FAKE SUMMER #1 Only in Michigan (well maybe Wisconsin). I have seen so many stages of undress this week as we cheat a little and enjoy "fake summer" for a few days. Shorts, crop tops, sandals galore! The flowers are buying into it though in a day or so they may regret their headlong rush into sunlight sporting their colors. Team Daffodil, Thumping Tulips and the Hyacinth Huskies. When it's 50 and I see shorts I think that's pushing it; but 60 and sleeveless top lady riding on the back of a motorcycle is wrong on so many levels; road rash being only one.
Of course good weather means cleaning up the gardens and picking up sticks for hours. Then the clandestine burning when everybody's at work or school in the firepit grill. The way the wind blows and how the house is situated, normally "the stick stops here". My role is to be frantically on the lookout for complaints whenever the errant wet leaf creates a telltale smoke trail. It's usually white so apparently my cover story is I'm prepping for the next pope election considering Francis has been having some issues lately.
WHAT NOW? The conservatives have been busy with new restrictions. Funny as they are always touting they are the party of freedom and less government control. Guess attacks on religion, sex, books, teachers, people different from them, social security, medicare, segregation (Arkansas), throwing black congressmen out for voicing opinions (albeit with a bullhorn) and drugs do not count as restricting freedom and government control.
As a woman who has suffered a miscarriage I can tell you medical treatment before the medication was a physical ordeal (on top of the mental stress). Of course in some States medical intervention may not even be an option. If they can restrict one drug, by judge shopping, what is to stop them from restricting others? Not viagra, of course. That's needed so the old congressmen can still chase down their young interns. Wonder how men would react if vasesctomy was outlawed. Apparently the procedure is happening in proverbial droves in the southern states as the men try to protect the women and themselves. Right on brothers.
QUIET WEEK Fishing season and we're ready. Got our licenses (though mine languishes most years). Got a new trolling motor that the S-I-L installed. Small problem getting the boat out of the garage however. My 2007 Pontiac convertible refused to engage. New battery so the problem is probably internal and costly. Edging the boat out without scratching my stubborn little SHESTOY took three people and guts. Thinking of calling my used car guy and asking what he'll give me for her but he has to come and get it lol. It's all about negotiation. Maybe we can become those golf cart people who slip down the street at lightening speed of 15 mph. Of course they usually don't have the payload to haul a boat so that's out.
Couple of "bon mots" as Dad used to call them from the OH. Due to my progressivly worsening arthritis and my whining about it, I have had a series of 4 (count 'em) 4 MRI's since August. The OH says I schedule them like carnival rides but it could be the valium. 2nd witless i cism. Ever since I exploded my eardrum last Fall the tinnitus has become as noisy as a marching band in a nursery. I keep swearing that machines are running. The OH called it "No that's just the sound of your brain working". Well good to know. The tests are to try to determine why the injection into my tattoo or my spine, I'm not sure which, did not work, but instead opened up new pathways of discomfort. But it only hurts when I move and of course, I will never play the violin. More's the pity. As I will be on my feet pretty much the next three days at a conference staffing a booth and moderating lectures, I am stocking up on mucho meds.
MSU has the best MRI machines size - wise and I think I know most of the techs by name by now and have the routine down. However one size fits all in the gown department so I always have to come out in my underwear to be tied in or out of said gown. Sometimes its a man, sometimes its a woman but its all part of the fun. I mean once you've seen the internal workings of my body the rest is just gravy or meat I guess would be more descriptive. Spartan Strong and Peace out.....💚 💙💛
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Lovely flowers SIDE
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