Charbonneau at Tanasbourne near Windemere by Salishan

 

So I sat down today and I thought to myself 'Self, you haven't read 'The Redstocking Manifesto' since you were 20.'  So I found a copy of that sapsucker online and I read it.  Know what?  I still agree with it.  Except for the part where everyone's problems have to be worked out as a community. Otherwise, we need that shit today and it needs to be shouted from the mountaintops.

.....from which vine I swing gracefully to the subject of Idaho.

Oh Idaho.

Today I was walking down to my favorite female owned and operated business, gonna git me some duck eggs, and at the crosswalk, as I politely waited at the corner, all four directions of traffic came to a halt, and I was waved on with many a big beardy smile and a-twiddling of 'g'head!' fingies on the wheel. And I do not have a problem with being allowed to cross at an intersection. Allah did not mean for people to do burnouts on me. No, I noticed because I was in a mood to notice shit like that, having just read 'The Redstocking Manifesto' again.

After all these years, are acts of male courtesy like that just a matter of 'Grown People Being Nice To Old People'?  Or is it 'The Same Old Shit Where We Pretend To Be Nice To Old Ladies So We Don't Get Arrested When What We Actually Want To Do Is To Burn Them All At The Stake Because They  Aren't Pretty Anymore Plus They Can Be Cranky'?

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Which brings me to what's really bugging me:  I have to get an operation in four days.  They're going in through my throat to get to my cervical vertebrae, and then they're going to pry them apart and Dremel out the spinal canal for a few inches, suck out all the crud, and then release me back into the wild. 

Why the rush? Yes, I have spinal stenosis, like I mentioned awhile back - it's just that none of us realized how severe it was. And it's gnarly in there.  Cue the surgeon with the DremelRRRRRRIIINGDEDINGDINGDINGDINGrrrrrrrr *sound of chunks hitting the walls*

In another year, they'll be doing the same thing to my lower back. 

My, how I'm looking forward to that. I mean of course I am; I can barely walk some days, but still...it's surgery. In a hospital. 

God how I wish I'd never seen Hellraiser II.

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Hell yeah, Rogers.

                                                             

No longer titty pink!

!!!HOORAY!!!!!

And some coleus that need to be potted up.

How guns are sold here. Just kind of stacked on grocery shelves, no clerk, little kids roaming around with boxes of ammo....

 

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Milton-Freewater After Dark

 This:

RANDOM SHOTS WHAT I SAVED

Seen here:

....better keep that problem weenis under control, ya perv

BEHOLD

the Jack Links Bigfoot.  A sexy beast indeed.

The full image of what is on my John Cleese T-Shirt. Men fear it, women swoon.

BEHOLD: The picture what I tooked offline showing the old Rancho FirstNations 4 feets underwater - circled by a circle up there on the center right.

OMGWTFBBQ.

ALSO NAKED vvv and including A POME

Motherfucker was crazy about guac, children.

If only Micky would find me some. 

Fuckin' rat.

BEHOLD:  Leonard Nimoy has recipes. 

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You'd think Spring would have sprung here. We've experienced warmer temperatures, things are budding and blooming and all that happy crap, but NO.  No, coming in about 45 minutes there will be a sudden 'freeze event' occurring - the temperature is going to plummet to 20f and stay that way until 9pm, and then an hour later it's going to do the same damn thing and last until 10am tomorrow morning.

WTF.

We've also experienced at least four 'downburst' events. One just happened a half-hour ago. The sky gets dark, the wind drops, and then suddenly the rain comes cannoning out of the sky, the thunder is non-stop, and cars have to pull over to the side of the road. This one, like all the rest, lasted about ten minutes, and then all of a sudden someone hit the switch and hey! No more rain! No more hail! The sun is shining!

I am trying to grow tomato plants in containers, and I had to go hustling outside and run the things in 
like a noodge, like I'm raising baby chickens or something, while the rain beat down. And now we're expecting not just one but TWO FREAK FREEZES and I am just done. 

Honestly what does the Universe expect of me. 

Shit. 

Please.

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OK it is forty minutes after I wrote the weather stuff up ^^^ there.  The Temperature is supposed to be dropping.  It is not. It has risen to 60f.

The sky is once again black.

The wind is howling (actual noise!) in from the West, straight down the street.

It blew my doormat away.

                                                   FUCK THIS DRAMA

I am going to go crack a beer.

You should too.