New Refrigerator and the Present Administration

It's still hot, but at least it's out of the triple digits.  Riding still has to occur earlier than I would like, but there you go.

Our new refrigerator arrived this morning.  I think the old one was original to the house, twenty some odd years ago.  The water dispenser died right after we moved in.  It occurred to us that without a water dispenser, changing the water filter in the frig was going to be an issue.  Much water must be run for a new filter.  So, we bought a new side by side, and they brought out this morning.  All of our food is still in styrofoam coolers, I'm hoping the frozen stuff will survive.  

It's blooming here.  I have photographic evidence. This is a Palo Verde up the street from us.  This variety has the pretty blossoms.  All Palo Verdes are a complete mess when they drop their petals on the ground.

A prickly pear in the desert.  This is my favorite color.

Look at the height of the flower spike on the yucca.  It's growing inches by the day.  These don't die after blooming like the agaves do.

Oleanders in the back.  They're pitiful bloomers.

Fairy Dusters.  This one is growing as nature intended it to, it hasn't been shaped in to a ball.

The war drags on, no one knows what's going on in Dear Leader's head.  He claimed that talks were going very well with Iran.  Iran responded with we're not talking to Kushner or Witkoff anymore, and there have been no talks.  Liar liar, pants on fire.  Today he was advocating for former President Biden and former VP Kamala Harris to be required to take IQ tests.  He thinks he's smarter.  Right then.

The Treasury Department has announced that the US is insolvent.  What could go wrong?

Notable quotes from twitter:

Janice Hough
As much as I hate Trump's idea of sending ICE to fill in for TSA, as someone in the travel industry can't think of another move he can make that would so turn Americans against GOP before the 2026 elections....

Sen Chris Murphy on Meet the Press: "We're giving Iran $14B to fund its war with the US? We're giving Russia billions to fund their war with Ukraine? We're literally giving money to the very nations we're fighting right now! We've never seen this level of incompetence in war-making in our history, and quite frankly we've had a LOT of incompetence in war-making!"

The Strait of Hormuz remains closed to the US and Israel.  Hopefully, helium and nitrogen will be on the other boats and available for the US to purchase, no doubt at inflated prices.

So that's what I have to say about things. Also there is this that I swiped from Facebook.