further developments, current progress, the cat

It was reported that 12 House members met with Trump Tuesday night after the search of MAL to assure him that they still supported him and urged him to run again in 2024. Twelve. Trump has his 12 disciples. If that's not proof he's the anti-christ I don't know what would be.

In further developments, Merrick Garland held a press conference after two days of hysteria from the far right wackos accusing Biden of politicizing the DOJ and the FBI to take down his political rival, calling it a raid...show us the warrant!!!...explaining that the DOJ sent a subpoena to Trump last June to return the rest of the documents and Trump ignored it, hence obtaining the warrant to retrieve the other ten or so boxes of secret and classified documents. Garland explained he cannot release the warrant unless he gets a sign off from a judge. Trump, however not only has a copy of the warrant, he said, he has a list of the things the FBI took and Trump can release them anytime he wants. Since he hasn't, Garland has petitioned the court for permission to make the warrant public. So now with that wind taken out of their sails, the far right wackos are now claiming that the FBI planted those documents, that they refused to let anyone observe the search, when in truth, two of Trump's lawyers were present during the search and Trump and his family watched it via the close circuit cameras at MAL. Today Trump, after a leak revealed that the boxes contained classified nuclear documents, has called it a hoax. Next I'm sure he'll be calling it an unfair witch hunt. But now the question becomes what has he already done with the information and what did he plan to do with it in the future? It's very possible that he's guilty of selling or giving the information to either Putin or Saudi Arabia which is undeniable treason and espionage. He's already shown that he's willing to take down the country to get his way.

To be fair, it's pretty much the same 8 or 9 Republicans flooding twitter with their insane accusations and lies, throwing everything and anything on the wall in their panic to see if any of it will stick in an effort to gin up the outrage of Trump's base. One man found out the hard way yesterday that you don't try and fuck with the FBI.

I was all set to go over to the shop after breakfast to work on the little crab some more and start the more delicate cold work with my diamond bits and polishing points but just as I was ready to change into shop clothes, it started raining and then it started raining hard. While it only rained for about a half hour or so it was enough to derail my plans. According to the tracking number for the frit I ordered, it should be delivered today so I'll try and get the last mold filled and in the kiln after lunch.

I didn't get any work done yesterday as it was my SHARE day but here's my progress from Wednesday. I got all the major grinding done on all the little corals though I still have some to do on the crab. They're just sitting in their positions on the top. I'm wishing now I had shaped the rocks a little differently so that they morphed into the top a little more seamlessly.

Update on the little cat. She goes out every morning with the dog and stays our for a couple of hours and she comes back in. She sleeps in my chair during the day, sleeps with me and the dog off and on during the night. I guess we've decided to call her Cleo, or maybe just Cat. We've resisted the name Cleo because we had a cat when the kids were still kids named that and she was kind of weird, had her maybe about 4 or 5 years and one day when she was laying down, she rose up to sitting suddenly, coughed, and then keeled over dead.

Anyway, I'm more and more convinced she's pregnant and her nipples are becoming pronounced. Cats gestate for two months about. The first picture I took of her on the seat of the lawn mower was June 11^th. She let me touch her for the first time on July 8^th and that's when I started feeding her. The 17^th is when she came in the house. The 19^th is the day she came in and stayed in for about a week before she showed any interest in going outside again. During all that time I never heard any kind of cat in heat noise, not even during the weeks she spent outside before moving in. If she was already pregnant June 11^th she should pop any day now. If she was just pregnant when I started feeding her she's got another three weeks to go. Her appointment to get fixed is next Wednesday so we'll know for sure then.