Random Thoughts

The still living Israeli hostages have returned home.  A few thousand Palestinian detainees have done the same.  This is excellent news and, like President Biden, I will give FFOTUS his due.  

Remembering that 135 hostages were released under Biden before the negotiations fell through, and that neither of the warring parties are signatories to the deal, and that the Rafa Gate is closed, and Hamas is returning along with the displaced in Gaza..... I don't have much hope for a lasting peace.

Still, those separated from loved ones and home are now reunited, and that, in and of itself, is a good thing.

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No Kings protests are preemptively described as Hate America protests.  

If I hated America I would stay home on Saturday and be grateful that FFOTUS and his minions are doing their dirty work.  

No one who truly loves America would attack freedom of assembly and freedom of speech, right? 

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A raptor just flew in front of my window, not 10' away, carrying dinner in its talons.  

That is not something I saw in Chicago.

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Yesterday it poured.  All day.  Big drops.  The Prince Scholars didn't have outdoor recess, but they had to walk outside to get to and from the cafeteria building.  

Ms Sparkles, kindergarten teacher extraordinaire, told them about the puddles.  She also hoped that none of them would be eaten by a crocodile.  

There was a moment of silence before the laughter set in.  

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Yesterday, Big Cuter sent me a pattern for a frog hat, following on the Portland Frogs who are "terrorizing" Kristi Noem and the ICE agents guarding the citadel.

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I finished a kid size one just before I sat down to type to you.  I'll make a grown up one before I mail the package tomorrow, so they have it for Saturday's protest. If only I had known about this project on Sunday, when football reigned and I finished my last library book.  

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It's finally cool enough to plant seeds in Grandma's Garden.  I'll buy olla balls tomorrow and we'll fill the raised beds and mark out the spacing and put seeds in the soil.

Timing is everything.  75-100 days to harvest at maturity puts us right around Winter Break.  

What fun is that?  

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I've been fantasizing about getting an electric bike.  I don't know why.  I have no friends who would/could ride with me.  I don't have a helmet.  The bikes are expensive and heavy.

But watching the world go by with the wind in my face and my legs doing the bare minimum to get up hills is pretty cool to contemplate.

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This was truly random.  Thanks for sticking with it.