Well we decided that we aren't going outside at all today. We had ten+ emergency alerts just a few minutes ago for a snow squall coming in from Lake Michigan. And they expect high winds with dropping temperatures. I won't even put the trash tote out for collection--it can wait til next week, or even to retrieve mail, if we get any--that can wait til tomorrow.
Bill Astore has a very on point essay today. I remember when the Soviet Union imploded and all the experts in politics, foreign affairs, and military planning crowed about the expected "peace dividend." Well, that never came. We quickly deployed troops for the Gulf War to get Saddam out of Kuwait. That was followed by the next Gulf War, Afghanistan (after 9/11), then Iraq to finish off Saddam. We have been involved in various wars that were never called wars in any formal way. And the "defense" budgets kept ratcheting up. Even as DOGE cut non-defense spending and agencies the budgets appropriations for the Pentagon kept going up. Since the Department of Defense has never passed a credible audit it is very misleading to call their hoard of cash a "budget."
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Bright sun this morning after the clouds cleared out. We got about two inches of snow though the drifts were a bit higher. It is still a bit cold and a bit breezy. I am not as lazy as I was yesterday. Did our usual load of laundry and swept around the cats' feeding area. They are a bit messy with their food. I hadn't intended to use the vacuum but last night I blundered into the small shelves that hold our DVD collection and two of our prize clowns fell off. One came through pretty will with only a bit of the sole of the foot broken off. The other I am afraid did not fare well at all. Unfortunately, it was the one I was most attached to. I remember going with Mom when she picked it out as a birthday present for her mother. It was a multicolor blown glass statue and broke into several pieces. I know from experience that it isn't reparable because I tried to repair a part of it that had broken decades ago--damned careless moving company. That was only one part but I was never able to weld it back to the main statue. Grandma has been gone for nearly 40 years and Mom is 95 later this year. It hurts to lose such a piece of my life but I wrapped up the pieces and laid it to rest in the trash tote.
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We have another round of lake effect snow squalls. I managed to get a bill I needed to mail into the mail box but going out to bring in the incoming mail enough snow had fallen that the ice on the sidewalk was obscured. I managed to hit a patch of ice and fell hard. It took me about 10 minutes and two more falls to get my feet under me and get back inside. Luckily I didn't break anything but I will be hobbling around like I am 90 instead of 16.
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