it'd be funny if it wasn't so pathetic and an anniversary

Toad lilies.

You might remember last fall about this time I dug up my last few struggling toad lily roots, put them in a pot and brought them inside for the winter and was so happy when they put out new growth this past spring. I used to have a fair sized group of them until we started have temps in the 20s or teens every winter even if only for a few days. They would freeze down to the ground and come back but fewer and fewer until last fall. Well, they grew all summer and are now blooming. I’ll bring them in again for the winter and hopefully they’ll go in a bigger pot next spring.

One of the funniest things I read earlier this week after the Epstein emails were released was Karoline Leavitt, the White House spokesperson, claiming that the Donald Trump mention therein was not the president but a different Donald Trump. It’s a very common name she said. Even Holy Mike has repeated that nonsense.* Never mind all those photos of Trump and Epstein buddying it up or the women who named him as their rapist when they were 14. Apparently that was just some other guy who looks exactly like the guy who tarted up the Oval Office. 

*Turns out that wasn’t true but from a satire site.

Now of course, Trump thinks that by directing the DoJ to investigate all the democrats in regard to Epstein that that will take the pressure off him, or else he thinks democrats will all of a sudden not want the Epstein files released. Wrongo dude. Democrats raped little girls? We want them punished too. And speaking of the Oval Office, one of the first things Trump did when he returned to office was remove the Resolute Desk because he said it needed to be refurbished. Has it been returned? No, it’s currently on display at Mar A Lago. 

As if that’s not enough, now the Trump administration is going to require every SNAP recipient to reapply, you know to root out all that fraud (which should make all the self appointed food police out there happy because poor people are spending a few dollars of SNAP money on chips and sodas) even though SNAP recipients already have to reapply every 6 months. In other news, according to JD et al undocumented residents, you know the ones who do the lowest paying jobs that Americans won’t do, are responsible for the housing shortage because they are buying up all the homes. I don’t think I need to go into why this is one of the more ridiculous charges MAGAts have made against these people.

Moving on…

Thursday, November 13th was two years since my sister died. Sometimes it feels like it’s been much longer than that and sometimes it’s like 2 years already? Bottom line is that while I miss her and I think about her a lot, I’m not grieving anymore. I can think about her without feeling sadness.

So my little dog has been chewing on her back end to the point of making the skin raw. She’ll get one or two fleas which I comb off her every day with a nit comb but I don’t think that’s it. She’s had worse fleas without this gnawing on herself. I was giving her a brewer’s yeast/apple cider vinegar chewy that is touted to make her less pleasing to fleas every day for two months so I thought maybe that was it and stopped that about 5 days ago, gave her a bath, but so far it hasn’t stopped the chewing. Yesterday I put her little fleece jacket thing on her to prevent her from being able to get to her skin but it’s far too hot for that right now so today I used it as a pattern and made one out of that lightweight sheet I used to patch my sheets a while back. Unless she’s sitting in my lap or next to me on the couch or outside I’m making her wear it hoping to get her skin to heal up and break the habit.

I’m finally starting to see some butterflies migrating through. Today while I was out picking up pecans I saw a sulfur, two queens, a fritillary, and a monarch on the orange cosmos. The queens are a bit smaller than monarchs but these two were very small, smaller than normal. I wonder what that means.

Earlier while I was cleaning up after breakfast Sarah came over with Paisleigh and Harrison while their dad worked on a car across the street and then they were going to run errands. Harrison isn’t walking yet but almost. He’s able to free stand for a few moments before he loses his balance. Did I take any pictures? No, I did not.