Surprise

 Well, we started off the day with a rightly cool November morning with the temp sitting down at a frosty 31 (F).  For those of you on the Celsius gauge, that 0.  Our high today will be in the mid 50s (F).

Most of the leaves are still on the trees, and in my neck of the woods, so to speak, they didn't really change color.  Some of those on the maple trees turned yellow, but mostly they just stayed green, except for the Gingko.  They are still in the process of turning yellow, though they have started to fall.

Yesterday was one of those meh days.  I spread out the 5 bags of top soil I bought.  More is needed, so I'll leave early for work and pick up another 5.  I have a lot of pea gravel that needs to be covered and Howie has developed the bad habit of trying to chew them.  Once his puppy teething stage has passed, I doubt if that will be a problem.  This means I've got another 3 months to make sure he doesn't accidently swallow any.

A long time ago, I worked for Marriott, and last night had dinner with some of the people who were working there when I was there.  It was... interesting.  This was the second time I've gotten together with them.  Most of them are nice, however there's a reason I didn't stay in contact with a large majority of them, they simply that interesting.  They spent a lot of time reminiscing about people I didn't work with and didn't know.  There was little talk of what they are doing now.  I find it sad that for many of them, that was the high point of their lives.

I ordered a new Garmin watch because the one I have is 4 years old, and prices are going to go up, probably a lot.  Well, it was kind of not delivered yesterday.  I came home from dinner to find a box on my porch, but it was my neighbor's green food supplemental vitamins.  Since she goes to bed at 5 PM to get up for work at 3 AM, I didn't know if she had my watch or not.  I sent her a text, and this morning the watch that should have been delivered to me was sitting on my porch.  Because this was a serious delivery issue, I filed a complaint and a 2nd watch will be delivered tomorrow.  I will return that one.  

Here's a Gingko sunrise.

And wasn't yesterday filled with surprises.  Trump wanted to fill his cabinet without any confirmation hearings, thankfully, the Senate was smart enough to shoot that down, otherwise our Secretary of Defense would be a Fox Entertainment Anchor.  Hopefully, this will not change, and the Republicans holding the majority in the Senate will not cave to his will.  If they do, then I'm betting we have officially entered the Dark Ages.  For those who haven't realized it yet, he is going to give Putin his every wish, and every one of those wishes will be at our expense.  Fasten your seatbelts, these turbulents are going to be rough as hell.