The Lake, Turkeys, and Gym Equipment

Mellow Greetings Earthlings.  How goes it in your parts?  It's not freaking hot anymore, but it's warm.  I had planned to sit on the front porch and type this while caramelizing onions in the grill, but it's too hot for that.  My fall back is to go out every 10 minutes and stir, hoping they won't have burned in the mean time.  They're labelled Walla Walla sweets, but they smell more like big yellow onions.  Cutting them up was brutal.

Two days ago there was almost a full moon.  All of my cameras refused to see it, but it's sort of a nice picture of across the street.

As usual, there has been riding to the lake.  I have two photos that do not totally suck.  The first is the exit road from the park.  This is the egress for cars and people towing boats.  Behind the flowers is private property, he has a massive garden as well as a boat lift.  Truly, he has housing perfection.

This duck was in the sun, you can see the color on his face.

The turkeys have been spending time in the next door yard.  We go for weeks without seeing them, but they've been here a lot as of late.  I was watching them dig.  They have big strong feet and they're not afraid to up root the annuals in a search for bugs.

Yesterday was terrible.  As you no doubt recall, in October of 2021, our home gym arrived.  We bought a pad that came in segments with interlocking sides.  It was a spectacular failure.  Even though we duct taped all of the seams on the underside, the combination of the movement of the machine, and the insanely Scotch Guarded carpet, resulted in the pad unzipping itself over time.  So, we had to partially disassemble the weight equipment so we could unload the weight stack so we could move it enough to get the new pad under it.  This resulted in me resting the top bar on my shoulder while Jim unloaded the stack.  It's very heavy.  Anyway, it's done now, if we get the same amount of time out of this pad, I will be a happy camper.  The whole exercise is leading me to think that should we move, that will not be going with us.  Packing would be horrific.  It looks nicer on the black pad than the previous one which was baby blue.

The orange menace has re-posted a video that claims that VP Harris has been promoted to her current position by doing sexual favors for men.  I can not tell you how revolting I find this person.  Coverage is here, if you're interested.  I don't want it touching my blog.

Fall is on its way, the hydrangeas are developing their rust color that they finish out the season with.

And finally, there is this.

But wait, there's also this.