangie started his war was true or false, Keggie simply repeated talking points.  At one point, after he brought up Biden, he was called a failure.  This is true.  The man's a frigging idiot.