To Chip or Not?

This morning wasn't as cool as yesterday.  Our overnight low stayed in the lower 60s (F).  This is summer, after all.  For the next week, at least, daily highs will be hovering in the low to mid 80s (F).  That's fine with me.  We might get a little rain on Monday, but the odds are 50-50.

Yesterday was a somewhat busy day.  There was yard cleanup.  My fence is now cleared of branches and luckily the damage could have been worse.  The top supporting bar has a new angle, but is still standing.  I still have a ten foot limb in my backyard, though that should be gone by sometime on Tuesday.  I also began tackling the limb on the other side of the fence.  Limb is the wrong word, to be more precise, I have a tree top lying there.  That sucker's going to be a challenge.  Also, I've been thinking of buying a wood chipper.  The thought of renting one had also occurred to me, until I saw the cost:  $200 for 4 hours, almost $600 for a day.  I can buy one that chops branches up to 2 inches in diameter for $194.  I'll have to go out and measure the diameter of the branches.

Beside the yard cleanup and getting my lawn mowed, yesterday was sort of a meh day.  Because I was outside so much, I moved my upper body workout to this morning.  

My Roma tomatoes are beginning to turn red.  I have 2 Big Boy plants, one has tomatoes, the other has zilch, and my eggplant has.... eggplants.

The rescheduled White House Correspondents Association (or whatever you want to call this group) was last evening.  Here's a pic from Al Jazeera.

I was too busy playing Balder's Gate 3 to pay any attention as to what was happening on social media.  Not that I missed anything.  Orangie, who likes to think of himself as the ultimate showman held a small rally that, without his paid cultists, left the room embarrassingly silent.  While cabinet members and their staff laughed because this is what sycophants do, the rest of the correspondents showed Orange how little he is appreciated.  Even the Washington post's leading headline was about his insult laden speech, and that it drew stunned silence.  As a result, he will lie today.  Are the bells beginning to toll for the Orange Anus?  Stay tuned.

 

Trump's Thai Restaurant

Good morning world!  We have another comfortably sunny day on tap here in Central PA.  Our outside time is 57 (F).  Our high this afternoon will once again be in the low 80s (F).  If you want my opinion, this is perfect summer weather.  Without the cloying humidity and stinking hot temps, working outside is fine, and believe me, I have been working outside.

To be honest, when I walked out my back door last Sunday morning and saw what Saturday night's storm had gifted me, I stood there for a second, and then said, "Well, fuck."  Then I went to work... and bought a chainsaw.  I'd had one, but threw it out about 2 years ago because it needed work.  Since I worked on Monday, I couldn't start the actual cleanup process until Tuesday.  To my surprised what I thought was going to be a daunting task turned out to be rather invigorating.  There is some joy in looking at a branch, deciding where to make the cut, and then making the cut, and then seeing that cut did exactly what it was intended to do.  I did have some serious soreness across my back Tuesday night, but other than that I feel really well.  While I do workout, this is not the same thing.  This is physical labor, and you might find this difficult to believe, but it actually feels good to work and accomplish something.

I'm sitting here listening to Brahms Serenade No 1 in D, Scherzo.  For those who don't know, this is what Carey Murgatroyd played for Margaret Stanley back in 1982.  For those who do, is it any wonder she was nearly smitten.

And for those who haven't seen some of the changes the Orange Anus is doing to the White House, here's an example.  As someone else said, he appears to be doing a very good job at designing a Thai restaurant.  Let's be honest, his tastes have always been Trashy Tacky.

Brent crude oil is again over $100 a barrel.  This is what happens when your put an imbecile in the White House.  He epitomizes the Republican "shut up, we're in charge," style of governing.  When someone doesn't shut up and fights back, he is dumbfounded.  He doesn't even ask "how can this be?"  Nope, that's never going to happen.  His reaction, like the GOP's, is to get angry and pile threat upon threat, upon threat.  Now the Houthis are involved... and the conflict grows.  And prices will continue to go up because how could a man with 8 bankruptcies be wrong?  On top of this he has, for a small bribe, decided to allow Saudi Arabia, a country actively involved in Islamic terrorism, to begin enriching uranium.  Honestly, I don't doubt that in the future, historians are going to look back at Orangie and wonder why he just didn't stick to designing Thai restaurants.