Every day I make a "To Do" list. Sunday I finished making a dozen felt pancakes for a pancake party game I make for the Pantry. I looked at Monday's "To Do" list and there at the bottom was "iron pancakes" and I realized how very strange that would look to others. I do iron them to flatten them out because they're a little puffy after sewing.
Every once in a while I look at what I have in my shopping cart as I approach the grocery checkout stand, and it occurs to me that the combination could give folks very strange ideas about me...
As I arrived at work this morning the A/C repairman was starting up onto the roof; we have much nicer weather (albeit not cool by any means) in the lab today. I like it. High temp today was allegedly 113F.
Well, one must take precautions. Don't need tire chains, though, unless you head up into the mountains... And it cools off into the 70's at night, or very close to it on a scortcher. (Home gardening tip: tomato flowers don't set fruit when nighttime temperatures are above 80F.) Us melanocytically challenged folk need sunscreen, wide-brimmed hats, long sleeves and trousers when outside during such days if we are not going to do our imitation of a boiled octopus.
"Trump has been ruled by compulsions, obsessions and vindictiveness, expressed nearly daily on Twitter. He has demonstrated an egotism that borders on solipsism. His political skills as president have been close to nonexistent. His White House is divided, incompetent and chaotic, and key administration jobs remain unfilled. His legislative agenda has gone nowhere. He has told constant, childish, refuted, uncorrected lies, and demanded and habituated deception among his underlings. He has humiliated and undercut his staff while requiring and rewarding flattery. He has promoted self-serving conspiracy theories. He has displayed pathetic, even frightening, ignorance on policy matters foreign and domestic. He has inflicted his ethically challenged associates on the nation. He is dead to the poetry of language and to the nobility of the political enterprise, viewing politics as conquest rather than as service."
Such is the verdict of Michael Gerson, writing in the Washington Post. He is not some liberal critic but a proud Republican who was a top aide to President George W. Bush.
Every day I make a "To Do" list. Sunday I finished making a dozen felt pancakes for a pancake party game I make for the Pantry. I looked at Monday's "To Do" list and there at the bottom was "iron pancakes" and I realized how very strange that would look to others. I do iron them to flatten them out because they're a little puffy after sewing.
ReplyDeleteI love it! I never knew you ironed the pancakes! Talk about thorough!
DeleteEvery once in a while I look at what I have in my shopping cart as I approach the grocery checkout stand, and it occurs to me that the combination could give folks very strange ideas about me...
ReplyDeleteAs I arrived at work this morning the A/C repairman was starting up onto the roof; we have much nicer weather (albeit not cool by any means) in the lab today. I like it. High temp today was allegedly 113F.
--Alan
=113F !!!???!!!=
Delete* Whoooooweeee! *
Well, one must take precautions. Don't need tire chains, though, unless you head up into the mountains... And it cools off into the 70's at night, or very close to it on a scortcher. (Home gardening tip: tomato flowers don't set fruit when nighttime temperatures are above 80F.) Us melanocytically challenged folk need sunscreen, wide-brimmed hats, long sleeves and trousers when outside during such days if we are not going to do our imitation of a boiled octopus.
Delete--Alan
"Trump has been ruled by compulsions, obsessions and vindictiveness, expressed nearly daily on Twitter. He has demonstrated an egotism that borders on solipsism. His political skills as president have been close to nonexistent. His White House is divided, incompetent and chaotic, and key administration jobs remain unfilled. His legislative agenda has gone nowhere. He has told constant, childish, refuted, uncorrected lies, and demanded and habituated deception among his underlings. He has humiliated and undercut his staff while requiring and rewarding flattery. He has promoted self-serving conspiracy theories. He has displayed pathetic, even frightening, ignorance on policy matters foreign and domestic. He has inflicted his ethically challenged associates on the nation. He is dead to the poetry of language and to the nobility of the political enterprise, viewing politics as conquest rather than as service."
ReplyDeleteSuch is the verdict of Michael Gerson, writing in the Washington Post. He is not some liberal critic but a proud Republican who was a top aide to President George W. Bush.
Sounds like Mr. Gerson is not pleased...
DeleteAlan
Happy summer solstice in a half hour.
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