Moody's Ruling

 At present, out outside temp is 66 (F) and we have some seriously overcast skies.  Things are predicted to clear up for this afternoon, but I work.  Our forecast for the next 3 days is for partially sunny skies and some what warm.  Yesterday our temps climbed up into the 80s (F), and we had severe thunderstorms, at least as far as the torrential rains, no winds, but my oh my did we get the rain.  Inches fell.  So much, we were placed under a flash flood warning.  

On the plus side, I got yardwork done before the storms hit.  The backyard was weed wacked, I got the trellis hung for my grape vine along the front fence.  There were a lot of young spotted lantern flies, and since I didn't have a pesticide, I sprayed them with a Clorox cleaning product.  That probably wasn't too good for the vine, but most of the bugs are gone.  I will have to pick up a pesticide from work when I leave this afternoon.  

And, since prices are going to go up (and don't think for a moment that they're going to be coming down) I ordered myself a new color laser jet printer from Staples.  I've been using an Epson super tank for the past 4 years, but for the past 8 or 9 months there have been printer head issues.  The life expectancy for an Epson laser jet is 3 - 5 years, and it was worked hard.  It was expensive, but is way past the warranty date and it didn't seem worth the expense to have it fixed.  The new one is an HP and is less expensive and has the same life expectancy.

Here's a pic of one of my yellow Itoh peonies.

I see that Moody's has downgraded our credit rating from AAA to AA1 because of our accumulating debt.  Excuse me... but where is all the month DOGE is saving?  Shouldn't that be driving down our debt?  Oh, wait, maybe all of those savings are being spent to buy Kristi, AKA Ice Barbie, Noem a new $50 million dollar jet to make it easier for her to fly from Cosplay event to Cosplay event.  Or perhaps all those savings are covering the golfing trips to Mar a Lago.  Orangie seems to enjoy throwing ass-kissing parties for corporate executives where they may pledge to spend millions of dollars, but it is we, the taxpayers, who are paying for all of those Big Macs and Diet Cokes.  

In reality, what this downgrade does is make it more difficult for Republican lawmakers to borrow money to pay for Orangie's tax break to himself.  It also puts us one step closer to bankruptcy.  Wowza.

And, finally, Orangie is furious with the Supreme Court.  Except for the two fascists, Alito and Thomas, the Court is keeping on hold Orangie's deportment problem.  They should have realized he was going to pimp that immunity ruling from here to hell and back.