Check Engline Light

Coming home from church yesterday, my Check Engine Light came on.

I had two appointments at 1 and 2, so I took my car to English Auto Shop in the morning.

I only had to wait 10 minutes and one of the English brothers came out and plugged a computer into someplace under the dash.

In a couple of minutes, he opened my little glass door and screwed in the gas cap.

That was what it was!

I said, "I'm an idiot!"

He said, "at least you can admit it. Lots of idiots can't."

So, I'm an idiot as well as a klutz.

At least I know it and can admit it.

They didn't charge me.

If you live in Cheshire, go to English Auto Shop if you need something.

They are great. We've be going there for over 30 years.

They're the best.

And they don't charge idiots who admit that they are....

I am a klutz

All packaging challenges me. I can't unwrap most anything, even it has been opened (like our dog's food) and resealed. I just can't manage it.

Bern always 'makes' me something for Christmas and I write her something. I've often written about our granddaughters and their super powers. Tegan can make things fly. Morgan can change into anything. Emma can sing things into being and in a different song, make people unable to see what is happening.

This year I put Eleanor and our dog, Brigit, into the mix.

The story is called, "Five Girls Save the World".

And they do.

But, trying to print out the story tonight, my printer got stuck.

So, I had to call Bern to help me fix it.

I have to call Bern to help me fix lots of things.

She got the paper out and I started printing again and the same thing happened--stuck sheets.

My printer is a nightmare.

I fixed it myself this time and the story is printed, I just have to find a binder and those lovely plastic sheets--which I have trouble putting paper into--to make it ready for Christmas.

Being a klutz isn't the worst thing you could be.

You could be the man who is President (and I won't name) and the Republican members of Congress.

My father never voted for a Democrat and I have, until now, disagreed with but respected Republicans. But their undying loyalty to this President has caused me to stop respecting them. Just like I've stopped respecting Evangelicals who have sold out their moral stands to stand instead with this President.

I feel bad about my ceasing to respect Republicans and Evangelicals. I always thought we just didn't agree but were all longing for the best.

Wrong and klutzy again.

rain or don't rain

The last two days in Connecticut, we have lived with drizzle.

Not really 'rain', but not 'not rain' either.

It's been miserable and bleak.

With the temperature near freezing, we've watched our step on sidewalks and been carefully driving.

Rain or don't rain, is what I say.

Then, day before yesterday I was taking a plate out of the kitchen cabinet and the cabinet pulled away from the wall. I called Bern and we emptied it and put a book under it to hold it somewhat up.

Paul Bowman is sending us a guy to fix it on Monday. He said, "it will take him longer to get his tools out of the truck than to fix this."

I hope so.

And we have water in our back basement and need it pumped out and the foundation by the outside door fixed.

Paul will handle that as well.

He's the only Republican I've ever voted for. He's on the town council and has helped us with repairs before. I trust him.

Cheshire Republicans are not like DC Republicans. They are decent, honorable people.

But in all my years of voting, he's the only Republican I've ever voted for.

A man who helps fix your house deserves your vote.

Add the President of Brazil to Greta's hit list...

The President of Brazil, a potential dictator, called Greta Thunberg a 'brat'.

But guess who came to her defense and called for her to shrug it off and keep working against climate change?

Guess who?

The woman who is still my 'first lady', Michelle Obama.

That my spell check still doesn't recognize Obama pisses me off more than the President of Brazil.

Give me a break!

The son of the President (Who Will Not Be Named) and that same President both took on, of all people Greta Thunberg, the 16 year old Climate activist from Sweden who speaks better English than either of her detractors do (love the Swedes, such linguists).

HWWNBNed Jr., went on line to blast Time Magazine for choosing Greta as Person of the Year. He said it should have been the protestors in Hong Kong. He might have a point but he was undercutting the only person on the planet who has gotten more media attention this year than his father. She is an inter-national treasure and voice of sanity in an insane world.

Then his father, the President, said in a speech in Hershey, PA that he loved Hershey chocolate (no surprise there) and that Greta has 'anger issues' and should 'Chill out and watch a movie with a friend'.

Greta (why she's an international treasure) changed her intro on her twitter account to: 'a teenager dealing with anger issues who is chilling out and watching a movie with a friend."

How can you beat that?

Besides, it was revealed lately that last summer the President's son went to Africa and shot an endangered sheep!

Who shoots sheep? Especially endangered ones?

As hard as it would be in a sane world, the son may be as big an asshole as the father.

Imagine that!

Leave Greta alone. She's done more good in her young years than either of you have.

Who's reading this?

In the last few weeks the readership of this blog has fallen off from almost 200 a day to some days in the 80's.

Am I being too political?

What's up with the readership?

Let me know.

Tell folks to read it...pass it along.

I'm feeling like no  one is listening.

Being a little pitiful, I known.

Who's reading this?

Today's the day...

The Democrats in the House filed Articles of Impeachment today!

I'm not happy about it, but it the right--perhaps, the 'only'--thing they could do. I'm saddened we've come to this point--but this is where we are.

Republicans have made baseless conspiracy theories (Democratic server in Ukraine, Biden somehow to blame, Ukraine not Russia interfered in the 2016 election--all false) but have no way to substantively refute the clear and dangerous facts that the President invited (perhaps by withholding aid and a White House meeting) to get Ukraine to investigate two American citizens and he ignored the constitution and did not allow Congress to have documents and interview witnesses in order to do their duty to 'check and balance' the Executive Branch of our government.

The Articles will pass the House but probably fail in the Senate.

I simply can't understand why Republicans in both Houses of Congress cannot see the clear and present danger this President  presents to our democracy.

My father--a good and decent man--was a life-long Republican, but he would have been horrified by Republicans not doing 'what's right' and siding with a man who has violated his oath of office in a myriad of ways.

Alas and alack.