Birds, Negative Covid Tests and Yellow Journalism

Greetings Mellow Citizens - how are things in your neck of the woods?  Things are somewhat strange here.  We used to have many birds in the side yard.  Doves, quail, little birds, and birds with raucous voices were here looking for things to eat.  They're gone.  If we go outside, we don't even hear birds, except for the always annoying Gila Woodpecker.  I'm pretty sure doves and quail don't migrate, so we wonder where the birds have gone.

Here is yet another picture of one of my favorite churches.  We move about so little, it's difficult to find things to photograph.

Last Monday Jim started feeling bad.  Headache, body aches, temperature and some other Covid markers.  I personally did not think he was sick enough to have Covid, but it was concerning for him.  Wednesday, we made an appointment with the county for a test, only to discover that you have to park your car, and walk into a building with other people who think they might be sick.  No drive through is available, you must go share air with possibly sick people.  We cancelled and called our family physician.  They do covid testing!  They also check oxygen saturation, listen to your lungs and in Jim's case check out ears and nose.  The PA saw that the nares are slightly swollen and suspects allergies.  Anyway, she did not use the swab that goes up into your brain, they have shorter swabs that collect from the nasal passages.  Totally painless.  Jim got his negative result Thursday, and I got mine Friday.  So, as of that point in time, no Covid for us.  So, that was a good thing to have behind us.  She also said that if you're in a grocery store or Costco, where everyone is masked, odds are good that you won't get it.  That's pretty much our universe these days, along with Trader Joe's.

Have you been following the NY Post "article" about Hunter Biden?  As it turns out, the story is such garbage that no one in the ranks of the writers would allow their names to be attached as a by-line.  They finally used the name of a new employee who has never published anything.  There are more words at the NYT.  Rudy Giuliani should just be ashamed of himself.  He said, in public, that he had taken the story to the Post because any other paper would want to vet the facts.  Rupert Murdoch owns the paper, he doesn't fact check anything.  Hopefully this will not affect Joe's chances of winning, we just can't stand it if he doesn't.

Other than this, I have nothing intelligent to say.