AS: Interesting Times-the 2020 USA thread
Hey, y'all! It's time to start a new USA thread, for the new Year! The title was suggested by @Lamb Chopped and is more polite than the one I had thought of: A Republic if We Can Keep It.
So, I shall start with a weather report. It is January 3 (my granddaughter's birthday and my niece's and a cousin's, too ) and it is 87 degrees. Eighty-Seven. Degrees. For pity's sake. Why back in the good old days, we suffered through July and August with the anticipation of delightful weather in January and February. Don't this just beat all?
So, I shall start with a weather report. It is January 3 (my granddaughter's birthday and my niece's and a cousin's, too ) and it is 87 degrees. Eighty-Seven. Degrees. For pity's sake. Why back in the good old days, we suffered through July and August with the anticipation of delightful weather in January and February. Don't this just beat all?
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Ahem.
May the Interesting Times which lie ahead be 'interesting' in the nicest possible way, IYSWIM, and NOT in the sense of the curse from which the term derives!
I'm aware that your Dear Leader™ isn't making this any easier ...
And with possibly (but hopefully not) a War, somewhere in the middle...
Why yes, I do have a son of draftable age...
Lamb Chopped that brings home the reality. I hope war is avoided.
I sincerely hope it doesn't come to war, but in the present political climate, I have my doubts.
Keeping you all in my prayers.
I know I shouldn’t complain, given that we could be having an ice storm or something else miserable. But I’ve got a birthday coming up this week, and I just don’t like it when it doesn’t feel like winter on my birthday. When I was a kid, I dreamed of snow on my birthday—and actually got it a few times.
🤞🏻 for you being back in Scotland.
We reckoned it was a pretty duff winter if we didn't get any days off school for snow, but it never lay long enough for us to get fed up of it.
Thank goodness for AC!!
There was a time that I wouldn't even think of turning the AC on until June, or on occasion, May. It is now an all year around expense.
Still - 89°!!!
Right now it's 82 outside, and my oak tree has bloomed and is covered with new, spring-green leaves!! It's so pretty!!! I can see the honeybees working the last of the catkins. There were far fewer bees this year. Years past, I could hear them humming all the way here in the house! I love those little critters.
I didn't go into his circumstances with her, nor can I here, due to confidentiality. But having been a missionary in this particular ethnic community for 30 years, and having handled any number of abuse cases (Yes, I know what a mandated reporter is, and how to use the hotline, thank you very much!), I'm a bit flabberghasted that she assumed the worst of me.
I have hastily backed out. We'll go commercial, if we need to--I have just learned paid people exist for this stuff.
Mr. Lamb will ride to the rescue in a couple hours. In the meantime, I'm at work. I cannot attend the dentist, Oh Noes, and I'm sure you're all just heartbroken for me. (not that I escape forever, they've simply put off the evil day by a week or so)
I'm reminded of a Christmas holiday that was ruined for me when I was a kid because I had an appointment to have some teeth taken out just after the New Year, and every so often I'd remember about it, and start to worry!
That's quite cold ...
May they both, and the other victims, rest in peace.