a house is coming, some gardening, and more of the Trump shitshow

but no pictures.

Yesterday I called John the septic/pad guy to come out and look at the pad since that 6 1/2” of rain we got created 3 deep runnels leading from the center to the edge and the whole thing sort of puddled out a bit but was for the most part still solid. Anyway, John wanted to give it another day to dry out and he would return today to fill in those spots (done). Then I emailed Jerry the house guy with the update and asked if he had a delivery day yet. He emailed back...Wednesday! Like tomorrow peeps. All of a sudden, it's getting' real. So of course I started second guessing myself; did we pick the best spot, maybe we should have placed the house perpendicular to the front fence facing across the property (like several people thought because of the fence clearing project), maybe we should have moved it back another 10' or so from where it will sit. Now with the house on it's way it's looking awfully close to the front fence though it's almost 30' away. At any rate, it's too late now, the house is going where the pad is. And it will be fine, I know it will be fine. As with the 40' container the bitch put on her property 4' from mine, it will just be getting used to the new view, not that the view now is all that great, just basically empty land back to the overgrown back fence, not that we can see much of it anyway out our windows what with the yew tree on the corner of the house and the red tip photinias across the front yard.

And speaking of the shop, Rocky is getting very close to being done with the room and half bath buildout over there.

Now that the rain is done and the Sahara dust has dissipated (somewhat anyway, mostly overcast with pale blue sky showing), it is hot and humid out there. So hot and humid that I can be standing still in the shade and in no time I am dripping sweat. We've had mosquitos but they were the little black ones that you never feel a thing when they bite, only knowing when you happened to see one sucking your life blood. Out there today are the big aggressive black ones and you know when they bite. Today I was over at the shop yard cutting down all the hackberry trees that had sprung up around, under, and in between the trucks.

Sunday was mild enough that I worked out in my yard most of the day getting all the little things I have bought over the last couple of weeks, but not planted, in the ground like the two surviving periwinkles that didn't get planted before (there were four but two of them couldn't hold out long enough), the four moss rose (two of which may not survive), the two rudbeckias that were horribly potbound (that's a big problem with stuff at Caldwell's Nursery), moved a purple coneflower, potted up some red salvia for my neighbor Judy, did some weeding, realized my fullest and most prolific blooming plumeria is so potbound I don't think there's any dirt left at all. My choices there are pull it out of the pot and put it in the ground or put it in a bigger pot. Whatever I decide, I'm going to need help as it is too big and too heavy for me to do on my own. In the meantime I have to water it about twice a day.

The news just keeps getting worse and worse. With the pandemic now running rampant in Republican states, now the Republicans, at least some, are getting concerned. They didn't give a shit as long as it was Democratic run states that were suffering but now that it's 'their' people, well, maybe they did rush to reopen too soon and McConnell is all of a sudden concerned about people not wearing masks? It shouldn't be a political issue, he says, no one should be ridiculed for wearing a mask, he says, after they all refused to wear masks making it a political issue and accused proponents of fear mongering and being sheep. I guess with Canada and Mexico having closed their borders to the US and now the EU as well, it's starting to dawn on them that the pandemic is a real problem.

And as if this isn't bad enough we now know that Trump was told that Russia has put a bounty on American soldiers' heads, has known for months, maybe even a year, and he did nothing. No, I take that back, he called Putin, had a lovely conversation, and then tried to get the G7 to invite Russia back in. When asked what he talks about to Putin, he told the reporter that it's none of our business. None of our business? You work for us, you asshole, you represent us, the people of the United States and it certainly is our business. And the GOP's response? Crickets. And more damaging news is in his calls with other nations' leaders, he practically grovels to Putin and Erdogan but is rude and insulting to our allies, telling Angela Merkel, who was trained as a physicist and has a PhD in chemistry and did her thesis on quantum chemistry, that she's 'stupid'. His demeanor has so alarmed so many people in the White House that they consider him a threat to our national security. Let that sink in. Current and past individuals in Trump's administration think the president of the US is a threat to our national security. And now that the rest of the world knows, Trump has still done nothing except brief only Republicans so they can all get on the same page and tell the same story.

It's looking like some of the rats are starting to desert the ship though it's far too late for that. They'll be going down with it. We will not forget or turn a blind eye to the fact that they have enabled Trump for 3 1/2 years instead of honoring their oath to protect and defend the Constitution because they were forced, forced they say, to support Trump or face retirement, cause, you know, Trump might tweet about them!