north of Durango - anywhere near Silverton?

I'm not in a cult either, but I still have my Jesse Jackson for President 1988 button

We used the pills on a cat in the past (I am not good at pilling cats) but it wasn't very successful, then have done the iodine treatment for more recent hyperthyroid cats, but current cat Mollie is too old for a clinic stay for radioactive iodine, so we have gone to the gel with success. Good luck!

Our cat is too old for radioactive iodine treatment, so we get a compounded prescription of 'Methimazole in Anh Lipoderm EZ Dose Micro Transdermal Gel' from Wedgewood Pharmacy by mail (needs a vet prescription) that we put a measured amount in her ear each day. Works well, easy to apply.

Thank you for doing this!

I keep waiting to see Green-eyed Lady again. No news? It's always nice to see Narvik.

Some of my best friends are trees. Of course I hug them.

I quit eating beef several years ago. Climate change, among other reasons, like factory farming, grazing on public lands, etc.

Is anyone else starting to wonder if Mike Johnson is also in the Epstein files?

And I definitely agree with you - it was a great protest!

It's Kah Tai

Yay, us!

Already did. Cancelled all Amazon connections last year, never did Prime, stream nothing but Pandora. I hope more folks join in.

Yeah, I have one of those 'antifa' flags too, from my father's coffin. He was in Pearl Harbor. We got to hold it up for the procession of 'the Wall that Heals' last week. And the Indivisible 'No Kings' rally in June.

some of my best friends are trees

It is well worth the visit. It was most appreciated that our local folks were able to bring it here for all of us.

Wise that you said 'the chair' not 'my chair'. We all know who owns all the chairs in any house with cats.

Fifty+ years ago when I moved to Hawaii, Kaiser offered health plans affordable to college students.

We stopped in at our local pharmacy for flu and Covid vaccines today. The new Covid vaccine was finally approved for us old folks so not yet available. The pharmacist said it would be a little while since the FBI had just approved it. We all pondered for a moment, and then all said 'FDA'. We hope.

We did exactly the same thing!

Your suggestion is good. I was thinking more of unconsolidated sediment...you know...mud. But even mud has great value and character.

Snopes says this is false. Darn. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

Schist is a beautiful rock developed under moderate metamorphism. Our front walk is schist from a formation in Idaho. Please don't demean it in any kind of comparison to a certain politician who is nothing but sedimentary. Now, if you left out that second 's' in schist...

There are certainly lots of Spotted Towhees up here on the Olympic Peninsula as well.

Here on the Olympic Peninsula, we have Grindelia integrifolia. Do you know if it also concentrates selenium or other heavy metals?

Okay, aren't there any birds in western Idaho? My blue elderberry clusters never look like that by the time they are ripe! Those are gorgeous. Nice mountains, too.

Mountain ash are beautiful! Our city has some non-native hawthorns with red berries as street trees. The berries stay put all winter until there is nothing else to eat. Red berries available in January don't suggest appeal to birds. Native black hawthorn berries disappear as soon as they ripen.

Your 'book' looks just like my 'computer screen', except the calico part is about 15 years older and named Mollie.

Sambucus cerulea, blue elderberry, showing varying stages of ripening blue clusters of fruit and a little heat damage from the recent minor heat dome, Quimper Peninsula.

Blue elderberry, Sambucus cerulea, in the garden, waiting for the cedar waxwings to show up. Finches may save them a little fruit if they hurry.

Narvik does a pretty good 'you've abandoned me!' expression, doesn't he?