The pantry

 Tuesday.  My day off.  The outside temp was a balmy 45 (F) when I got up this morning.  It will not get out of the 50s (F) today.  Tomorrow temps are supposed to be a little warmer, but it's supposed to be showery.  I think most of us here in Central PA would rather it was rainy instead of showery.  That's what happened the last time forecasters predicted showery weather.  

I worked yesterday.  It was mostly boring, so I worked on The Body in History.  I am approaching the moment of the denouement.  For those who've read my books, my books have one of two endings.  There's either a cozy mystery ending, though my cozy endings usually involve large crowds of people, as in the ending of The Body in Motion, which takes place in a Broadway theater filled will people with cameras, or action endings, as in The Body in Repose, which had a smash down chase across roofs of the French Quarter in the rain.  The Body in History will have either a cozy, or an action ending.

There are 2 old area rugs in the the weight/music/computer room that have been here for literally decades.  My previous 3 dogs, each in their own way, did a job on them.  As a result, there are pulls all over the place.  Howie is exacerbating the damage.  This morning I looked around and realized there I am going to have to move some furniture to remove them.  I'm probably going to replace them with other area rugs, the alternative would mean far more work than I want to spend.  Here is Howie on one of the rugs I'm talking about.

Trump continues to nominate people who are unqualified to cabinet level positions because he knows they will be "yes" men (no women) and far easier to control.  Evangelicals are not happy with his choice of pro-abortion Robert Kennedy.  I wonder how long it will take them to realize he was simply playing the Jesus thing in order to get their votes.  Too late, for certain.  

As most of us realize, prices are going to be going up.  In order to help offset these unwanted costs increases, I've begun buy certain food stuff in bulk, so, in an odd way, you could say that I've become somewhat of a survivalist.  Nothing extreme, mind you, but eggs when up in price, so I've purchased a container of powdered eggs.  Rice, beans, and canned vegetables.  Actually, what I'm doing is creating a sort of pantry.  For years and years people had pantries.  Since the advent of your local supermarket, pantries have for the most part disappeared.  You might want to give it a try.  Think of it as your own, private, food bank.

Trump's Trial Turns Musical

 Well, let's say hello to Friday, and my day off, and, as you might expect we have a 95% chance of cloud cover.  That 5% of sunshine, that happened around 6 AM.  No rain is in the forecast, though, that's supposed to arrive tomorrow.  That's not going to be good for our garden department.  No one wants to wandering around looking at shrubberies in the rain.

Speaking of shrubberies, I'm thinking of buy some sort of hemlock to put in front of my porch, one that does well in shade since it will sit in the shadow of the gingko tree.\

And I learned a thing yesterday.  My desk is big, and heavy, and impossible for me to lift by myself with all of the drawers inside.  However, I can push the thing, so I've begun pushing it around the writing room in order to get the area rugs out from under it.  One of the rugs was rolled up and taped yesterday, and is now sitting on my back porch waiting to go out in the garbage.  The second one will be gone later this morning.  One thing that surprised me, was how much of a doggie odor they have.  It's a good thing none of my friends never decided to have a lay down my floor.\

There were some interesting entries on social media yesterday, things that out and out made me laugh, one of which was when they tried to get Bo Bo Boebert to sign a Beetlejuice program.  I understand that when she went to speak she was nearly droned out by people chanting that name over and over again.

And then there were the Bootlickers.  Evidently, Matty Gaetz has decided to form a new faux rock band that really does nothing more than play air guitar and lip sync badly.

As for the trial, from all reports Trump's attorney, some guy named Blanche (I try a name change if I were him) lost his temper on more than one occasion.  Was his temper tantrum successful at doing anything other than showing his weaknesses?  Only the jury knows.

Lubed

 Okay, today's the day the temps begin rising.  Low 80's (F) being reached this after equals ceiling fans at level II upstairs - no Central AC.  If the forecasters are correct, we should be topping off near 90 (F) tomorrow.  Still no air, the fans might be spinning at Level I.  On Thursday, I have off, and the temps are supposed to begin their slow crash back into the normal 70-ish (F) range.  Oh, and there's a 64% chance of rain.

Yesterday was meh at the store.  Garden was busy, as expected, as was building materials.  People are doing a lot of home renovations.  The economy is booming.  Isn't that nice.  That doesn't mean we don't get asked stupid questions.  Phone calls.  Stupid people who choose not to look at a computer.  Yesterday a received a call from a woman who asked if we carried something called Fresetia (Sp).  Since I wasn't familiar with it, I asked her to spell it; we have millions of products on our website that are not in the store.  She got irritated:  "I don't know how to spell it!  I don't even know if I'm pronouncing it correctly!"  Yes, she said that.  When I asked what the product was she said, "it's an area rug.  I want to know if you have any in stock.  I want to see it.  I don't want to buy one without looking at it."  So, I told her if she's looking at our website, there will be a notation at the bottom letting her know if we have any in stock."  Her response.  "Well, you're not helping me at all."  And then she hung up.

Oh, and I got some new lube!

It's for the treadmill.  Now you all know.  You need to keep your belt lubricated if you want it to slide smoothly.

And what about that Supreme Court?  Are they going to make a long binding 2nd Amendment decision?  I suspect so.  Making it easy to carry a concealed weapon on the streets is fine for Conservatives.  Me?  I want more accountability, and fewer guns.  At the same time, however, their decisions to throw out Loser #45's elections challenges, as well as their liberal decisions on LGBTQ cases hands Conservatives a roll of burning toilet paper.  In an odd sort of way, they are keeping the country Centrist, spinning around in a circle like a well lubed hub, morselling out wins to the hungry mouths of both Liberals and Conservatives.  Someone once said, "you can't keep all of the people happy all of the time, but you can keep some of the people happy some of the time."  Their treadmill has been well lubed and they seem to be quite satisfied to keep running without moving fully to the left or the right, and in an odd way keeping the country Centrist.