Friday night was one of my nights to fix dinner which I do twice a week, Tuesdays and Fridays. I usually tend towards seafood which I like to have at least once a week or vegetarian. Last night I fixed crunchy baked shrimp and a tomato, olive, spinach pasta. It was really good and I should have taken a picture but I did not.
More rain on Saturday, at least two inches on top of the 5” we got Wednesday night and Thursday. More lightning and thunder. The dog and the cat were driving me crazy. Minnie wanted in my lap as I tried to read an article on my desktop but she was a perpetual motion machine and Cat was constantly pushing at my hand, biting at me, walking in between me and the screen, getting in my face. I finally just gave up and went and sat on the couch. The rain stopped but the thunder continued for a while.
My peach tree is covered in peaches almost ready to pick.
I picked six on Friday and eight yesterday and they are so good. Last year I got two and only two the year before. I guess my tree has decided to be a real tree.
Today I managed to get all the newly fallen limbs cut up, some thrown in the truck and two piles waiting to be thrown in the truck to dump them on the burn pile. Not only is it hot out there, now it’s steamy.
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The violent rhetoric of Trump and the Republican congressional politicians have finally born its poison fruit. Hardly a day has gone by without Trump or a Republican congress member conducting press conferences or on SM calling Democrats dangerous and unAmerican, calling for them to be arrested or shot or tarred and feathered. Early Saturday morning a man portrayed as a cop, in uniform with all the right gear and what looked like a cop car assassinated Minnesota state Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband and attempted to assassinate Minnesota state Senator John Hoffman and his wife. After the report of the shooting at the Hoffman’s police did a wellness check on the Hortmans who lived nearby and confronted the shooter coming out of the house. They exchanged gunfire and the shooter retreated back into the house and escaped on foot out the back. No Kings flyers were found in the suspect's car and officials investigating the shootings recovered a kill list of about 70 names of democrat politicians and abortion advocates, including Saturday’s victims. This was a well thought out and planned attack by a man who ran a security company and has ties to evangelical ministries. Trump eventually made a short statement …“Such horrific violence will not be tolerated in the United States of America.”…this from the man who pardoned all the J6 criminals who violently attacked the Capitol police as they surged into the building to hunt down Democrat politicians. Reportedly not just Democrat politicians are alarmed by this assassination but also Republicans and yet I doubt that a single Republican will admit their rhetoric was a contributing factor.
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Millions of Americans took to the street nationwide on Saturday for No Kings Day to peacefully protest Trump and his overreach, his power grabs, to protest the unreasonable and intentionally cruel roundup of peaceful hard working tax paying undocumented residents, to protest his ridiculous $50M military parade while cutting millions of dollars from veterans’ care and food assistance. Fortunately my fears that he would use this as an excuse to order violence against the protesters was unfounded but not, I think, because he had a change of heart about what he wanted to happen but because the protests were massive even in red states and he was afraid to. His approval ratings are already in the toilet.
Just before midnight on Saturday Trump issued a statement that he has ordered ICE to stop raids on farms, hotels, and restaurants presumably from pressure by the farming, hotel, and restaurant industries which are losing their workers and unable to replace them because white American citizens won’t do those jobs but I can’t help but think that the rising resistance from community members against these ICE raids and the millions who turned out for the No Kings protests had an influence. It remains to be seen though if the raids actually stop.
I haven’t been able to find a trustworthy estimate of the attendance at the parade but one report said it was well below the expected 200,000 and videos taken during the parade show a sparse crowd. There was another report that said a surge of people leaving early created logjams at the only two exits from the Mall before Trump made his remarks. The most common estimate on SM is less than 10,000 but nothing official to back that up. Videos of Trump during the parade of old equipment and soldiers walking instead of marching proudly show a bored and unhappy man. He finally got his parade but it was not the spectacle he wanted.
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ReplyDeleteDefeated by pets? Lol. I just pick them up deposit them outside the office. Then comes the meowing and that pathetically cute little paw under the door.
Yes. You should have taken a Pic of your dish. What spices do you use?
The raw shrimp was tossed with half the melted butter, paprika, garlic powder, salt, pepper with panko crumbs coated with the rest and spread on top. The penne pasta used crushed red pepper, garlic, tomatoes (halved grape or cut in large chunks), veg broth, salt, pepper, olives (kalamate or green), baby spinach, basil, parmesan.
DeleteCodex: Yum. Thanks wrote it down. Also left reply on previous post.
DeleteI could send you the recipes if you want to provide me with an email address. You can contact me at eellenabbott@gmail.com
DeleteThere's a meme on twitter, shows a Chinese mass march, which is impressive, and then our march. The text says "when you ordered your parade from TEMU." The thinking is that the men marching was not precise because they were pissed to have to be there.
