But not with the rain. Oh, the rain keeps pounding. It keeps roaring. I remember watching The Killing on Netflix, a well-done but dark crime series that takes place in Seattle, and it was obvious to us that the producers/writers/whomever-in-charge had never even BEEN to Seattle before. It depicted constant, drenching, drowning, raging rain day after day after day after day. The truth is, we mostly just get a lot of drizzle. Thunder & lightning are pretty rare. Fire-hosing rain happens, but it’s typically short-lived and out of the ordinary. But it is November (my least favorite month) and this is the month that if we’re going to get a deluge (or a windstorm), this is when it’ll happen. It just seems like it’s been going on forever. I worry about major landslides. It’s quite hilly everywhere.
It took John 3-1/2 hours (actually going on FOUR hours) to drive home from the Hydroplane Museum last night (in the pitch dark with wipers on full-bore and headlight glare everywhere). That’s a drive that usually takes 1-1/2 – 2 hours. Areas of I-5 were flooded. God, it’s just relentless.
BUT!!! Today Attorney General Merrick Garland FINALLY came through (there were lots of doubts that he would) and Steve Bannon has now been indicted on two counts of Contempt of Congress (for flashing his middle fingers at his subpoena to appear before the Congressional 1/6 Committee or to provide required documents). He is a despicable (deplorable) scumbag who served in trump’s administration with the goal to “deconstruct every government institution.” He also set up a scam to have trump supporters donate millions of dollars so he could “build the border wall to keep out ‘illegals’” and then he pocketed the money. Yep, he was indicted for that, and then was pardoned by TFG at the last minute before he was forced out of the White House. By the way, “TFG” means “the former guy” on social media, but someone today deemed it “That Fucking Guy” which is way more spot on.
Also as of tonight, the old sofa and recliner are now GONE. I’d posted on Facebook’s “Harstine Community” photos of the old sofa and recliner available for free (“but you need to come and get and transport”), and you betcha I got a whole LOT of responses. I picked the first person who responded and arranged for them to pick them up tonight. It was a bit of an ordeal with them having a tough time coming down our driveway (and then deciding not to) and then hauling these heavy thangs UP the driveway to their truck! (And she was a…large woman, although amazingly STRONG. Her wimpy son was pretty much a wimp! Heh heh). Anyway, old stuff is GONE and my car is back inside the garage! It made me feel good how excited they were (well, SHE was excited) about the sofa and recliner. (They are leather, after all. They were pretty nice when we bought them 2o years ago, and they’re still not bad aside from the cat scratches and weakened cushions). The son (who I think is who will get them) had nothing to say. I have an image of him hurrying home with the furniture and getting reclined and smoking his weed. Which is fine.
So, I haven’t enjoyed sitting on the couch or recliner all these years to watch TV. The leather was too soft, the reclining was TOO reclined; I prefer to have my legs out and supported, but my back straight. The old furniture didn’t give me that option. But the NEW FURNITURE DOES!! It’s electrically powered and there are OPTIONS! I love it! And the cup holders are da bomb! I’ve been enjoying hanging out to watch our current binging series and enjoying the view of the living room and dining room. (I love our house! It’s…just very cool!) And Wylie has been confused, jumping up on my lap to cuddle and then jumping down to jump up on John’s lap to cuddle. Like, multiple times during the evening! Back and forth. Cats are so funny. And weird.
We decided to not get rid of the Lazy Boy, and it’s now in our bedroom. It won’t be actually “used” in there, I don’t think, but it does look pretty nice. It’s my appendage. There are just too many sentimental memories attached to it, so I am happy to keep it.
Here’s lil’ Nate in the Lazy Boy:
And his son, eating popcorn and lounging in the Lazy Boy:
Yeah, no way I can get rid of that thing.
"Everything that gets labeled “far-left” in the US is just common sense policy in the rest of the industrialized world. Guaranteed health care. Paid family leave. Government drug price negotiation.
This stuff isn’t radical. We’re talking about the basics of a functioning society."
