Tidbit remodels

Got a handyman coming Friday to hang two living room mirrors, drill holes in kitchen cabinets for ceramic pull knobs, string fairy lights on the back porch and retrieve a screen fallen off a window and rehang it.

Meanwhile the neighbor’s re-modelers are putting down hardwood flooring and making plenty of noise doing it. I guess they’re not really tidbitting.

Twin Pecan Trees

That’s what I’ve decided are the twin grandfather trees off our back porch at Neely’s Canyon. By the shape of their leaves, which are spearhead-like.

And that explains why the squirrels like to play on them, says Barbara Ellen. Ah, but I have seen them play on big oaks, too.

Too bad we can’t gather their pecans, but they are deeply rooted a good hundred feet down the steep slope of the canyon and therefore unreachable. Chiefly because it would be a bear for us two old fogies  to climb back up.

UPDATE: The trees, actually an outgrowth of one trunk at the base, are well over 100-feet high. May have been seasonal harvesting of pecans by a hundred years or more of visits by indigenous people and later, local ranchers.

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Rule 5: Ashley Alexiss

The calming Dr. Birx

The WaPo, second only in uselessness to the world’s most over-rated newspaper, i.e. The NYSlimes, hopes to scare as many as possible. Because that sells newspapers?

Says Dr. Deborah Birx, of the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force:

“Please, for the reassurance of people around the world, to wake up this morning and look at people talking about creating DNR situations — do not resuscitate situations for patients — there is no situation in the United States right now that warrants that kind of discussion.“

Nor is it likely to, though time will tell.

Via PJMedia

Crazy Nancy’s delay

The umpty-trillion stimulus package, to principally help hourly workers furloughed by small business passed yesterday (Wednesday) in the Senate by unanimous consent, meaning including the Dimocrats.

But Crazy Nancy has to put off the House’s vote until Friday morning when she’s recalled the members from their little vacation during a pandemic. Even though it could be passed electronically by unanimous consent without recalling them. Gotta whoop up on Trump, apparently, and by extension on those hourly workers who ought to promise themselves to remember this play as they dig into their cat food.

Every day Trump makes his enemies look smaller. And g-d knows, Pelosi does.

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Rule 5: Ashley Alexiss

Pronoun comedy

“Soon, however, the conflict erupted again when Meriwether forgot and said, “Mr. Doe.” Even though he immediately corrected himself, the damage had been done. Doe again complained about Meriwether’s unequal treatment of students in class, saying that (s)he might hire a lawyer and bring a Title IX action against the university if something weren’t done about the professor.”

Really quite ludicrous, except for the suppression of free speech. Screw the little twerp and the judge who found for him. Her. It.

Via Instapundit