My Aunt is going to be 90

 Wednesday has arrived.  Sunshine is again in store.  Highs are also predicted to be in the upper 60s (F).  I will have no problem handling today.  They're predicting full-on sunshine for tomorrow.  Temps will be lower, but that's okay.  This is Autumn, after all.  In the coming week temps are supposed to climb back up into the 70s (F).  Days are supposed to be sunny, and all the rain will be staying to the south of us.

I had lunch with my cousin and her husband yesterday.  I was surprised to see they had 2 Trump signs in their yard when I arrived at their house.  I shouldn't  have been.  They're both religious; they had planned to go to Israel but the Hamas attack of October 7 put an end to those plans.  Politics stayed out of the conversation.  She and her husband are both older than me, so any earthly attempt at discussion would have been doomed to failure.

We went to see my aunt Lois, who will be turning 90 on October 19.  She has an apartment in a senior living facility and it's very nice: 4 rooms, including a bathroom with a walk-in shower.  She has a full kitchen with a large serving counter opening into the living room.  We paid $2700 a month for a studio apartment for my mom, so she must be paying at least $6000.  She has some mobility issues, but her mind is still strong.  It's so much fun talking to her, hearing about the past.  We called my great grandmother on my grandmother's side of the family Grandma Lee.  Lois told us that when she and my dad were young, they called her Grandma New York, not only because she lived in New York City, but because her last name kept changing; she seemed to have a habit of marrying and divorcing men.  Whatever wild streak we have running in our family must have come from her.

And yes, my dahlias are still blooming.

And as must be expected, more dirt came out yesterday regarding the Orange Anus.  No one should be surprised if he took top secret British Naval intelligence with him to Mar a Lago, he has never had a problem screwing people, or countries over.  The fact that America was desperate for Covid testing and he secretly sent them to his blow bro Vlad?  No surprise there.  He will try and tear the country apart to please Putin.  He will fail.  Our job is to make sure he doesn't get the chance to run away, he is spinless, after all, and will run.  I don't doubt plans have already been set in place.  I suspect he already knows he's going to lose.  His job is not to win, but to create chaos.  Putin will reward him for the disruption he's going to cause.  This is why he can't run away.  He needs to pay the consequences.

Release Day

 Yesterday was nice and sunny, and by that I mean the temps topped 70 (F).  There was a bit of a breeze in the air, but nothing to complain about.  Temps are supposed to coast back down into the more seasonal range.  I can deal with that.  We've basically got a month and a couple of days until we are officially in spring.  Then we'll be able to say "what a strangely warm winter we've had."

I had lunch with my cousin Robin and her husband yesterday. I'm the baby of the bunch by 3 months.  Being the baby can be good when you're as old as we are.  Afterwards, I stopped in to see my Aunt Lois.  She reminded me she's 88.  The Snyder side of the family has always been long lived.  We laughed at our old memories... and they are old.  Both of my sets of grandparents were from a small town named Pine Grove and, unlike the rest of my cousins, I spent much of my summer off from school with them.  It was a good visit.

Editor number 2 has The Body Under Ice.  Later this morning, after my treadmill time, I want to do another little video for YouTube.  They're fun, too,.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute released an 86 minute video of the Titanic.  There is no narration, but there music, just the footage that was shot the first time they sent a camera down in 1986.  The ship is continually falling apart, and will not be a long term memorial for those who died.  I think that's what people though was going to happen.  There are frequent trips down to see the wreckage and apparently souvenirs are being taken.  Honestly, I have no problem with that.

Today is Release Day.  In other words, some of the Grand Jury report on Trump's Atlanta interference is going to be released to the public, i.e. the prologue and the conclusion.  Oh, and there's a bit about the liars.  You know?  Those people who swore to tell the truth and then lied.  I do believe the reason the judge decided to have Release Day was an incentive for Fani to speed up the action, another way to tell her it's time to either indict or get off the pot, so to speak.

And evidently a 3rd Trump attorney has been forced to testify in Jack Smith's investigation.  These attorney's are basically being treated as hostile witnesses.  If they get caught lying, they can be prosecuted.  We all know that by working for Trump, lying is second nature to them.