The rain has been intermittent but I will get outside today and either go walking or visit the summer festival that is open and running a few blocks from where I live.

I kind of like that summer festival that comes around each year about this time. There are rides for the kids. I hate the rides for myself because I do not consider them to be safe for me. There is sugar-coated kettle corn, ice cream, music, games of chance, things to see and things to do. It is not really fancy but it beats the boredom of sitting at home.

My break fast was spinach and a pork chop. I prepare my spinach with onion, garlic, butter and sour cream …. sometime a little chopped tomato, and of course, salt and pepper and a dash of cooking sherry. Wonderful stuff as a side dish or even as an entrée sometimes.

Like everybody, I need to eat more vegetables. I need a lot more green vegetables because I sometimes suspect that my Vitamin K might be a little low.

My hair is about the length where I need another haircut. But since the pandemic is still on the rise here, I still refuse to go to a barber shop because I do not trust the barbers to sanitize their instruments between customers and very few, if any, of our mostly right wing citizens around hear ever wear masks … and I doubt it all that many of them have gotten their covid shots either … so I do not wish to go to barber shops just yet and risk getting infected by some fools who refuse to take care of themselves.

My answer to the hair cut is that I give myself a cut whenever needed. I have a special instrument, a sort of rounded hair cutting shear, with a revolving blade and some length guards — It cuts hair down to around One inch in height … saves me a lot of money …. but I do dream of the day when it will be safe to return to the regular barber shops again.

The grass is starting to grow like crazy again too. Now the people who trap the moles will be coming back along with the people who keep our expansive lawns so green and pretty with their stinking chemicals. I am almost afraid to go our into the yards or the back 40 acres barefoot anymore because of all the chemicals used to keep the pests and the insects at bay. God only knows what they have done to my once beautiful and pure fish pond. But it must not be too bad, because there are still a few carp swimming around in there … and some turtles that like to climb out of the water and sun themselves on the concrete near the gazebo.

The ducks seem to have returned to the pond too. I recently had one of the ducks come to our back patio to drink out of a doggie dish that I had put out for our doberman. I was lucky enough to run and get my camera and get a picture of the duck but I do not know how to upload the picture to this new computer yet. But I will learn eventually. This is a custom-built computer that I had done to my specifications and so far it has been well worth the $2,000 dollars I paid for it.

One of my best friends, Randy, finally sold his farm and packed up his family and moved off to live in Costa Rica. I guess he got tired of all the bullshit going on here in the United States. I guess he will do alright there because he told me that he had realized a net profit of more than Ten Million dollars from the sale of all his static assets here in the USA. They tell me that it is fairly cheap to live in Costa Rica and that the government down there is friendly to Americans.

I just stopped following a blog where a post appeared claiming that former President Trump was the only president who never sent troops into combat in a war but still achieved a peaceful conclusion to some conflict.

The blogger has their right to their opinion of course whether I agree with him or her (whichever the case may be) or not … which, in this case, I might have to agree.

But the thrust of that blog post was (In my opinion) that the wartime leadership of President Biden and his generals is lacking or ineffective and the blog post gave me the impression that if Trump were still president he would get us out of the Ukraine mess without any military involvement of any kind at all.

I wanted to tell this blogger, “Well, if you want America to turn into a carbon copy of Russia, then go ahead and get the president that you have all the confidence in.”

But the blogger conveniently closed the comments on the post.

So I decided to unfollow the blogger.

I am thinking of closing the comments on my blog too since it appears that most of the world have already decided never to follow me either.

Alright then … I have decided to start taking a glass of water mixed with psyllium husk food supplement powder before each meal in an effort to control some of the excess body weight that plagues me. I will let you know how this experiment turns out.

I got carried away today and my lusts for forbidden foods got the best of me and I went to the local soft serve ice cream shop and purchased a small hot fudge sundae complete with whipped cream, crushed nuts and a cherry on top. Three-Hundred and Fifty useless calories. I wanted it, I have done without it long enough and I bought it and ate it, so I am responsible for any sugar spikes or weight gain … even though I will hate both if either happens.

It looks to me like the focus is shifting now away from Ukraine and onto the looming political election cycles here in The United States. Once again it appears that a lot of the right wing candidates are going to follow the Trump playbook and start complaining about rigged elections. They can never win an election honestly, apparently, so they have to resort to chicanery and all kinds of tricks and techniques to muddy the waters with hopes of sliding by actual public desire and planting themselves in elected offices by whatever means possible. Am I talking about crooked dealing here? Is the American Right Wing the only ones who resort to this kind of stuff or is it that they are just the best at doing it?

I read an article somewhere that said that service stations in Washington State are changing their price per gallon signs for gasoline from single digit to double digit prices … with expectations of being able to post gas prices of at least Ten Dollars per gallon. I also read a report somewhere else saying that the price of Ford Motor Company stock is somewhere in the range of a little more than Twelve dollars per share right now. Is that even possible? I thought Ford stock was a really big deal. As for me, I hate the idea of owning any share of stock in any corporation that is priced at less than a Hundred Dollars per share.

I got up with a slight headache this morning and as I was having my coffee, it came to my mind as follows: “There are a million thoughts that race through a human brain in the space of a single day. Where do all those thoughts go when we are finished thinking them? I sometimes get the idea that all those thoughts finally end up in the grave along with the rotting flesh of those who think them — so, in the final analysis, what good is it to think anything but positive thoughts?”

I will leave you to work that one out for yourselves.

I guess it would be appropriate, at this point, to mention a potentially new nightmare on the horizon for a world struggling with the devastation of covid 19 and its allied diseases.

The new horror is something being called “Monkey Pox.”

Just what we need right now … another new debilitating disease!

but nobody showed up …. so ….. have a nice rest of your day.