As it turns out we rode Sunday and Monday because the weather forecast for the rest of the week was dismal. Both days were pretty good. We may not get the glorious fall that we had last year, we may have the damp and miserable version. Here is the view from where we park. Today has been wet and a penetrating cold.
An adolescent rabbit has been visiting. He also is entirely too comfortable sitting out in the open. The cat that lives across the street menaced him today. That cat is too fat and old to get him, but there may be other cats. If you look closely you can see the newly planted grass in the background.
Our neighbor is having his roof replaced. They started a day late because they thought it would rain, it didn't. So they got half the roof off, and haven't been back since because it has been raining. This may take awhile. They have a really cool trailer for debris. I have not seen one like this before. It raises up and gets close the the roof.
The Trump organization lost bigly in court yesterday. Judge Engoron
has given the organization the poison pill of death. Their license to do business in New York has been revoked. All of the LLCs are now in
receivership, and they are quite likely to be sold off. If DA Letitia James gets
her requested $250M fine, proceeds of the LLC sales may be used to pay
that off. It's a good day to not be a crook.
Today Judge Chutkan delivered a scathing rebuke to Trump's lawyers who suggested she recuse herself. The answer was a resounding no. So, another loss for the orange one.
We were in Target yesterday. CVS has small branches in many Target stores. It was closed due to staffing shortages. That's the first time we've actually seen that. I read about pharmacies closing, but this was in person. Customers were directed to go a store in South Hill, which is a pretty healthy drive from North Spokane. Chaos is breaking out in commercial pharmacies, and in independents. PBMs are milking the system for all it's worth, and in some cases a pharmacy will have to sell a drug at a loss due to all of the fees stacked on top of the wholesale prices. Corporate owners are not staffing enough to ensure patient safety from errors. This is a very disturbing trend, which bodes ill for the future of health care in the US.
From twitter we have this.
Linda sue here-love the little rabbit surrounded by pink flags - celebrating two favorites-pink and bunnies! Your first photo is a stunner, gorgeous! Thank you for run down on “ happenings”in the broke down country? Finally a bit of a smack for the orange baby. Health care is a lie …nothing to do with either health or care. It is refreshing to be away from USA insanity,at least for a little breather.
ReplyDeleteThe outlook at the park is lovely. I do hope the weather improves.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see IQ45 face some consequences, though I expect the grift will continue. Mind you, if Deutsche Bank calls their loans...if they haven't already.
What beautiful scenery you captured in that top photo. Thanks for sharing that bit of nature with this city girl. A big Target in NYC is closing down too. I hope Target won't go the way of Woolworth's, which I still miss lol.
ReplyDeleteGetting colder, darker and wetter here too. Ho hum. Winter!
ReplyDeleteSeems like the Orange one's paperwork has been amiss here in Scotland as well....
I think your bunny could could take on any cat. They have some pretty vicious back legs! The CVS problem ( and other drug stores!) is very serious. They aren't even attempting to schedule Covid vaccinations.
ReplyDeleteHa! That IS funny. I had heard that several retailers are closing stores because of industrial-scale shoplifting as well.
ReplyDeleteMarc told me that yesterday, I forget which was the other store but he said the CEO of Lowe's said they won't be closing any stores because they aren't suffering the wholesale shoplifting for one reason, they have employees on the floors.
DeleteIt is awful, what's happening in the small chain drug stores. In my state, California, a neighborhood Rite Aid closed recently, and the CVS operation, also nearby, looks like a tornado came through and swept the shelves clean. The sales staff explained it is indeed shoplifting on a grand scale that's happening. We've watched as the news reporters show this terrorization taking place in urban areas for the past several months; now it's come to the suburbs too. The stores are insured, but they're of course examining the bottom line of operating under such dangerous conditions. And these are not, in any way, what one would consider to be unsafe neighborhoods. Thieves are becoming exceedingly brazen and utterly mobile.
DeleteIf not for PBM and getting my meds through the associated online pharmacy with my health care insurer I would not be able to afford one of my medications. over the counter at a regular pharmacy it would cost me $700 a month. and companies refusing to hire adequate staff is all about greed to pad CEOS and shareholders and then they complain because 'no one wants to work' (which is bullshit) and the rampant shoplifting.
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