Every now and then one needs to see little bits like this.

Kinda perks ya up!

THANKS, catbyte!

No kidding!

"Ahhhh, it's only 90." Good Grief!!!

We got up to 119 at the highest, earlier this week. My parents used to have a small vacation home in Palm Desert. I don't ever remember the temperature rising to 119 degrees, and it was freakin' HOT out there!

Just a few miles down the Willamette from downtown.

Oooooooooh Nola Donuts!

WORTH IT!!!

Good to know! Will avoid!

But then again, I shouldn't be eating donuts anyway.

Him, and Kurt Bardella.

I couldn't help writing down what he said today on MSNBC - a big fat honkin' alert to our wussy "must-be-nice" Democrats:

“We gave you power and the Senate and the House and the White House - Now that you have them, you’re hesitant to use them.
Even if you don’t want to abolish the filibuster, there are many mechanisms at your disposal that you can use, if you want to try to implement change. If the situation were reversed and it were the Repubs that were in that position...
1) They wouldn’t hesitate to blow up the filibuster to get their agenda through.
2) They would use the power of the purse. ‘Alright, State A or State B. If you want do this, if you want to impose draconian anti-democratic laws, then we’re gonna withhold funding. We’re gonna pass this major infrastructure bill. You’re not gonna get a dollar of it if you’re gonna act this way.’
3) We would put pressure on you. We would use every means at our disposal, whether it’s private enterprises, companies, donors, legislation process, committee hearings, whatever it took. Every weapon in our arsenal to try to implement the change that we want.
And I just don’t feel like Democrats are calibrated to act that way and in this case, this isn’t a brazen political grab. This is a meaningful and necessary defense of our democracy. And if we aren’t willing to fight fire with fire, to protect our democracy, to protect our right to vote, then I don’t know what the hell else we’re gonna fight for. This is the most important fight that we’re gonna have. And if we don’t win this one, we sure as hell aren’t going to win the other ones."
- Kurt Bardella , 7/2/21, former Republican consultant on MSNBC

I looked him up. Former Repub. Now a Democrat as of 2018, and regular "talking head" on MSNBC.
I became a Democrat a year ago and found my own voice. It changed everything.
I wrote my truth, held my breath and waited. I now care about lots more things than I used to, and I've finally embraced my Asian-American identity.
Kurt Bardella
Opinion columnist

Updated 9:50pm ET Dec. 16, 2018
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2018/12/16/first-year-democrat-found-my-voice-embraced-my-identity-column/2301857002/

Fingers crossed that there aren't fires.

We all need a nice, safe, happy, and pleasantly uneventful 4th.

Awwwwwww, mcar.

Yes. Write it and share it here. We all want to support you at this very trying time. I think the Jewish community calls it “sitting shiva.” Which, as this old Catholic understands it, is a genuinely kind, loving, and compassionate thing to do. You deserve nothing less.

Oh good! I want to see and hear MUCH more of her!

Get the truth out there, girlfriend! You’re doing the work of the saints.

I'll help!