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To celebrate yesterday's First Day of Fall, here is our great grand, Bella-girl!
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Good morning to one and all. I welcome you to another visit from my humble abode to yours, on this
Wednesday, September 23, 2020. Taking a cue from Bro. Piper in today's title, maybe I should list my job as a repackager since most of what I share are things restated but very similar to what we all have seen and heard before. It's like we all show up and get on the train but end up pretty much passing the same scenery each day. Often, I succumb to the obvious and talk about the weather. Speaking of which, we have had two days of medium steady rain. Off and on, but, mostly on. Not hard rain. This came to us compliments of Tropical Storm Beta. Best I can find out, we have received a little over 2 inches of rain. It seems like that number should be higher. It is supposed to end this morning. Certain areas south of us took another pretty serious hit in terms of flooding. Our eldest and our youngest have to be out and about a lot due to their job responsibilities. Yesterday, the eldest drove through an intersection with 2 feet of water. The youngest became a part of a huge downtown Houston parking lot out on the freeway waiting for water to subside. We felt better when both of them made it back to their homes later in the afternoon. Our resident Shih Tzu, Mr. Bentley, does not care for the wet. He doesn't like to go out in the rain. Necessity typically wins the battle but after being dried off he lets us know he is none too happy with the situation.
Bentley will mark his second year this coming November. He has been a member of our family since January of 2019. To say he has changed our world is an understatement. Turned it upside down might be a better way to put it. He in many ways dominates via his personality and antics. We had no direct personal experience with having a pet in the house with us and could have never guessed we would ever have one that loves so outlandishly. The wife used to tell everyone he is more spoiled than a baby, but, I think she now believes him to be passed that stage, maybe 'ruined' would be a more apt description. The photo shows him on his favorite viewing perch. He enjoys being able to survey his kingdom from there. He is naturally funny and brings a lot of laughs to our day by day living. I hear a lot regarding his development about what we should have done and not done, but, here we are, and, here he is, and, we know he has been a blessing. At times, a very annoying blessing, but, a blessing none-the-less. He is popular in our neighborhood. He posts from time to time on Facebook to a page devoted to Shih Tzus. He is very popular on that page as well. I can hear my grandfather now, "Son, who would have ever thought?"
This current debacle involving the confirmation of a new Supreme Court Justice is, in many ways, laughable. It's as if hypocrisy and politics have only now been found to be companions joined at the hip. I am for doing it because I am a conservative and this window may not be open again in the near future. I have not drilled down too far into all the ins and outs here, but, we do have a Republican President, and, we do have a Republican majority in the US Senate. That's not to say the vote is guaranteed, but, it is the best circumstance any sitting president could hope for as it relates to getting a confirmation. The mainstream media has joined the Democrats in being aghast that this might happen. The Democrat leadership has said they might impeach the president for exercising his constitutional duty. Go back to my first sentence of this paragraph and read that word again, laughable! No one doubts we are a divided nation. And, the idea of replacing one of the most liberal activist justices in our history with someone who is more inclined to yield to the clear meaning in our constitution, well, it is easy to see why they use words like, "We will burn the Senate down." I say, let's get on with it! And, pray God will be with us all.
Amen. .....More later.
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