all over the place

When they appoint Kavanaugh, whose own profession does not support him, to the Supreme Court we will have lost any claim to moral authority that we might still have had. The American Empire is officially in decline. Lies under oath, belligerence, absolute partisanship, threats of retaliation, credible charges of sexual assault are now acceptable for a Supreme Court justice. Trump/Nero fiddles and Congress dances to the tune.

The confederate rose bushes are blooming but they got so tall over the summer that all the blooms are way at the top.

I wrote Rocky his final check yesterday and sent him on his way until sometime after the first of the year when we will get him to start on the new deck in the front. It's going to be nice just to have the regular monthly bills for a change. We might even go buy a new pump for the small pond which has sat stagnant for a year since the most recent pump died after Harvey. It's full of minnows so it's not breeding mosquitoes.

And the last picture of the house in its new clothes, the backside of the garage and bedroom with the etched glass windows.

We went to another estate sale yesterday handled by a different person. The guy running it has had several antique/decorating businesses in the past. The sale is billed as a moving sale but what it looked like was a clearing-out-my-warehouse-of-all-the-stuff-and-trying-to-get-rid-of-it sale. Regardless, I picked up a very cool heron sculpture for $12 

and a small table/plant stand for $6. They also had a loveseat which I had just this week been thinking I needed one of for my studio room so people (my sister) would have a place to sit when they came over. It seemed a good price at $75 but I didn't want to pay that much. Today was 25% off so I went back to see if it had sold. I thought as I left the house that if it was meant for me it would still be there. And it was.

Still have daylilies. In October. Unheard of.

And the little red lilies that usually start coming up in late December and start blooming late February are sprouting. In October.

So I reported last that my back was improving daily, and it was until last Sunday when I woke up and it was as bad or worse as it had been. WTF! I had been a good girl concerning activity. Monday, just as bad and so I finally went to the chiropractor Monday afternoon. Monday night, felt great, could sit, stand, lay with no pain, just some residual soreness. Tuesday morning it was as if I hadn't even been. Wednesday morning, pain free and I walked on eggshells all day afraid to move for fear of it jarring it back. But Thursday and today, pain free and seems to be holding.

So, of course, coming back from picking up the loveseat it started to rain and we were trying to get it out of the truck as fast as we could and I grabbed hold of the corner of the truck, set my right foot on the (now slick) corner of the bumper, went to swing my left leg down and my shoe slipped off the bumper and down I went. On concrete. I landed on my back but I had automatically (because there was no conscious thought about it and it happened so fast) tucked and rolled when I felt myself go and I popped right up. It didn't hurt and I'm not feeling any recurrence so far. We'll see how it feels tomorrow.