Thursday, June 11, 2026

The Lilacs Were Amazing This Year!


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  1. Listener, hoping Spinnaker is better today♥

    Susan, did you ever find your doll hair?

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    1. Spinnaker is still acting like herself, but also still barfing up food. So we are back to giving her bland and watery chicken broth from boiling chicken. We give her the chicken too, but she won't eat it. However, she now has a vet appointment for tomorrow at 3:00pm and we imagine the bloodwork will tell us what's going on. Hoping it's just that her tummy is recovering slowly from the antibiotic and laxative and not something worse. Perhaps the vet had something to calm her stomach and let her eat again.

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    2. Give her a kiss on the head from me.

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  2. via The Other 98%

    (I will post the related photo out front shortly.)

    Someone burned the numbers 8647 into the National Mall lawn big enough to be photographed from the top of the Washington Monument, and the trump administration is absolutely losing it. The markings show up as dead brown grass against the green lawn near the World War II Memorial, appearing sometime between June 5 and Thursday morning, and authorities have no idea yet who did it or how. Grass samples have been collected for testing, which suggests the culprit likely used a herbicide, salt, or some other grass-killing agent.

    For the uninitiated, "8647" is resistance shorthand that's been circulating since trump's second term kicked off. "86" is old restaurant slang for getting rid of something, and "47" is trump's spot in the presidential lineup. Right now the "8" and "7" are clearly visible while the "6" and "4" are fainter, which tracks perfectly with how grass killer works. It doesn't happen overnight. Those numbers could be getting sharper by the day, slowly coming into focus like a message on a timer which would be absolutely hilarious.

    The timing feels almost too deliberate. The National Mall is about to host a 16-day "Great American State Fair" starting June 25, and a UFC event lands there this Sunday on trump's birthday. The whole space is about to be crawling with cameras. If this was applied in stages, whoever did it may have engineered a protest that gets more visible and undeniable with each passing day, right in the middle of trump's own celebration of himself.

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  3. Nope, Cat, did not find the blue bag. However I have a giant stash in the basement and I was able to find enough hair colors to keep on going. Someday I'll find that blue bag and go " Huh. What's this for?"

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    1. Well, as long as you have what you need, I suppose that's all you can ask for.

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