It's feeling very fall-ish today. So fall-ish that we bailed on the early morning ride, too cold. I guess we'll be moving in to the late morning/early afternoon ride pattern. Right now we are waiting for the garage door repair people again because Wednesday the door would not go all the way up or down unless one kept one's finger on the door opener button continuously. After we called for the repair people to come out, it of course, fixed itself, but I would still like someone to look at it. Yesterday was also exciting when the water dispenser in the door of the refrigerator turned itself on all by itself. After some amount of struggle, we were able to pull the refrigerator out of its nook and turn the water off. Until that gets fixed, the water can only be on when we're around to deal with the dispenser should it fire off again. Home ownership can be such a delight.
There have been turkeys on parade.
Wednesday we rode to the lake. It was a delightful, if not slightly chilly ride. We went down to the recreation area to see what was going on. In a word, nothing was going on. There is a relatively short window for the work they want to do on the area. Once it snows, I'm not sure what they can accomplish. This is looking up where the RVs used to park.
A nice looking tree.
We rode down and sat a a picnic table near the water. Because of the boat ramps being busy, we've never sat there before. It was very pleasant having it all to ourselves.
Later on Wednesday there was a decent illuminated cloud at sunset.
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Later there was a good moon. I took these pictures with my cell phone, I'm actually surprised it saw anything since it was dark.
A tripod would probably be helpful.
The news cycle is currently occupied with the death of Queen Elizabeth, and the orange ectoplasm's case wherein he was granted a special master who would review classified documents to see if the ectoplasm was entitled (as a private citizen with no security clearance) to keep them.
Remember the lawsuit the ectoplasm filed back in 2016 accusing Hilary Clinton, Peter Strzok, and others of maligning his character? He tried to file it in Judge Cannon's court (she of the special master) but it ended up in Judge Middlebrook's court. Today he dismissed the case in its entirety and is considering sanctioning the attorneys who brought it. Let us hope that he does sanction them so that they don't try to refile in Cannon's court. From twitter we have this reaction.
Other than that, there is not so much upon which to comment.
Don't you just love how some folks are so capable of using our alphabet to bonk the orange peter on the head! Excellent!
ReplyDeleteTurkeys certainly have gone forth and been fruitful. I think of them as way east coast birds.
ReplyDelete73 degrees this morning!!! I'm so excited. Still in 90s during day but there is hope. I love your moon pictures.
ReplyDeleteOur high temperatures are still in the very low 90s but they promise lower humidity next week but we don't really measure the turn of the season by temperature but by what the plants are doing.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos. As for the orange piece of shit, I spit on the ground.
ReplyDeleteHome ownership definitely has it's moments. I hope the garage door opener and fridge issues can be dealt with quickly and at limited costs.
ReplyDeleteMy hope is that IQ45 ends up with a special master who was a former president (or his wife) or better still his opposition in the 2016 election. From Twitter I believe any of these have the necessary clearance. :)
I had heard about the court case being dismissed but I hadn't seen that comment from the dismissing order. Well said! Cell phone cameras are getting so good, I use mine all the time.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to believe you were having chilly weather when we are still boiling down here. Fingers crossed it won't be much longer.
That is a pretty brilliant summary of the dismissal! I'm impressed your phone took the night shots. My phone can't seem to manage those. (Granted, I have an older phone.)
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