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taters {{{}}} I am scared for you too, and I hope it all works out.

I got some a couple of weeks ago. Let me know what you think.

I was not very impressed, too dry.

I got up early and went in to the museum, even though I’m off today. I noticed an exhibit was down at the end of the day yesterday, and there’s a state-wide conference happing at our place this weekend. Can’t have shit broken when everyone else is coming to visit. Fixed the thing and helped open, then I skived off. My boss was quite surprised to see me, and now I know she doesn’t get in until a half hour late on the weekend.

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I can’t imagine the misery you are going through. It’s one thing to read about this as an article online or hear about it on the news, but this first-hand account is just painful to read. I sincerely hope things work out for you, and know that whatever it is that you do in the service of our country is at least appreciated by those of us who have been there.

A slow day today. The wife made noises about going to a demonstration somewhere in the city. I nixed it, as it’s cold and windy and I do worry about bad actors showing up to disrupt things. I’m too old to engage in a physical confrontation and can’t afford to get sick.

I went online to the SSA site and established my bona fides there. Hopefully that will take care of any “fraud” nonsense. It’s actually very easy to do and I recommend that you all do it. You’ll need to upload a photo of your driver’s license and of yourself. I also downloaded my work history from the site, in case it gets “lost”. Man, I can’t believe how little money I made in the military. After 23 years there, in 1990 I was still only making $27K/year as an E-7. In the first year after I retired (from the military), my salary doubled. I’ve been extremely fortunate to end up with a healthy bank account in retirement, making some smart moves along the way.

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Spring is coming! I took the garbage out to the wheelie bin in my dressing gown and flip-flops without sox. Still had to walk over the hard-packed snow, in -5 C, but it’s spring!

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That family I mentioned, well, there are probably hundreds of descendants I am having cousins with. The children of the first couple, in 1722, had seven sons. There were also two daugther but they died before they married. I am descended from the son named Adam. There was a John Adam Surname who was prominent in both state and federal government in the 1880’s who would be a third cousin five time removed. And on a PBS show about Annie Oakley there was a commentator with this name that I contacted through her professorship at a university in North Carolina. Turns out it was her married name bit she put me in contact with her husband who was into the family history. He was descended from yet another of the sons. We are seventh cousins once removed.

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Folks, we have word from the windswept fields Capitol of Nebraska.

She writes:

"Please post on MMP when you get a chance. I picked my sign especially in soladarity with taters and other mumpers sweating their jobs.

Nebraska State Capital. Lincoln. There were a thousand people there and more coming. The first one on January was 20."

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Our brave night nurse & her sign:

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:heart: :orange_heart: :yellow_heart: :green_heart: :blue_heart: :purple_heart:

Thanks for sharing Boo’s pics!

And THANK YOU for all who are marching today or supporting others who are marching.
:heart_hands:

Today was almost 70, and Sunday it’s supposed to go below freezing. Wacky weather.

Went to the streetfood festival and had a Jack Daniels Smash Burger, Tibetan vegetarian momos, a Sha phaley (something like a fried potsticker with meat), Poffertjes with strawberries and Nutella ( Poffertje are small pancakes - it’s a Dutch dessert) and a Coke. Beats cooking. Hubby mowed the grass for the first time this year and then we talked with my parents.

Sun’s just setting with a beautiful pink and blue striped sky.

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Neighbor drove his truck over, and after many discouraging { deafening silence } non-starts, she suddenly woke up.

He told me to let it idle at least ten minutes, to charge up.

I gave it a solid half an hour …

Got on clean socks’n’undies, clean bra, semi-clean pants & outer shirt … just gotta brush my mouth stones teeth, slap on earrings & a kerchief, grab my “leftovers for lunch” bag, and go do it all again.

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Howdy and I am home. The games went fine, clouds and a good breeze kept things from being too hot (it’s about 80F) and everything went according to plan, the U7’s tied 5-5 and the U10’s won 3-2, so a good day for the coach. Still feel good (especially after two BLT’s on rye) so signed up to do a 12U game at 4pm, so off I go in about an hour. Feels good to be out and about after being pretty much tied up with the house issues this past week.

Now to catch up with the news of the day…

Pavo, The days are better with sleep. Stay dry. And good luck with the garage.

nellie, sad news for Mr. Max’s person, I hope something can be done for her.

boo fae, you have the best weekends…

FCM, just take it easy; I don’t worry about death so much anymore, I have adopted the Islamic term “In’shalla”, or ‘as God wills it’, even if I’m non-religious. All any of us can do is live forever or die trying. Hooefully the sewing will help get you out of your funk.

{{{Taters}}}, the situation has to be tearing at you, I hope it does get resolved in your favor, but so many have been hurt by this, just sorry you are hurting too.

shoe, hope you got jumped (the car of course…) and I see it was effective; still would get it checked out though. And thanks for the photos.

OK, need to change costumes and get back into Referee Mode, so take care.

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I’m in the upper Midwest like you. I spent 2 hours at our demonstration at the State Capitol building. Yep, it was cold and windy but you could dress for it. A thousand or more people there, leaning heavily towards seniors, lots of them, grey hair everywhere, some walkers, canes, wheelchairs. Hundreds of cars drove by honking in support, giving the thumbs up. Some cars and trucks just drove past looking but no hostility. Out of hundreds and hundreds, one truck had a Trump flag flying in the bed, one truck coal-rolled us, one car flipped us the bird. Not a single counter-protestor showed up on foot, not one. Two police cars rolled past occasionally, no honks or middle fingers from them. A big drone flew over the crowd once-not sure if it was a news one or a police one monitoring crowd size. Nebraska is known for Nebraska Nice but not as famously as Minnesota Nice. I bet you’d be just fine. My crowd was overwhelmingly mature and both young and old looked out for one another, lots of Veterans Against Trump showed up, so when you go wear your veteran hat, people respect that and it makes an impression. Plus I can’t imagine a newly retired forty some year old veteran tolerating anybody hassling a senior citizen within their eyesight.

