How (in the world did I forget to title this?)

Today:

Tim got his car back together, and we have been driving it again. 

We got had to run to Titusville to get some pipefittings made. 

Min's walking better, so the antibiotics must be working. 

It was a beautiful day. In the 60s. I didn't wear a coat. The snow is melting quickly, and should be gone by tomorrow. 

That post yesterday. It got me to thinking once again, about that book that I loved so much as a kid, and could never find. I didn't know the title. I didn't know the author's name. I just remembered the story line. It turned out later, that my memory of the story line was not 100%, which is probably why typing in what I remembered about the book didn't work. In any case, I found a website that listed Scholastic books, with pictures of the covers. 

When I saw this, I recognized it right away. It is the book that I've been searching for, off and on, for years now. 

I was surprised to see that my little 45 cent book was selling for some crazy prices. One even wanted $73 for it! I found it on e-bay for $10 and ridiculously, I bought it. 

Even more ridiculous, I am excited for it to get here. 

So, that was today. Sadly, my knee is worse. The pain has always been on the medial side of my knee. Starting last night, it seems to be also affecting the lateral side, which is a bit discouraging. It occurs to me that it might help if I used a cane, but honestly, I cannot quite reconcile myself to that. Not yet. 

Back in September, I told you about the seed collector who was collecting native grasses.

 (https://lifesfunnylikethat.blogspot.com/2024/09/) 

Anyways, much to our surprise, we got another check in the mail from him for our Rattlesnake grass. A bit of serendipity. I'm not sure when he came back, because we've had snow on the ground for such a long time. 

What else? I bought another Christmas present today. 

We are going to buy 50 pounds of field corn to plant for the deer. Tim said, "I wish we had something to break up the soil..." I said, "Like a rototiller?" He said, "No. Something big..." I said, "Like a tractor drawn rototiller?" He looked at me. I said, "We GOT one, Tim. It's parked over next door in Anna and Dave's machine shed. Everybody in the family uses it." He grinned embarrassedly. "Gees. I forgot." 

Some people raise beef. Our intention is to raise 'woods' beef. 

We are not watching the blabbing tonight, because that is all it is. He just runs his mouth and makes big promises, but they are 'pie crust promises': easily made, easily broken. He'll be singing a whole different song tomorrow. I will just wait and see what he does then. 

I found this interesting though: 

 How many times have we heard the right wing screeching about their second amendment rights? Every single time a democrat runs, the rallying cry is: "He's coming for your guns!" 

Except...now...

https://www.aol.com/news/top-federal-prosecutor-washington-says-181828606.html

The second amendment folks will go apeshit over that.