A Dilemna

Turns out there is a dilemna about the spelling of the word. Is it dilemna or dilemma??

How Long A Period Of Sleep Is A Wink??

Or how do you catch a wink as in catching 40 winks?? This morning I woke up and looked at the time on the clock radio and thought I'd roll over and try to catch 40 winks. Then wondered about how long is a wink and almost didn't fall asleep again. Thru sheer effort of will I was able to go back to sleep. I'm usually pretty good at that.

Containment

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The Repealicans

Boner says not to judge them on how many laws they pass, but how many they repeal. Well, in both instances the score is ZERO!!!!!!!!

If Only This Was True!!

Now We Know Where It Started

One Of The Usual Suspects

This morning The Old Lady looked out and saw one of the rats that has been eating her flowers and grapevines, etc. He is a nice looking "rat with antlers". An eight point buck.

Took this picture thru the storm door on the back door. Didn't want to scare him away as he was only about 15 feet away and I wanted to get a clear picture. I usually don't see bucks around, just the does, but this guy hasn't been bothered here and I guess he feels pretty safe in coming around in daylight.

Here he is browsing on an apple tree. Or as The Old Lady would say, "Giraffe eating the acacia tree". All the apple trees have all the lower branches stripped of leaves.

This I think is a picture of the same guy taken two years ago. That time he was with his sister and mother.

On Being Treated Like a Greek God

As long as we've been together The Old Lady has been treating me like a Greek God. She gives me burnt offerings. Yesterday she had a legitimate excuse, the oven fucked up. She was baking a pie and checked on it halfway thru the time for baking and it was already starting to burn. She turned the oven down and I checked a few minutes later. Even with the oven set at 300* the temp was over 500*. Looks like the control valve for the oven isn't working properly. The gas stove is 40 years old and we've had to replace the control valve once before (that time it had the opposite problem, the burner would come on until it reached the set temp and then wouldn't come on again even when the oven cooled), but that was when the stove was still under warranty. Now the question is whether we get the old stove repaired or break down and buy a new stove. One of the things we've liked about this stove is when the power goes out, it still works. Gas stoves with a clock or other electrical stuff won't work when the power goes out. You may be able to light the burners with a match, but that is about it, the oven won't work. The Old Lady is starting to look at stoves online. She found one that uses batteries to ignite the burners, so that may work when the power goes out. (Actually we are pretty fortunate with the power situation, it's not very often that we are without power and when it does go out it is restored in a matter of hours.)