These links were noted on Friday. The status update's for today, Monday. Restoring the private Internet connection, up in the woods, may be unfeasible (I always thought having it there would be unfeasible, anyway).
Status update: PK--in McDonald's, again. Woke up during the night reacting to "New Roundup." Reactions include swelling, probably the entire length of the digestive tract, and soreness at both ends, and more alarmingly when I woke up it felt as if I wasn't breathing naturally. A few moments of meditative breathing fixed that...this time. We need a ban on "New Roundup" and on all chemical sprays. The few "pesticides" farmers can be said to need can be applied as oil or powder. Road verges can be steamed clean with plain old H2O.
Serena--up and down. Whatever's going on inside her seems to include extreme chemical sensitivity. She wants to go outside; she comes in wheezing.
Drudge--feeling full of himself because he's caught some more little rodents. He throws them against the door until Serena or I come out to admire his prowess. Rodents are, of course, redeemable for kibble.
Jimmy Skunk--also at risk, and we need his help. I've seen European Hornets flying around. Their sting is nasty enough to make people want to use insect sprays...the trouble is, no insect spray really touches the colony, although the sprayer is likely to be stung. What those things need is a visit from a friendly skunk.
Bad Neighbor--has been out and about at 1 a.m. Anyone who cares about him needs to be watching him all the time. Don't believe that he's asleep just because everyone else is or wants to be, and, if he says it's raining outside, two to one it's not--nobody should take his word for anything.
I may have given someone misleading information about the cat poisoner. I said that he comes up and sprays poison with the intention of harming people who belong in the neighborhood--primarily me--and, having exposed himself to more of the said poisons than anyone else, then goes home and wails about his "long COVID" and arthritis after I'm back on my feet. Person said, "But he's a hard worker!" He was that, once, and may still be one in between these efforts to do evil...more to himself than to other people, these days. But has person observed Old Wrymouth doing any work lately? He was considered intelligent in 1970. He was still a real marksman in 2015, too, and he's a real argument for licensing firearms owners and requiring regular re-testing, now.
Fashion
I want this look. Not saying it's "to dye for," but I'd love if my vestigial white streak grew out like this. Or a little longer, so it could be drawn back along the part.
North Carolina
Does this web site still have readers in Washington, having admitted to un-neighborly support for the idea of downsizing government? If so, the time has come to prove yourselves. That tradition of using every available long weekend (after Easter weekend, which this web site understands Christians may want to observe in their home towns) to go to a small town and throw money around? This web site wants photos of Democrats, with Maryland license plates and D bumper stickers and all, throwing money around in Asheville. The ghosts of President Kennedy and my Aunt Dotty have been disturbed by this tweet. Defend their honor if you can.
Poem
I think Susan Jarvis Bryant is one of our generation's best. The poem about Dismas (the extrabiblical, traditional name for the thief who repented on the cross)--read it and choose your own adjective.
Psychology
Could you spend a year and a half underground? I suppose I could survive an "experiment" like this, but for me the deal breaker would be the lack of air and sun. I could do 500 days without human contact, especially with an Internet connection, but I'd want to be out in nature, in contact with non-human life.
Scandal
Illegal border jumpers should be deported, but these Afghan Christians were not illegal border jumpers. They were rushed through that "parole" because they were in danger--because they'd helped us. There are still plenty of foreign criminals to be tracked down and deported. Apparently when people are trying to sound important, bragging about the number of foreigners they've sent out of this country, the ones who are here because they need to be here and because people like having them here are just the low-hanging fruit! Yes, Afghanistan is going through hard times and no doubt a lot of people would say they were Christians just to get out...but this is a group of individuals for whom our service people have vouched.
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