Yes, I'm owned by 6 parakeets right now. All rehomed; all cute.

I'm grateful to be retired, Jaye, so I can indulge.

Have you read Follett's novels?

Hi Bonnie, how are you?

I think i read the 2nd Kingsbridge novel before reading the first. Some of their punishments were hard to read, they were so brutal.

Thanks, Frenchie...would have answered sooner but had to get my birds in their cages.

The Kingsbridge & Century Trilogies kept me up late many nights.

Perfect skirt for the occasion, Jaye.

Hello #FiresideFriends & all others sharing tonight.
My bookcases are overflowing as books are like good friends to me.
Favorites are Robert Ludlum thrillers - think Jason Bourne - & anything by Ken Follett.

I'd give up a pair of socks or 2.🤣🤣

Crap*

This is such a travesty. Supposedly showing support for Iran's people but giving AI strap on Americans.

That's rampant where I live. It is called, "my car is safe...everyone else is on their own".

So proud of my adopted state. Go CT!

Read that till it sinks in folks. Two people died that day & two were seriously injured. POTUS supposedly got a bloody ear that miraculously healed scarless.

Yup, that's all of it. Great job.

Ya think?

There’s something mentally wrong with the President of the United States.

Your dog is a force of nature!

Hi Jaye...have happy traveling adventures!

He's being propped up...the way I see it he has 3 masters:
The Heritage Foundation
Netanyahu
The Oligarchs
They will let him say whatever demented stuff he wants.

Remembering the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970. We walked to school or rode bikes, cleaned up the HS grounds, any activity to help Mother Earth survive for the next generations. It was just the beginning, but now fossil fuels are still with us.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

NYT article (unlocked version) on the SCOTUS Shadow Docket.
Anyone else curious about why this was published just prior to Earth Day?
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Thanks for the thought, but people keep posting the link as a 'gift'. Meanwhile, I still can't read past the first paragraph.
If you could please actually post a gift link, that would be great.
I do have a print copy from yesterday which has the article, so I'm good.

Thank you Rep Khanna...I hope you also told her that the 'pallets' of cash she refers to contained Iran's money.

More like America never.

And STILL he grins while telling the American public that we don't deserve to eat.

When, when are we going to create safe spaces for victims to come forward? Where they feel they can actually gain credibility? I'm so sick of the double standards.

Love the first one. It was me this morning as my CO detector/smoke alarm went off @ 3 am. No CO or smoke thankfully...

The DOJ is now 5 month in breach of releasing the Epstein files.

Holding these criminals accountable should be the Nuremberg of our time.