Friday will be a very long day. Excuse my absence from the site. I’ll do my best to catch up later.
Well, I’ll have to say I was shocked that Hamas gave up the twenty living hostages. I am a little suspicious of their claiming to not have all of the remains of the dead hostages. Maybe they’re still holding onto some of the living that way. But all in all, it seems like the Arabs are applying the screws to Hamas and that is a good sign. Trump is getting some credit even from the leftist media and that is also encouraging.
And I hear that the Supreme Court is about to declare some parts of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. Specifically, I think they’ll say that the present maximizing of black representation is a form of anti-white discrimination and that may be an incredible change to the breakdown of seats between the Democrats and Republicans in places like Alabama and Mississippi. Good. Gerrymandering makes a 60/40 state like Massachusetts into a 100/0 state in terms of representation. There are zero Republicans in the US House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Why should there be any Democratic reps in places like Oklahoma or Utah? Just draw the district maps so that the Republican suburbs and exurbs out number the urban Democrat strongholds and presto change-o no Democrat reps! Sounds like a plan. Thank you, Massachusetts!
Now I hear Trump is going to meet with Zelensky and then give the Ukrainians Tomahawk missiles. That’s a very powerful weapons system. And then I hear he’s going to meet with Putin. Well, he’s really going to have to pull a rabbit out of his hat to end this war. But let him try. I just hope we don’t start taking incoming from Russian surrogates. I was just beginning to hope Trump was serious about making the world more peaceful. Fingers crossed.
Even though we’ve already had frost on the ground Camera Girl was able to find a live preying mantis in the yard and now it’s taking up residence in our house. She even bought some crickets at Petco and hopes to keep it alive for the duration. I warned her this might be a very short reprieve. I think they’re not programmed to live very long after maturity. Well, I hope to take some macro shots of our little houseguest before he kicks off.
Unbelievably we’re still getting raspberries from the patch and we had them today with vanilla ice cream. But we’re down to the nitty-gritty. I think we’ll be getting a hard freeze in the next week or so. And I’ve taken a bunch of photos of the wolfbane because by Halloween they’ll be wilted too. Today the bees and the flies were the only insect life I saw around the yard.
So, a beautiful September and beginning of October is transitioning to more wintery weather but spirits are high and with any luck I’ll survive my three-week ordeal with First Selectman Cthulhu with only superficial damage.
Excelsior!