Just to let me know what she thinks of my July as the end of New England summer theory, Mother Nature has been laying on the torrid heat and drenching humidity. ¡Ay, Chihuahua!
Fine. I glory in the heat. Although it did make a moving job, I was stuck with a wonderful excuse to sweat like a pig. Well, that’s what showers are for anyway. Today I got the swimming pool back in line. We’ve spent the last two months trying to find a leak that has been draining about 700 gallons of water a day. I was getting ready to switch pool companies when they sent their heavy hitter back with a mandate “to make the crazy old guy happy.” Well, whine bitterly enough and you get some action. So, after convincing myself that the leak is at least 80% fixed I refilled the pool from my poor abused well and adjusted pH, chlorine and added the algaecide and voila, Princess Sack of Potatoes has a cool place to splash around in for the week.
Camera Girl will be in full charge next week because I will be incommunicado. Tonight, I will load up the photos and quotes needed to get me through the next week and a half. Then tomorrow I’ll try to get a couple of posts done ahead of time to minimize the dead air on the site. If I’m lucky World War III will break out and spare me the annoyance (bad joke). But maybe they’ll be some really big news that will make it easy for me to generate copy.
I read that Trump is talking about debating Kamala on Fox News. Now wouldn’t that be a hoot! If there weren’t any ringers in the moderators to protect her, I imagine Kamala would come off sounding like a mental patient. I mean she is a mental patient and without a teleprompter or someone to keep Trump from attacking all her weak spots she just might run off the stage screaming by the ten-minute mark.
As I posted on earlier, Zelensky is now preparing his countrymen for the reality that they will have to come to terms with Moscow. Putin is laying claim to all the areas with majority Russophone populations which I think is about 30% of the Ukrainian land area. And he is demanding the neutering of the Ukrainian army, along with a constitutional amendment forbidding NATO membership.
Along with Zelensky’s fear that Donald Trump will cut off his weapons supply, the recent Russian success along the combat line in Donetsk and the difficulty his army is having locating and keeping recruits is bringing home to Zelensky that pretty soon the current terms that Putin wants may look like a bargain a year from now if his military collapses and the Russians can walk into Kiev.
Well, you never know how a war will turn out but it is starting to look like Joe Biden’s war is coming to a disastrous end. But naturally, for Biden that would be par for the course.
What a shame that the Democrats have made home ownership an impossibility for millions of young couples who want to start a family. You’d think for that reason alone, the Zoomers would all vote for Trump. Well, time will tell. For their sake I hope Trump wins and actually has the smarts to fix the economy. I don’t assume it’s guaranteed that he can fix it. Our economy and the government’s finances have been tricked up by the geniuses in Washington for a couple of decades now. Things may be so fouled up that fixing will take a decade to accomplish. Well, Donald, good luck.