How are you all? We're having trouble believing that people in Arizona really believe the election was stolen, and that their stupid "audit" will uncover the malfeasance. Q-Anon has put forth the theory that the orange ectoplasm marked the ballots with watermarks to expose Democratic fraud. They've been exposing the ballots to UV light to make the watermarks and finger prints visible. I think they've been watching too many police procedurals. Rep. Anthony Kern, whose name is on the ballots being audited, is auditing the ballots. This seems like a conflict of interest. Kern has also been seen giving Rep. Andy Biggs a tour of the coliseum.
April 27 we had this down the street. There were two marked sheriff's vehicles, the pickup truck was driven by a detective. A sheriff's car came back four days running. Jim finally walked down and asked the cop what they were doing. They were doing surveillance on a house. The only place they can see it is from up a wash. We don't know whose house or why. The last time a sheriff was there, he was out in the desert after dark. That's when the rattlesnakes are active.
Remember the wall that was knocked down due to a boundary issue? Then a spite wall went up in its place. Well, they've built up a little higher recently.
I'm really not clear on the purpose of the iron work. I don't think it adds anything to the appearance of the wall. Linda (Lady Margaret's Curlers) left a comment on a previous post that the wall looked republican. It is, they're supporters of the orange ectoplasm.
Today I was blocked on twitter by the former French ambassador to the US. Apparently he has a habit of blocking women who take umbrage at something he has said. Here is what he tweeted yesterday. He has since deleted the tweet, and blocked many women including me. This hoary anecdote has been around forever, it's not original to M. Araud.
It pissed me off a lot. So I said this.
He responded with a request for "a little humor." Right, just joking little lady. Anyway, I got a lot of positive feedback, and he got dragged pretty good. The screen shot of his tweet is out there and still circulating. I don't generally post anything on twitter, due to the high crazy count, but that one just set me off.
There are more cactus blooming. This is a teddy bear cholla.
A prickly pear down the street.
A prickly pear on the other side of our wall. It's always cool when they bloom different colors.
I think this is a staghorn cholla.
I've been calling these fat cholla because they're thicker than the staghorns.
Today is day two of being really windy. We got up to ride, but the wind was just too strong. We put watering buckets on a palm and the bottle brush plant. We buy the five gallon buckets from Home Depot, drill tiny holes close to the bottom and fill them with water. It trickles in slowly and doesn't run off. Zone two of the irrigation is turned off due to a leak in a valve. Fortunately everything else is on zone one. The irrigation people can't get out here until May 11. Anyway, after bucket filling we went to HomeGoods up north, where we obtained an inexpensive three quart non-stick pot which I was not willing to spend $115 on at Williams Sonoma.
Jim has been spraying the orange trees with this. It smells unbelievably bad when it's wet, sort of like fermented hot dogs. After it dries, it's not bad. The deer have been in the yard since the spraying, but we don't think they're eating. It would be good if it did work, putting up fencing is not something I want to do.
I've mentioned that there are very few rental cars available. Something like 750,000 cars were dumped into the used car market by the rental agencies at the start of the pandemic. As part of the perfect storm of shortages, people did not want to ride public transit at that time. They wanted their own, hermetically sealed car. So, all the cars were sold in short order. It's estimated that this situation will continue well in to next year.
There was a sunset last night. It was pretty good.
That's it - that's all of the rambling I can muster.
a little humor? not funny. they always think us women should be happy to be the butt of their 'jokes'. but these same, 'it's only a little humor' guys get really irate when they become the butt of a joke.
ReplyDeletecactus flowers are so amazing.
I wonder what they think the 'results' of this audit is gonna be. it's not going to change anything. I guess they'll try to use it as 'proof'. it will be just as valid as if they had just made it up from stitched together lies.
Ancient misogyny is not so ancient- smash the damned patriarchy forever, we are running out of time. The cactus produces such delicate , enticing flowers and then , oh surprise- all thorns underneath, just like a man in heat. Deceptive in their pollinating ways.
ReplyDeleteQ anon is hilarious, invented by a couple of men, of course, a father and son out for a lark and then they loved the power and influence so much that , well, you can see. Male ego takes over again, failure to evolve I suppose, but why should they, they have not been challenged until today, right now, smash the patriarchy. Good response "lady", well done!!
That spite wall is pretty spiteful. I suspect the spikes are just to make it even that much higher and more intimidating! Good job calling out Monsieur Misogyny. I love the green flower on the teddy bear cholla!
ReplyDeleteYou certainly are having a lovely spring of blossoms.
ReplyDeleteWhat a dick. When women say no, they mean maybe? I had a dream last night that there was this guy hitting on me as I was trying to find the old outdoor swimming pool in the town I grew up in. He kept bugging me and instead of putting up with him or trying to be polite, I just told him to go away. A first for me:)
ReplyDeleteMisogynists always think their Misogyny is veiled Humor, it's not. No does mean No... the guy is probably a Closet Rapist and that's why he got so defensive. If he can't take a No, then the likelihood of him forcing himself on Women is very high. That Grudge Wall does look ReTrumplican to me and an Eyesore. However, who wants to SEE a Neighbor with that much animus anyway? They're the sort I want MORE than Six Feet away from me in any public situations and would never have a private situation with them. The pretend Fraud is just ridiculous, but sadly, The Cultists have been fully convinced, even with zero proof or evidence, they imagine validity to the Lies. It's Amusing whenever the Media Interviews one and when they Claim THEY have the Proof, but get defensive about providing it, since, well, it doesn't ACTUALLY Exist except in their Imaginations... I LMAO, it just makes them look like complete Rubes. The Cacti Bloom are always a Joy every Season. Hope the Drama down the Street is nothing to have to be concerned about and that the Deer find a different Buffet than your Citrus Trees.
ReplyDeleteGood for you for that tweet. His comment was quite offensive.
ReplyDeleteThank you for responding to that awful misogynistic tweet! And thank you, too, for the pinks and oranges in this post, and your reassurance that some people in your state have great good sense, Republican walls notwithstanding (I laughed!).
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