Greetings People of Earth! How are you holding up? I'm perpetually irritable due to uncertainty and fear of what will happen. The wombat has already told us he intends to steal the election. If that man gets four more years, he's going to spend them putting methane into the air and cutting down the Tongass National Forest. It's a huge carbon sink, if it goes away, things will be bad.
Wednesday we were coming back from somewhere about 2:00 in the afternoon. What do you think we saw? Apparently the tortoise did not like his new environment and decided to move on. He was in the middle of the road, right in front of the mail boxes - an excellent place to be run over. We stopped, picked him up and took him to the other side of the road in his direction of travel.
He sat there for awhile, looking around, and then walked on down into the wash. We went back to the house and then came back, expecting to see him on his way to somewhere, but he was nowhere to be found. We noticed a hole in the side of the wash, below the road, and wonder if perhaps it's a burrow. Maybe it's his burrow. I like to think that it is, and that he's home for the holidays.
Here are some gratuitous desert pictures. Since it has cooled off it's been so much more enjoyable. This week it goes back up into the low 90's which I am not excited about.
The Texas sage is blooming again. That was unexpected.
Politics rolls on. In North Carolina, local police pepper sprayed a peaceful march to a voting location, including little kids. They were unable to access the polling place because the police kept spraying them. What's next? Dogs and water cannons? It appears that wombat supporters surrounded a Biden bus on a Texas freeway attempting to stop it in the traffic lane. One campaign aide's car was hit by one of their trucks. Traffic was hosed for quite some time. These people are just despicable, all of them. Even if Biden wins, these people will still be among us. There is not enough money on the planet to deprogram them.
Despite the orange wombat's daily mantra that we're rounding the corner and the virus will disappear, it does not seem to be the case. The governor of South Dakota is currently at Mar-a-Lago doing some sort of campaign events. She professes to be quite happy with her state's response to the virus and has no plans to encourage the wearing of masks or social distancing. It's hard not to wish that she would get a bad case of it.
Other than this, I have zippity-doo-dah to report.
Your cases per 100000 are much lower than here, in our county its currently 490 per 100000, a huge spike. Its probably due to the density of housing in certain areas as other less populated areas of Wales have much lower figures. Lets hope our lockdown works. Roll on a vaccine.
ReplyDeleteThe wombat just delisted the wolf from the endangered species list. I cried. There are so few wolves still and people (I can't call them hunters) will destroy them. I'm still very afraid of what is going to happen on election day and the weeks after. I hope your tortoise is home safe and stats there.
ReplyDeleteThe area in which you live is really gorgeous, probably do without the hotness but who els has tortoise delivering mail? Sweet little thing. I had one for a pet, her name was Timmy and she was wonderful. Nothing we can do about the Orange take over of a once great nation. Duck and cover and stay out of their way I am thinking. You are right- deprograming not possible, the pendulum has swung too far in the wrong direction.
ReplyDeleteI love that Texas sage. It's blooming up here too! I hadn't heard about the idiots surrounding the campaign bus. I wonder how they define democracy.
ReplyDeleteI'm so impressed that the tortoise came back! (Assuming it's the same one?) I've heard that animals have an excellent sense of direction so I wouldn't be surprised if it found its way home.
ReplyDeleteI have, once again, stopped reading the news. I hadn't heard about the TX and NC happenings. It is past understanding the why's and who's and police and, and, and.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe the tortoise turned up again! Thanks for moving him off the road. He really must like your street.
ReplyDeleteI hope your tortoise gets his future planned.
ReplyDeleteare you sure it's the same tortoise? if so I imagine it had a hell of a time getting back home after being moved elsewhere. beautiful photos of the desert and that blue sky. and those stupid MAGAts shut down several roadways in other states over the weekend not just harassing the Biden bus, strutting around, patting themselves on the back...we showed them libs! what do they think they accomplished by inconveniencing people?
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