Quiet Place

 I've been thinking about things and I know that there are a lot of people who are having some major anxiety over the situation right now. I get that. I totally get that, and to be perfectly honest, I'd prefer to see people struggling with it rather than simply cheering it on. I read someone who commented that she was thrilled to have a tough business man handling the finances. Shocking to me, because our constitution is in large part built around preventing one man from being able to make decisions like the ones he's making., but there he goes, hammering away at everything, closing buildings, telling people not to come to work...I mean, he doesn't even qualify for a security clearance, and he knows the social security number of every single American. He has access to our financial information. He tried to bring in a foreign citizen to help him in his mighty endeavors, but this got shot down. 

Trump's plan for Gaza. Where the hell do I even begin? All Palestinians need to leave, and they should go to Egypt and Jordan. Both countries have said they do not want to take them in. I think that it is amazingly ironic blabbing from a man who is actively deporting and incarcerating immigrants at Gitmo. What right does he have to direct other countries to do what he himself is opposing in his own country. Yeah. Let's start there. 

Anyways...

There are a lot of people that can't bear to look at these happenings. I do understand that. There are others of us who really do feel the need, as much as we hate what is going on, to keep a close eye on things. I personally consider it my duty to know what is going on, and to speak up every chance I get. If you can't handle that, I guess that my blog is not for you, and I understand that too. Go in peace. No hard feelings. 

One thing that I know is that digesting what is going on and writing about it is a mentally draining thing for me. I mean, I cannot even watch the evening news right now. I can't stand hearing about it. So, I read it. I read a lot. Somehow that's easier for me to take than listening to it.

There are other people out there, people with way more experienced than me, more knowledge of me, more able to fit all these horrible things into a proper framework. What I plan to do from now on is pop a link or two into my posts. If current events are a trigger for you, you can simply not click on them. 

Today's Link: The Care and Feeding of Donald Trump

As a subscriber, I've been offered the chance to give 5 one month subscriptions to anyone who wants them. If that's any of you, let me know and I'll try to sign you up for them. So far, I haven't been able to sign in, but maybe it needs a day or two to click in. The articles come to your e-mail address, and I think they do a good job of separating the wheat from the chaff. 

So, what did we get up to today? Well. Today we picked up 40 lbs of boneless, skinless chicken breasts, so I separated, packaged and vacuum sealed those. We were amazed at the size of them. One chicken breast feeds us both, so we put 30 meals in the freezer today. 

I made my weekly batch of yogurt while I was waiting for Tim to come back from the butcher shop. 

After we were done with that, Tim ate some dinner, and then we headed down to the new house to look at the tile. Tim wanted to make sure that the cement dried and everything was held in place. It was solid and there was no wobble. 

I went down to feed the cats. I had a treat for them. Some of the chicken breasts had required a bit of trimming, so I saved all the scraps and cooked them up. So I headed down to the garage, calling them. I could hear them thundering down the ladder to meet me before I even opened the door. I sat down on the floor and fed them and had a little visit with them. Tiger is the most vocal of them, and when I pet him, he makes happy little 'puurrrrrrrrrrrp' sounds as he curls around my hand. I don't know what made me do it, but today, I answered him. I made a little puurrrrrrrrrrrrp right back at him. 3 cats froze from their post prandial ablutions to stare at me. It just made me laugh at their disbelief. The three of them stopped what they were doing, came immediately to me, all of them answering me. Even Minnie the unpettable! So that was a fun moment. I sat on the floor talking to them. They sat in a semicircle around me talking right back. 

We picked out the grout we wanted today. We had to order it, but it should be here Monday. 

We stopped at a store, and much to my joy, I found ROSEMARY!!!! I've been out of it for about a month, and I haven't been able to find it anywhere. I don't know why it would be out, but the four stores I went had none. 

So, tonight we came home and had our chicken supper. Tim had mashed potatoes with his. I just sliced up a bit of it and topped a salad with it. Very nice. 

So there you have it. Today. A bit of sanity in the middle of the crazy. Hope you all found your own bit of sanity.