ReplyDeleteFunny. I saw several comparisons. Perhaps though I did read once that they were ordered to march 'at ease' but they should have been in dress parade instead of casual camo and marching. It just looked sloppy. Who was that supposed to impress?
DeleteCodex: left a comment earlier on a previous post. Were being pushed into ww3 by repeating past mistakes.
ReplyDeleteWhat were going to need quickly is someone to lead us through this with diplomacy. He's not up to it. The parade? One doesn't show the enemy new toys and it was a recruitment effort. Military is not happy. The protests were important.
We're being pushed into war because Trump is and looks weak and he can't tolerate that. He thinks being militarily aggressive will make him look tough. There is no one in his state department that has the experience needed in diplomacy. I get that you don't show the newest and best to the enemy and I read that the old equipment and uniforms were supposed to show the development of the military through time. Still it was poorly done and if that parade was a recruitment effort it was a piss poor one and not inspiring.
DeleteCodex: Presenting it as history (which is why he was muttering and displeased) was very clever. The marines were stationed to "protect" against their own (dept of Vet affairs) and pissed about that.
DeleteAnyone over 60 got to experience what peace and allyship can mean to prosperity and reputation. The situation in the middle east and Russia has been planned since 2010. Diplomacy and negotiations prevented what were seeing now with Iran and Ukraine. What is different is that UAE, Qatar etc. realized that signing treaties keeping peace made them rich through export. They don't want this, but this admin lives in the 80s.
Peaches! I need peaches! Have they started showing up at that place where you've gotten them in the past? Where exactly is that stand? If my local orchard isn't having a good year, I'd drive a distance for that summer sweetness. As for your kitty -- my Dixie Rose never would sit in my lap even when I wanted her to. Her preference was laying at my feet -- or, in the winter, laying on top of the computer's surge protector, which stays warm.
ReplyDeletePeach Creek Market has had peaches for weeks now. It's on 59/69 N between Wharton and Kendleton, closer to Wharton. Cat likes to sit on the mac mini to keep her butt warm in the winter.
DeleteI went to the No Kings rally in my very Republican town. About a thousand. Lots of elderly, a lot of vets. Lots of vehicles honking in support. Trump looked like a sulky canvas bag, if bags could sulk
ReplyDeleteIt was not the extravagant awe inspiring event he envisioned for sure and the 13+ million who turned out for No Kings really chapped his ass.
DeleteI saw the NoKing events on the news here, and they seemed peaceful and well organized, festive almost, like a street party in some instances. It remains to be seen whether they will have had an impact.
ReplyDeleteThey were peaceful and festive though there were some instances of violence perpetrated by the police. They just can't help themselves, rubber bullets, tear gas, batons for no reason except that people were out there protesting.
DeleteWe do grow peaches here in North Florida and why I haven't planted any is a mystery to me. Probably because of the limited sun in this yard. One year on our trip back from North Carolina, we found a huge peach stand business that sold peaches and peach milk shakes and all things peach and we bought a box of those delicious things and i made peach preserves and we have vowed to find that place again. Not yet.
ReplyDeleteEllen, have you seen any polls on the question of whether people who voted for Trump are changing their minds and hearts?
You could probably plant a peach tree where the bradford pears were.
DeleteI get several newsletter and also Heather Cox Richardson's which if you don't get you should. Some are saying that the tide is turning against Trump but that is just making him double down I think.
Your peaches are so good looking. I imagine they are of the furry kind? Ours are not quite as ripe but we'll also have a bumper harvest provided we don't get a massive storm now.
ReplyDeleteIt has been quite mindboggling to watch the latest instalments of the US reality show.
Yes, the furry kind. Before mine ripened and before the market got Hill country peaches they had some from North Carolina? (somewhere around there) that were smooth. I had never seen those before and thought they looked like nectarines but they did taste like peaches.
DeleteI hate reality shows!
Glad you are getting lots of peaches on your peach tree.
ReplyDeleteIt was a great protest here and I was so glad to be marching.
I was so happy to see such a large turnout and really glad Trump didn't use it as an excuse for bashing heads but probably only because he was busy with his parade.
DeleteI'm sure heads are going to roll for leaving the King displeased about his parade. It would be funny if it weren't so scary.
ReplyDeleteYay peaches!
Oh yes, he's already retaliating.
DeleteThe marches & rallies were so uplifting, but I'm still feeling pretty alarmed by all the things.
ReplyDeleteI think things are going to get worse. Too much humiliation in such a short span of time. He's stepping up his targeting of democrats.
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