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Thank you Boo JtC and everyone else who went out to do this. I’m very glad to hear that there was little conflict with the, let’s just call them, others.

Pretty quiet day here, after my impromptu opening of the museum. 2 loads of laundry, and after all the talk yesterday am prepping sloppy joes. But I’m gonna do something more along the lines of a sloppy joe patty melt.

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Definitely spring! Sat out on my front porch, sipping tea in shirtsleeves; +5 C.

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Wifey, RN’s patient wasn’t feeling well, so he didn’t come. We drove around looking for a place to eat breakfast, and settled on The Little Cheerful. As usual, I had the birria omelette and The Missus had biscuits & gravy with two over-easy eggs. We were over an hour early to the rally, so we got a good parking space. We hung out in the car, and the protest area was filling up when we got out. We took our chairs and found a spot near a guy who’d brought his chair and a very sweet dog whose name was Grace. He said he wanted to ‘go with Grace.’

Good rally, lots of signs, but rather crowded. WO2 Wifey was wearing her Gulf War Veteran hat, and four people came up to her to thank her for her service. Two of them shook her hand.

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Saw this on FB - big crowd at the Mall in DC. A 50+ mile trek one way plus fighting for parking or fighting for a seat on Metro would have been too much for me to deal with, but I was there in spirit.

Forgot to mention something amazing happened last night! I was in my recliner and Ziva came over, so I lifted her into my lap and she stayed there letting me skritch her!!! I kept waiting for her to bolt, but she was happily purring and even climbed to go face-to-face with me. And boy-howdy, was there hair! Every stroke down her back brought forth shedded fluff. The curse of a long-haired cat, I guess.

I know there was something else, but it slipped out of my brain before it got to my fingers. Oh well…

And, for those who are interested, the new bimini:
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Howdy Y’all! Brace yourselves for this… we got productive this mornin’ and took a bunch of cardboard to the recyclin’ place. Given how for weeks we have been sayin’ we need to do this, this was a momentous occasion. Naturally we had to reward ourselves, so we went to the little bar for burgers and beers. This led to nappage. Felt a touch of scurvy and malaria comin’ on which was remedied by a couple of gin and tonics. Tomorrow is brunch Sunday, so a poke roast is in the slow cooker and will be made into bbq. Not makin’ a dessert cause word is out about several already bein’ made. We bought Hawaiian rolls and have sauce for folks to make little bbq sammiches.

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Hey ya’ll. It was a good day at the capital. It didn’t rain and there was a much larger crowd than I expected. Most of us were old but there were a few young people there as well. It didn’t rain, but it was super humid.

Things were very calm which is rather disappointing to me. I was hoping that someone would have told the king to call out the National Guard or something, but nobody seemed to be taking any notice.

While I was gone, hubs put new mini-blinds on the kitchen window and it looks much nicer than before. One of my pots of bulbs has hyacinths sprouting, or it had. Despite that pot living outside, hubs didn’t want them anywhere near the fuzzbutts so he pulled them up and threw them in the garbage. I’m not sure if I’m mad that he did that without talking to me first (its just a few flower bulbs, not a new muscle car) or amazed that he recognized the plants mixed among the tulips and daffodils.

Looking good!

Crowded is good. It is much better than empty!

Your job is important and worth fighting for. I want children to grow up healthy, well fed and well educated so they can get good jobs and finance my retirement. Children need museums and libraries almost as much as they need school lunches and vaccinations.

I will probably lose, but at least I’ll go down fighting. I’m an old, childless postmenopausal woman. At this time in my life, I don’t really have that much to lose and us old women are starting to lose patience. Right Boo!

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Thanks to all who marched today. I was with youse in spirit.

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You go!

Yep! The whole rainbow!

You folks in the far north sure have a warped sense of spring weather! :slight_smile:

Maybe she was born to be an only pet.

Well, JtC, BBBoo et al inspired me (as well as the RCDP notification). I participated in the last hour of the protest in the 'Boro. The age range was almost evenly mixed between young voters (Middle Tennessee State University is nearby) and us old farts. There were ~500 of us, which isn’t bad for being outside of the state capitol and being in a ruby red state. While most of my participation will likely still be writing e-mails and letters, sometimes showing up to town halls and buying lunch for my great niece and her bestie when they march in Nashville, I can see myself doing this again.

After I left, I hit the outlet grocery (they cut their own meat, but other grocery items are outlet items). I got out for ~$75, which wasn’t bad considering that I got a bunch of meat, some aigs (for $2.99 a dozen! SCORE!!!), 3# of espresso beans, TP and enough snack nuts to fill up the snack jar. That should do me for 1-2 months on most of the items.

Keep up the fight!

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It was just a short block, so it was hard to move through the crowd. One person estimated there were 2,000 people there at noon, when the rally started. People kept coming in. Someone that he’d talked to an EMT who was there supporting the event. The EMT thought there were between 3,000 and 4,000. (Speaking of EMTs, one woman was evacuated by EMTs and Police when she collapsed. She was up on the steps with the speakers.) One of the event organisers spoke with a drone operator, who estimated there were 4,000 people.

The current estimated population of Bellingham, WA is 97,000 people. If 4,000 people were indeed at the rally, then that’s 4% of the population. I’d call that a good turnout. :slight_smile:

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right! right! right!