By Holly the Assistant
Quicksilver here feels this is an important enough point that she actually held still, almost, for a photo last night! She’s an aptly named kitty.
Quicksilver would like very much to inform you that her big brother Indy and big sisters Muse and Circe, and courtesy Uncle Havey, need you to please drop a few bucks in the annual blog fundraiser for churu supplies.
Sarah is in fine shape and off doing Sarah things with her Dan, and I am updating the blog so you know she’s still alive. (We know you: you start to fret.)
I can’t say that there’s much to report on our front except for this being the worst year yet for growing food. Wildlife, however, has delivered on entertainment. We had two sets of magpie nestlings, and watching the parents try to teach the dozen or so youngsters how to magpie is fun. “You expect me to CATCH a grasshopper? How about I just open my beak and you stick one in?”
We also have baby hummingbirds again: haven’t spotted the nests, but the babies are coming to the hummingbird feeder, zipping around as they do. Last year was a bad year for the hummers, almost none returned from migration. This year they’re rebuilding numbers, probably because we’re all dedicated to feeding them, because with the ongoing drought there are few flowers.
The does are teaching the fawns to cross the road: caught one showing her fawn to look both ways before crossing and wait for my vehicle before they did this morning. We’ll see how many survive.
Watching national politics has also been entertainment these last few weeks–McConnell? Platner? Seriously? Not sure which party is more . . . absurd here. Local politics are humming along as murkily as usual, tiny pond, moderately sized fish, lots of mud. (Tiny pond? A friend lost her primary by 40 votes. That tiny.) All in all I prefer rural politics: few participants, you know them all personally, and they all have to live together win or lose. Also if someone’s in the hospital you know, and probably took his family a casserole.
I believe I have managed to attach Sarah’s fundraising links, so go ahead and do that, thank you. Pretty Silvy wishes you to keep her kin in churu. You wouldn’t want to let that sweet face down, would you?
If you wish to donate: There is a Give Send Go fundraiser for this specific fundraiser set up. Here is a Paypal Me Link if you prefer that. (Yes, I know. Paypal, but for now, they’re behaving.) If you have a monthly donation setup to the permanent Give Send Go, that is still working and thank you! There are also two substacks you can subscribe to. One is on the side bar of the blog, the other is supposed to be a newsletter, as well as giving you chapters of the current work in progress if you become a paid subscriber. It takes cards. For snail mail: Sarah Hoyt 304 S Jones Blvd #6771 Las Vegas, NV 89107
According To Hoyt 
Platner is the very heart and soul of the Democratic Party. Democrats were fooling themselves to think that supporting him mattered then. They are fooling themselves to think that whatever their current positions on him matter now.
In general, the inside baseball of positioning this far out, and away from choice events, does not really matter all that much.
McGenbu is one of the four cardinel guardians, and ceremonially is extremely important to the national future.
I’ve started following the world cup, and think the geopolitical implications are vitally important, but I am probably going to quit before the Switzerland-Columbia game starts in a couple hours.
I’m basically a bit stupid and irresponsible today. I lost a bunch of (metaphorical) sleep points last night to reading a fanfic that, objectively, was good for me to skip until this point in my life. I’m not sure if I would have lost anything for skipping it longer.
On the bright side, I have learned more about some of my decision making processes, and about the specifics of fumbling certain sorts of tasks.
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In the broad view, Platner and Talarico are probably fairly temporary losses for the Democrats.
It is a little bit normal for political parties to have a bunch of would be internal kingmakers, and it is not that unusual for (especially) inexperienced or disoriented ones to mess up very badly.
Possibly the German government monies that supported the New York politicians involved in trying to win with Platner in Maine are in violation of German anti-Nazi rules, or in violation of the alleged EU anti-Nazi customs.
Anyway, for Platner and Talarico to be a lasting problem for the Democrats, one of them would have to win, and the Democrats would have to not self-destruct by making terrible bets.
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Perhaps Platner is a distraction?
I mean, I’ve read people talking about how the Democrats thought that since they think working class men are Nazis and rapists, they should appeal to them — but it’s too obviously comic.
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You mean that Indy and the cats Didn’t Kidnap Sarah????? [Crazy Grin]
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scribble scribble Eh? Nooz? Give a few weeks, then we’ll check on it again.
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Hopefully the funding will continue through the weekend, when I can take time to donate. (sooooo busy, soooooo tired)
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I won’t know if I can contribute until later this fall. Which is normal. I use the snail mail drop.
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Jase T Cat is on the back of the couch, impersonating a throw pillow. Although, if he sags any more, he might be mistaken for an afghan.
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Deer tend to kamikazee cars. Best I can figure, their escape strategy is to charge the moving threat, then veer off at the last instant so they and the threat are moving away from each other fast. That’s why they’ll turn back at you when you try to dodge tem on the highway.
The strategy doesn’t work with things movining over 88 feet/second.
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