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Anybody want to lay odds as to whether they'll locate the source of the mouse nest smell?
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Anybody want to lay odds as to whether they'll locate the source of the mouse nest smell?
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Howard remains number one, and to tell the truth I have just a bit of a soft spot for little mus musae, as I am sure listener does as well.
ReplyDeleteAw, puddle--I am flattered that you would dig up and post my Dean For America personal blurb, overoptimistic though it was.
We are looking to get some more rain…I was talking with an attorney in Eureka (well up on the North Coast), and he said it was and had been raining. When they say "rain" up there it is a lot more than a heavy mist…a heavy mist might be an inch or two a day.
listener-- The last (make that "most recent time") I was in my home town the old movie theater had been torn down, and the place where it had been looked so small compared to what I remembered. The mortuary next to it had been turned into a beer parlor for tourists (owned by the brewery across the street where the International Harvester dealership was). I think I would feel altogether weird having a beer there… but the flatlanders don't know any different.
Got a nice payment today for a job I did four months ago…better hand it over to my good wife quickly so I don't spend it on something nice but unnecessary. Gloverall duffle coat? MacBook Air? Can't justify either… already set aside enough to cover the income taxes (AKA the price of civilization). Maybe a quick look at the political news, and then to bed.
Oh--I'm not sure about yesterday (that WAS a long time ago, after all), but toady I could easily stand and otherwise get about just as normal at work. When I kneel down for some reason and then stand normally I can still feel my knee talking to be a bit, but hack, it's only been a month since I visited the arthropod, and maybe two weeks since I truly needed crutches. Amazing. This weekend Miyoko will let me do some spraying in the yard, weather permitting.
TTFN
Alan, I think we were all hopeful then. Twas actually a joy. The energy was amazing.
ReplyDeletelistener, no bets, but lots of mouse nest mercies.
Chilly, but well over freezing, and going to be warmer than yesterday -- which was a nice day.
I was struck as I was hauling water yesterday at how much lighter the buckets were than last year. . . .
Happy that you don't have to drive so far for car service, listener.
ReplyDeleteWow! Just had a really *hot* little set of storms whoosh past to the near north. The sky almost black, and in the center, sun, and the sycamores lit up like candles against the dark sky. Lots and lots of thundertigers, but only a sprinkling of actual rain. Watching the storms on radar was breathtaking. Whew!
ReplyDeleteI saw that and sent good vibes into the Universe in your behalf! Maybe that's part of why the sycamores lit up. ;-)
ReplyDeleteWe are too!! It's AMAZING!!
ReplyDeleteAnd the verdict is... "Maybe."
That is, they found NO more nest material of any kind, but acknowledged the smell from the former nest material was still in there. So, with Mah*Sweetie's permission, they sprayed everything they could reach with some sort of neutraliser, and changed out the microfilter again. Cost: $144.
Last month we changed the microfilter ourselves for $27. I'm not sure it really helps to "neutralise" the irritating smell with a chemical spray. What was I breathing before and what am I breathing now? But it *does* smell better, and let's face it, cars are made of vinyl and plastic and other chemical stuff. We'll see how it does once I take it out on the interstate. At least I don't have to feel bad about giving someone a ride now!
Yeah, the bucket to strength ratio has to be a lot better this year. So happy for your much improved quality of life, puddle! ♥
ReplyDelete= And thanks so much for the mercies!! =
ReplyDeleteI may also have a soft spot as you suggest, Alan, but I would need to understand what "mus musae" means. :-)
ReplyDeleteEww! I agree with you that turning a mortuary into a beer parlour would definitely turn me off!!
Adrienne Rich, thank you. You can rest now.
ReplyDeleteIn Those Years
In those years, people will say, we lost track
of the meaning of we, of you
we found ourselves
reduced to I
and the whole thing became
silly, ironic, terrible:
we were trying to live a personal life
and yes, that was the only life
we could bear witness to
But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged
into our personal weather
They were headed somewhere else but their beaks and pinions drove
along the shore, through the rags of fog
where we stood, saying I.
Could well be, lol! That skyscape is one of my most enduring favorites, and that is a troo.
ReplyDeleteBut when then-President Clinton awarded her the National Medal of Arts in 1997, Rich refused to accept it, citing the administration’s “cynical politics.”
ReplyDelete“The radical disparities of wealth and power in America are widening at a devastating rate,” she wrote to the administration. “A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.”
In 2003, Rich and other poets refused to attend a White House symposium on poetry to protest to U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Well bless her heart. She said, and did, the right thing.
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