Yeah, it’s preparedness month for people like us all year long. But September is official. The government say so, so I believe it. 😉 Yes, I’m late to mention it. Saturday at 2:00 a.m. I got a reminder of the one weakness in my prep kits. I woke up feeling as if I had something in my eye, way back in the outside corner where it wasn’t easy to get at. Hours later, it was still there, despite doing expedient things like sticking my head underwater and wiggling my eyeballs around. (I’m so glad nobody was around with a camera.…
16 CommentsMonth: September 2018
I got up early this morning and the quality of the moonlight slanting in from the west was so striking it reminded me of that old barbershop quartet song. Orion appeared above the trees, fully visible for the first time this season. Through a trick of the light, it stood alone. While moonlight and mist obscured most stars, Orion was clear and strong. Even the fuzzy “stars” of his sword were visible. Although generally when it comes to the sky I couldn’t tell Cassiopeia from the Perseid meteor shower, I learned to love this constellation when I was a kid…
13 CommentsI’m having a bad brain day. Or at least a slow brain morning. More later, but in the meantime have a Chihuahua puppy fighting a Great Dane. Source
4 CommentsSara Hoyt relates the horrors her sons experienced with grade-school #MeToo and ponders the impossibility of healthy relationships and healthy children ever arising out of such mad mentality. (Via Wendy McElroy)
7 CommentsVery long but very worth it. Kent Sorenson was a cocky political rookie being courted for his influence in the Iowa caucuses. He switched loyalties from Bachmann to Paul — and committed a greedy rookie error. He went to federal prison for corruption. It was a real eye opener.
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