4.9 wake up call at 0521....

 so hanging pictures yesterday, maybe still premature.  we average 10 quakes/hour...i guess baseline is 10 earthquakes/day.  most of the quakes we don't notice....at least i don't.  this mornings early wake up i did notice.  it was a pretty solid shake.  woke me up and i was awake for long enough to pay attention to it. nothing fell, nothing broke.  i guess aftershocks that are big enough can have their own aftershocks...crazy stuff. 

 i did finish my door project.  does look brighter!!  much prettier than the ugly old doors so worth the effort i think. still need to change out old light fixtures. no handyman today...half expecting him to show up any day.  he seems to show up when I'm working though.  not planned just how it works.  who needs sleep.  haha.

 i moved a few things back in the kitchen.  will wait until the under cabinet lights go in to add stuff to the lower upper shelves, just in case he needs to get in there....also holding off putting anything in the top areas as i figure they will need to use that area to get the counters in.

 my old stuff looks so sad as i put it away. will need to buy a new set of pots/pans i think. still trying to figure out what will work best where.  I'm sure I'll switch things up a bit as i get in the kitchen. 

 enjoying my new ice maker in the freezer.  though the dogs still seem to startle when it makes it's noises and drops ice....is this post quake? 

 i was late getting to bed last night anyway, so having a quake wake me up after just a few hours sleep was no fun.  did get back to sleep after a bit.  right after the quake i got up to check on dogs and all....i only had one slipper.  i joked with my sister later that the quake through that slipper right out the dog door...she believed me, silly girl, so i then told her i believed it more likely one of the dogs dragged it out the dog door. at least they didn't chew it up so i put it up to dry after being caked with snow.  we got a bit through the day.

 i worked a bit on the door and then headed out to the dog park with the dogs. 

 back to work again for two nights tomorrow night.  i guess ICU called today. lots of patients that are 1:1 so they were looking for help.  i didn't see my messages until just a bit ago though. 

 stopped by the post office to ask about my mail...still none.  seems odd around Christmas to get zero mail. i know it was busted for a few days but the neighborhood mail box seems to be operational...where is the mail?  strange.

 the iitoo treats every time he talks to any group as a campaign rally...even captive audiences like the military.  he finally popped out to see troops in an area of unrest, he screws everything he touches up...such a royal F-UP.  talking crap about the Dem's, lying about giving them a 10% raise, posting photo's of Seals faces and location.  the man can't do a thing right. 

 I'm getting antsy to start organizing the mess post kitchen remodel.  i am excited to get this all behind me...it's been a long haul.  the day i lost my sink until the day i get the sink functioning again.  that will be a great day. 

 dust is all over.  will need to do a few loads of dishes as soon as the dishwasher is hooked up.  will be nice to cook and not eat out. 

 pups were good at Home Depot today.  i just needed to get the last bit of trim for the door project.  still need to paint the trim in the front part of the entry.  debating color choice, may paint it the blue from the kitchen rather than the grey/white I've used for the other trim.  the pain in that area is yellow and the grey/white just hadn't popped...thinking the blue may be a good contrast to the yellow.

 next project is stairs/rails/halls and lights.  the downstairs bathroom could use an update and new flooring, but that will wait a bit i think. i would love to move the laundry out to the garage and put a shower stall in the downstairs bath making it 2 full baths in the place. would be great when folks visit to have a second shower. the bathroom will wait though. the stairs look pretty bad with the chewed up carpet.

 liked these sunset train shots....

 it was snowing today and cloudy.  not sure how much of a sunset came through.

 i should at least be getting to bed much earlier tonight than previous nights.  still a fairly lazy feeling day today..though i did accomplish quite a bit.

 Is-Is is not gone....they have stashed millions of dollars in stolen gold and cash...our rapid withdrawal and ceding of our responsibility for what we started will no doubt lead to trouble down the road.  the Kurds, who have assisted us, will be abandoned to unknown fate. our credibility in global politics is getting destroyed. i suspect the iitoo agreed to much in that 1:1 meet with Put..it seems more and more clear that our POTUS is owned by Put... the GOP were complete and utter fools to have allowed a meet without anyone else in the room between those two.  complete and utter fools to not have any interest in looking at the iitoo financial ties.  they are either totally incompetent or total fools or they are somehow benefiting from it all beyond just getting an agenda passed.

 perhaps it will just be a tough pill to swallow...discovering that all the conspiracy theories about HRC turned out to be peanuts compared to the reality of the corruption and greed in their own administration.  people are actually going to jail who have direct relation to the iitoo, on the other side after literally decades of "investigation" there is really zip to show for it all.  as i have said before, either there just is not as much there as they have tried to convince us all or they are the most incompetent group of investigators there are. 

 cohen today was denying he was in Prague though reports are that his phone was in the area.  was he there? how deep does this all go?  some folks need to wake up....the crooks are in the hen house and they are running our nation into the ground.

 sunset as i headed home.

 life can change, no freedom is safe....we have been lulled into a sense of permanent safety in this nation as we've had so many great decades of relative peace on our own land...

 we see now that there are many ways to work around our system.  many things that we took for granted were actual rules when they were just "the way it's always been done".  that only works when we have leadership that respects rules, laws and tradition.  this current administration respects none of those things. 

grateful for: A. peace of snow falling B.  night C. sweet puppies