Reduce, reuse, recycle! This would be great. I hope it works.

It’s the smoke for us here in the city. At least that’s how it has been so far.

I really don't care. There are more important things requiring attention. I watch soccer. It will survive.

They should serve the wild boar to Putin.

The waxwings are back this morning! What a sweet group of birds. They don't fight each other in the bird bath; they just all happily plotz around in the water. Need to look them up. I assume they are migratory and just passing through our area right now.

It’s that or slow death.

I might take jon's recommendation as well, and thank you so much wtg and Andy.

We can't have people not be divided or the people might start thinking about things that matter.

Either that or Alexa speaks cat. Reason enough to never have a device that spends my money because it thinks I want something.

@andyd I'll take a good decade over a good one and a bad one. My medical power of attorney is complicated AF. I'm going to make sure it's know that I want DNR and no life support. I've had an interesting life. I have no plans to spend years suffering if there's no real point. As far loss, lifelong friends, since I was 3, since I was in high school, since I was in college, have become estranged over the decades. There's one I'd like to find but haven't had any luck in years. I have no family except a brother who is a narcissist from hell and has decided for the second time that we will be estranged since there's nothing I have that he can get from me. I have a cousin who doesn't understand me. I'll put that diplomatically. I have an aunt in her '80's whom I think the world of, and she's invited me to Seattle, but in will be a year or more before I'll be moved, settled, healed, and in a new rhythm managing my new responsibilities. The grim reaper cut down almost my entire family without giving me much of a break. Such is life. Well, we all know what our greatest poet said-- 'Better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all.' Strangely, I want to be on my own. It's a new adventure.

Yes it is. We get it here occasionally.

Well, it looks like 90° F every day. We had some rain yesterday, we're supposed to have some today, and again tomorrow. This is good news because the State's draught is exceptionally bad.

I saw that @big_al! I'm not a fan of blue green and it's too bad because unheated blue green sapphires are a bargain. I trust this is a rare color for diamonds, but what a vault I could put together of jewels, gemstones, and watches if I had $17 million! Thanks for thinking of me.

Yes.