weird thing, tomatoes, and the continuing retaliatory clown show in the House

Here's a weird thing that happened. Tuesday night 12:30 AM I was a sleep, not dreaming, when I heard my sister softly call my name in my ear with a slightly raised tone at the end (like an inquiry as in are you there or can you hear me). What, I replied. c...company, she said. Woke me straight the fuck up. What the hell was that! I sent her a text, are you OK? No reply so I got up and went to the front of the house and watched her house for a few minutes. All was dark and quiet. I went back to bed.

I went to all three yoga classes this week very carefully staying off my knee and resisting bending it much past about 90˚. It is still a little swollen and the leg still discolored but it is improving daily. Still no results from the x-rays. Edit:  "No fracture or dislocation is seen. No radiographically apparent degenerative change is seen. There is soft tissue swelling anterior and inferior to the patella, possibly indicating bursitis. IMPRESSION: No acute abnormality". Bursitis? I whacked the hell out of it.

I'm about ready to pull up the tomato plants though there are still some small green ones which I'm not sure I feel like waiting on them. All the ones on the Big Boy plant are getting blossom end rot which is supposed to be caused by over watering which I definitely am not doing and none of the other plants are exhibiting that. I have two bags of tomatoes in the fridge that I am going to process today, maybe more tomato sauce or peel them, chop them, stew them, and put them up in the freezer. Maybe a little of both.

The republicans in the House are showing themselves to be the petty vindictive wackos they are. Since their bogus investigations are flopping wildly they decided to censure Adam Schiff for his role in the first impeachment of Trump basically saying that it was a political weaponization against a man who had done nothing wrong. Schiff's remarks were golden, “you honor me with your enmity...that I have been effective in the defense of our democracy” and when democrats applauded his remarks republicans screeched about a lack of decorum. I read elsewhere, and I don't know how true it is, that this censure was illegal because the actions did not happen in this current Congress but when has illegal ever stopped republicans. Meanwhile Marjorie Taylor Greene calls Lauren Boebert “a little bitch” to her face on the floor of the House over their ridiculous competing articles of impeachment of President Biden based on their own lies. More petty retaliatory bullshit and that's all they've got. In the two years the Democrats held the House they passed major legislation after major legislation that is benefitting the American people and the country. In the months the Republicans have held the House they have conducted bogus retaliatory investigation after bogus retaliatory investigation that, in the end, only showed them to be exactly what they were. Seemingly, House Republicans only purpose is to support Trump and deep six any and all evidence against him and to punish his detractors.

Speaking of 'deep six', I admit I have no sympathy for rich billionaires who engage in a risky adventure and end up dying. They climbed into a tin can that was controlled by a game console that had not undergone any kind of rigorous standards for deep dive vessels because who needs intrusive regulations that might slow down their ability to rake in millions from rich tourists, a machine that had already had safety concerns and into which they were bolted with no way to exit from the inside. One man that was supposed to be on it this trip was smart enough to change his mind after he did some research. I am glad though that their deaths were instantaneous and within the first couple of hours. I can't think of anything worse than basically being buried alive, whether in a small box or a small can.

The whole world was focused on the fate of five billionaires for days while hundreds of refugees drowning in the Mediterranean were barely a blip on the news cycle because, hey, they were poor and desperate. Nobody wants to hear about that.

Just so I end on a more pleasant note, on my desk is a small cardboard tray that came from a nursery or the feed store that held a six pack or two of bedding plants and I use it to keep scraps of paper for notes or info I want to keep, appointment cards from the various medical professionals, other odds and ends and I looked up to see Cat trying to sit in this little cardboard container.

So I went and found her a proper box and set it on the big work table next to me. She investigated it immediately and then proceeded to settle in. It's her favorite place. She spends the major part of her day sleeping in that box.