May 17, 19

 Our heavy fog is beginning to lift. I am waiting until it is gone before I continue putting plants into their places. The forecasters say we should have nice sun later. We are watching the Weather Channel and its coverage of the mess in the south, especially in Houston. We really didn't want to see the dissections of the cross-examination of Michael Cohen and the Beauty Pageant of Republicans hoping Trump will pick one of them for his running mate. Of course, those Republicans were from the business tax paying citizens are paying them to do. Not that it mattered much because one of the committee meetings that was postponed degenerated into a grade school bitch fight. They finally settled down long enough to recommend Merrick Garland be impeached in another fit of posturing.

Some weeks ago Emanuel Macron strongly suggested that France and the EU shift to a war economy. This week Putting replaced his long time defense minister Shoigu with a technocrat economist with the mission to firmly integrate the civilian and military economies. Estonia has increased its military spending to 3% of GDP, participated in joint military exercises and is training its civilians in "trench warfare." Poland is also. I wonder how far this militarization will go.

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Sunny for now but rain should come in later and persist through tomorrow. We are so disgusted with the continuous coverage of Trump's New York trial with the microscopic examination of various aspects incessantly. Instead we put on a channel that had the first three Jurassic Park movies. I wasn't totally unambitious and put several more plants into the pots. I remember when I would have had all pots on the patio planted in one day. But, as my brother noted a while ago, we have entered our "old, fat, and slow" age. I just turned 75 last month and I am certainly fat and slow. (In case you wonder, Brother is 73 and matches me in the other attributes.

I just finished putting most of the rest of the plants we picked up Wednesday. But the gardens are only half planted. I will need another trip to get the rest. I also reduced the number of bucket by one. I used Flex-tape last year to cover a split but I noticed that, though still holding, the area is beginning to bow. I was using the soil in some of the buckets to fill some pots so I simply used what was in that bucket and then put it in the trash. If I regain some energy I might fill an empty bucket I found earlier this year. I might use it for storage instead of planting in it. Right now I am resting before planting the last couple of pots. 

Done for the day. Time to read.