Whining About the Climate

Mellow Greetings, citizens.  I note that I haven't posted since the 8th.  There's a reason for that, we're just that boring.  Since my last update, Jim painted the frame for the door that goes in to the house from the garage.  It looks much better than it did.  Remember the photo of the Hickman Bridge I posted awhile back?  I ordered a 12 by 18 inch print from Costco, bought a very inexpensive frame for it and hung it in the downstairs bathroom, which displaced another framed print which is now covering up holes in the wall left by the previous owners.  I swear I don't know what those people did when they pulled out nails, each one has a raised ring around the hole.  We're not planning to paint that bathroom, so strategically placed art is important.

My main topic of discussion is how awful the weather has been.  Actually, it's only been the last two days, it just feels like a year.  This was taken the 11th, which was actually a decent day.  Jim spent time in the garage painting, and I pulled weeds.  At the end of the day, we lamented that we'd wasted a day that could have been spent riding.

So, the next day we did the ride to the lake.  It was a nice day and we enjoyed it.  There are still a couple of hills that leave me breathless, but overall I'm ok with how we're doing.  This was taken from where we park the car.

Here we are back at the lake, sitting closer to the water, looking back at the RV park.  There are only two RVs up there, and it's a Sunday.  I fully expected it to be packed.  The things sticking up out of the grass down slope from the RVs are power and water pedestals for tent campers.

Yesterday it rained without ceasing.  ALL DAY.  It was amazing how wet it was.  There was a system parked over Spokane rotating counter clockwise.  Really, we were expecting the end of days it was so dark.  It never got out of the 40s.

However, one must keep in mind that things could be so much worse.  Today it's windy and cold, but it hasn't rained. 

So, that's all I have to report from the home front. 

I've been watching bits and pieces of the January 6 hearings.  Ivanka was previously recorded saying that Bill Barr had told her that the orange ectoplasm did not win the election and she had no reason to doubt what he said.  Left unsaid was "despite the ravings of her lunatic father."  The twitterverse was transfixed by her appearance.  Why did she look like this?  Why did Jared look the way he did?  It almost look like she's had filler in the lips, but her entire face looks odd.  Inquiring minds really want to know.

I thought this was amusing.

One of the things that came out of the hearings is the fact that the ectoplasm raised $250,000.00 before, during and after January 6.  The emails asking for money said it was for an election defense fund.  It was not.  The bulk of the money went to his hotels.  That's wire fraud.  If they feds don't want to prosecute for high crimes and misdemeanors, then the state of NY should go after him for fraud.  It carries a 20 year sentence.