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Posted on 12/27/2020 3:56:33 AM PST by MtnClimber
It's always nice to end a bad year with a bombing.
My desk overlooks an intersection. Looking out on it, Christmas Eve was gloomy and depressing. No lights, no people, virtually no cars. Just dark and cold and rain. I have no greater expectations for New Year’s Eve.
The morning after I saw a fat grey squirrel racing up the tall holly at the corner of my front lawn, picking up in its mouth huge dried leaves blown there from the sycamore tree, scampering across the gutter on the garage and disappearing from my view. I stepped out to see where the nest was being built, and there it was, a huge house of sycamore leaves in the crotch of an even taller holly tree, high above the house. (Both hollies had long been stripped of berries -- first by blue jays, then by robins and chickadees and finally by squirrels. The trees, once covered in red, have not a single berry on them.) The nest builder knows somehow that a cold winter is coming and is preparing to keep her family warm and safe. We will have to do the same.
Nashville Bombing
It’s early yet and we’ve no idea who bombed Nashville or why. I hope that, unlike the 58 murders by Stephen Paddock in Las Vegas, the FBI will have some answers about motivation this time. It’s early yet and it’s always a good idea to wait a couple of days, ignoring so many speculative articles -- often pointing fingers at whoever the writer dislikes most. Still, one tweeter, Alex Little, a former federal prosecutor, has provided a thoughtful analysis.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I hope the professional politicians will resolve to have less hoax next year.
This is kinda weird: We moved from Seattle to rural KY in 2011. The one thing that made it really easy was Costco.com and Amazon.com. That is, we don’t sing the “small town blues” when it comes to shopping, unless it is only the brick and mortar shopping experience that we miss, which is isn’t.
We have pretty much the same choice of goods as the big city now, thanks to Amazon.
The reason I bring that up? It’s because this lockdown has not really affected us nor our Christmas at all. We’re visiting family in Chicago, Texas and Louisville in three separate events this year. We’ve done Chicago, are getting ready to do Texas, and will do Louisville next weekend. We will end up seeing almost all of our six kids, our grandkids, and several of our siblings. And one of them we see in Louisville has flown there from Seattle, and another from Phoenix.
The one day the lockdown has affected me is that I save, after taxes, over $750 a month thanks to work from home. Oh, and a 3 hour commute every day.
I’m a little like the investor in 1935 saying “the crash made me rich” though. But I make no apologies. This one was suicide, and when I see someone in a mask, I see them as the cause unless they are using the secret code - not covering their nose. ;)
But it has really strengthened my resolve never to put either of my parents in any kind of "facility" when they are older. Because people act like they are legally prevented from seeing their folks for months on end, and I'm wondering, "Can't you just TAKE THEM OUT OF THE FACILITY AND CARE FOR THEM AT HOME?" I'm worried that these facilities actually somehow gain legal custody... like... you can't get them back. Screw that!
FUMMXX!
“I’m worried that these facilities actually somehow gain legal custody.”
I wonder about that, too. It seems I’ve heard that in some facilities patients have to sign over their assets. I don’t know if that’s true — but who knows these days.
Oh... yes, that was what we heard when my friend was dying of brain cancer. That they would take her if she signed over all her assets. Her boyfriend was a champ and said, “Never mind,” and he took care of her himself to the very last minute.
We are blessed, too, that our mom isn’t living in a facility. After Dad died when both were in their 80s, we kids were confronted with how to handle Mom’s situation. We couldn’t bear the thought of “a home”, and the cost was out of the question.
It turned out that circumstances came together that my brother and his family decided that the family farm since the 1700s would be a great place to raise their three boys. His career is such that he set up his shop there, and the family moved in with her. That was 13 years ago. She’s 96, and is well cared for by my angel SIL.
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Wow, that is awesome!
Clarice!
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