Trolling the Past

Things are not so good right now.  The orange giblet has appointed Pete Hegseth, formerly a captain in the army, and a Fox News talking head who famously said on camera that he never washes his hands, to be Secretary of Defense.  Marco Rubio, Secretary of State.  Homeland Security will have Kristi Noem, dog and goat murderer at the helm.  Matt Gaetz (formerly under consideration for expulsion from congress for trafficking underage girls) is up for Attorney General.  Tulsi Gabbard, a Russian spy, is up for Director of Intelligence.    Giblet will be releasing an Executive Order saying he can fire generals at will if they won't kiss the ring.  Last time's clown show will be seen as mild compared to this one.

In times of turmoil, it's nice to look at photos from better days.  When Costco got out of the photo business, they gave all of our photos to Shutterfly.  The only way I can seem to get a photo back from them is to do a screen shot.  This pisses me off somewhat.  Anyway, I found a couple that were good.

This is from sometime from the mid-1990s.  Jim and I hiked the Chiraco trail a lot.  It was a brutally difficult hike, all up hill.  Notice that Jim has blue legs.  He's wearing long underwear under his shorts.  That was the winter uniform.

This is me, also wearing long underwear.  I was not a natural blonde, ever.

This is the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest, back before Orban.  That was a fabulous trip, we really liked it there.  This was taken early in the morning.

Here we are with sun.

The thing about traveling in Europe is the history that surrounds you of long wars, famine, the rise and fall of empires and all that.  People do survive, but often at a terrible cost.  It was not on my bingo card to participate in the fall of the US in my golden years.  I'd really like to give this a pass.  If you search on Budapest, you can see the entire trip.

In the past I really liked Christmas.  Not the religious aspect of it, but the fact that a person could go over the top with shiny things and lights.  I liked to buy three foot tall fake Christmas trees, string lights on them and then wire on Christmas ornaments.  They were beautiful.  That's a Department 56 house on the left, and my Santa guy.  I still have the Santa.  The rest went the way of  "free, come get it."  I believe that's the West Seattle house, where we lived for 10 years.

Notice the gift wrapping bottom right of the collage.  Shutterfly did the collage, I can't undo it. 

Today was exhausting.  Much of it was spent in the car in the north end of Tucson, trying to acquire stuff like a 12 inch skillet with lid (HomeGoods has many skillets, no lids), Target for Clinique moisturizer, and couple of more cereal bowls, Trader Joe's for macaroni and cheese, and just stuff.  We also got blood work done for the appointments with the doctor next week. 

The best thing we bought today was a frozen pizza so we did not have to go to the grocery store.

That's it, I'm done.