Canadian senior here. We have the same problem with conservatives here imitating the Trumpian style.
Back in the day local conservatives lived in fear of the voters, sticking to fiscal responsibility and left Education and Health Care alone (we all have kids! We all have grandmas!).
Or a shrike.
That’s not a sparrow’s beak. Maybe a sparrow hawk.
Two generations and none of them like raisins.
I love the texture and the gentle caramelization.
My sister blames better preservation and year round availability of fresh fruit.
When I was a kid the pomegranate was a once a year delicacy.
Only raisins were year round.
Yes, it took a couple days for the cultures to come through. Diagnosed and treated.
I watched three ambulances come in with gurneys during my three hour wait. I knew they beat me out.
The wait is part of the process.
I derived pleasure that the ER doctor kept ordering more tests. I KNEW something was wrong.
Yup, that describes my last weekend. Plus two days as an outpatient. Happy to say it seems I am now out of the woods.
Software I am energetically divesting myself of at home include Microsoft, Adobe.
Every software I daily interact with are clogging up their opening screens with AI offers to “help”.
I think these companies dug themselves in so deep they lost daylight.
It’s now a sunk lost race to the bottom.
Do they jump off the stage at the end?
This is my Miley. Never left me alone.
And this.
God created man as male and female he made them. Genesis 1:27.
It’s the stirring, isn’t it?
Scolded NATO for not doing its part. That may play for the home audience, but not abroad.
Well there’s a leader we have more in common.
Now I must make my own. I have a perfectly seasoned cast iron pan.
Impressive toy-toy collection.
Same, same. Considering the patties are essentially jerky, freshness is relative.
Caught out of town on Christmas Eve, I walked up to a drive through window to order a meal.
There was some discussion on whether I could be served.
Not perfect, but that doesn’t matter. We belong together.
Nice long history of the Hungarian power to resist.
The last two times they paid in blood.
I surely hope that the World supports them if Russia tries to interfere militarily.
Waiting for the Great Leap Forward.
Miley the Staffy cross asking with her eyes, “What’s up?”
This is our forever dog Miley.
She is as clingy as she is fierce.
She would defend the household to the death.
She never steals cheese, always says please. She lives for exercise, and barks at phantoms.
Dog leaning under rocking chair for her toy.
She is Very Sad. Her toy-toy is out of reach. Surely in a house of Simians with opposable thumbs, one of us will sympathize.
THAT’s what happens when people learn nothing from history.
That little nose is going!
Lawn ornaments. He will end up getting something lighter for the big commute.
When prices go up like this I call them lawn ornaments.
He will get a third beater car for longer commutes.
I play “find it” with Miley every day.