Sunny today and warmer. Should go up into the 40s. Still recovering from yesterday's shopping/errands. We usually shop at the little dairy every other week and the large supermarket every third week. And we go to our local meat market whenever our go to items are low. Yesterday the three coincided. We were out of or low on several things we keep on hand. By the time I got back (Mom decided to stay home and sleep) and got almost everything put away I simply played couch potato for the rest of the day. At the dairy I was surprised by how depleted their stocks were. They were out of the quart jars of cream I usually but they had the pint jars so I compensated by getting my usual quantity of the pints. They also were almost out of eggs though I was able to get my usual two dozen. The clerk said that business has increased lately and she has been urging her boss to increase stocks.
The scanty supply of eggs didn't surprise me in light of the number of accounts I have seen of the flocks of birds that have been euthanized because of bird flu. A blogger I read yesterday also linked to a story about a fire at a large egg production farm that killed some 10K birds and another which reported that the state of Georgia has suspended all activities involving chickens in response to the bird flu. No swaps, sales, meets, shows involving chickens and chicken products in the #5 egg producing state in the country.
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Sunny today and a bit warmer. Weather that makes thinking about what I might like to do in the gardens this year. It isn't yet time to really get busy with the clean up and rearranging. We will probably have more really cold weather and snow. I yielded to temptation when I was shopping on Tuesday and picked ups three cute slow watering figurines. They had a plastic bulb with hollow terracotta spikes at the bottom. I have seen variations on the olla ---a hurried terracotta vessel that releases water at the root level. Most have a problem for my gardens--they occupy too much area in my containers. However, the new items are smaller and designed for pots. If they work well I will order some I found on the Gardener's web site which are designed to fit wine bottles. I have several of those.
Major story this morning is the airliner/helicopter crash in D.C. They will be discussing what little they know and speculating on what nobody knows for the whole day. The other story involves the testimony of three of Trump's nominees: Gabbard, RFK, Jr., and Patel. I won't follow it because the evening news will do that very well.
File this BOONDOGGLE story under HOW STUPID (OR VENAL) CAN THEY BE. Or perhaps YOUR TAX DOLLARS LOOTED--AGAIN.
Stray thought: Trump has ordered the Defense Department to prepare the facilities at Guantanamo for up to 30k migrants. Reminds me too much of how Australia dealt with the influx of "boat people" by pushing them into camps on remote islands where they could be forgotten. But it never really worked out that way and they are still dealing with the situation over a decade later. Much like the Guantanamo detainees who have been there for two decades and counting. I could make another comparison: it doesn't matter if the "camp" (the administration wants to deny that they anything so crude as a "camp") isn't in Colorado (or other western states) and isn't named Manzanar (or whatever the other camps were named) and isn't housing American citizens; it is still moving vulnerable people beyond the range of the American justice system. And given the latest breakdown of the number of detained people, that about half were not suspected or convicted of crimes, I don't think all will be "hardened criminals."
For a bit of levity look at this piece I found on CROOKS & LIARS. Evidently the Danes aren't impressed with Trump.
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