Sorry my bird-camp posts grew so sparse. I’ll do better next year, when I’m not preparing a rental property/to move.
But just a brief update, for those of who you interest yourselves in A.’s whereabouts. The season has finished out satisfactorily — “not perfect, but okay,” she says, which probably means that any normal human being [...]
…when the Republicans wanted to use the “nuclear option” of ending the practice of filibustering in Congress? Now they’re on track to become the world-record holding, all-time champions of the filibuster.
“Nearly 1 in 6 roll-call votes in the Senate this year have been cloture votes. If this pace of blocking legislation continues, this 110th [...]
…to be an American, after reading this quote from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowlands on her treatment at the hands of this country’s Christianist extremists.
“I had one letter from a vicar in England — this is the difference — saying would I please not put Christmas trees at Hogwarts as it was clearly a pagan [...]
The various routines I used to document here are in smoking ruins, but at least the house looks great. To reorient you, there were essentially two classes of things I needed to do/have done to the house before the move. One was “stuff that a full price rental needs to have taken care of” and [...]