I have been painting molding and trim in the solarium. Over time, it gets nicked up and scratched, so it’s a nice, limited project. Sparky doesn’t like it because I can’t stop to play. When I am sitting on the floor to get the low stuff, Sparky isn’t welcome to help. I have to send him away.
Now that the work is done, Sparky is happy to go outside and goof around. It’s so nice out, I’m tempted to get a beer and go back outside.
Student dies from self-inflicted gunshot in Valley Forge High School cafeteria
A friend teaches at Valley Forge. He called me a couple of hours later to tell me what happened and about the student. That’s not my story to tell, and the inside scoop is probably all over social media.
CNN: Trump accelerates research on psychedelic treatments
President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging expanded research into psychedelic drugs, part of a broader push to explore emerging mental health treatments.
This may be the Trumpiest news ever.
Sparky and I look like a couple of convalescent old bastards, but we’re good. There isn’t a cloud in the sky, so we wanted to soak up some sun before it rains again. It’s only 40o outside, so we are bundled up.
Don’t say we’re snuggling. Sparky is pretty homophobic.
Activists Try to Remove 2,000 Beagles from Wisconsin Research Facility
On Saturday, April 18, at 8:52 am, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office responded to approximately 1000 activists converging on Ridglan Farms in the town of Blue Mounds.
This looks like a war zone. I adore beagles, but these chaotic people are violent thugs. If they had succeeded, they weren’t going to flee the scene with a beagle under each arm. The beagles would have been released into the wild to be eaten by coyotes or face some other grim death.
Sparky gets anxious when storms roll in, and this week, that seems to be twice per day. He’s also not nuts about getting a wet belly. Sparky was happy to get out when the weather cleared for a while.
When I went to Aldi today, I picked up a rack of baby back ribs, the fully cooked kind that is slathered in barbecue sauce. Sparky was so supportive. He knows I love ribs, so he was all smiles and encouragement as I laid them out on the cookie sheet to go under the broiler.
I waited until Sparky’s dinner time, so while I’m tucking in to my ribs, he’s eating his 4 ounces of kibble and half of a hard-boiled egg. Sparky will like that we are dining together.
This is what happens when you get out of your lane on Youtube. The couple of Youtube videos I mentioned in earlier posts, has skewed my algorithm.
I watched one video of a talented girl playing Orange Blossom Special, and now Youtube thinks I want to see a girl with a club foot or palsy, busking with her banjo cousin. I’m not clicking on that, but somehow, it’s been viewed 16 million times.
The other one is worse. Why is a naked guy talking to a dog in the middle of what looks like Amsterdam? What is he saying? Something like, “Love knows no bounds. Acting on that love is only natural. Look, it’s only weird if you make it weird.” The dog looks receptive.