hardly moved yesterday...

 and now back to work.  quick blog first i guess.

 hopefully i can hit the trail. it's a safe place for me.

 far away from the temptations of commenting.  i'm bad.  i know. i have to stop.

 the swing...after i had been tackled off of it by Ivy.

 she for sure needed a bit of a rest yesterday. i made an appointment to get her hips checked out.  hoping some pain meds and conservative management for the time. i'm not for jumping into surgery too quickly.  she is young and active though so it may end up being an option. with Rio she just wasn't active, was blind and had separation issues.

 where to walk today? nothing too strenuous for the girl. 

 i really can't believe this month is almost over. the time flies so quickly. i feel i've barely done anything this summer.  crazy.

 i think, like many, i want to put this year behind and move forward. i doubt it will be that easy. 

 there will no doubt be much more civil unrest verging on some sort of civil war.  this kid drove with his weapon across state lines thinking he was helping the police. but instead he fired that weapon.  rumors and false reports all over have those on the right making him into a hero and demeaning those who he killed as being worthy of death of having been pedophiles. no idea what is true or not in all this yet, but i suspect the sources of this information are sketch at best.

 it doesn't even matter if they were pedophiles, the kid had no way of knowing whether they were or were not people with a record.  if i enter a bar and start shooting and happen to kill a few gang members with long rap sheets, that doesn't make me right or a hero and it doesn't discount the others i killed who were innocent.  we have courts and laws and a system in place.  it can be corrupt at times and the equality of it is questionable at times as well, but still we have a system.  we fix the system, we don't go rogue.

 rioting and looting should not be happening, which is why the communities have put up curfews.  calling these democrat cities or democrat states is bull because there are also plenty of Republicans and independents and others living there.  having a democrat in charge doesn't mean that the entire town is democrat.  it's just hate speech. 

 i put bait out there today and a guy grabbed it.  said yes he is ready for civil war and ready to kill.  he is so consumed with hate and fear that he is easy to manipulate into saying on facebook that he is ready to kill those citizens who think differently.  fear and hate make people easy to manipulate. the sad thing is in places like Rwanda, Germany and Bosnia.  those in power, easily manipulate the regular folks to do their killing for them.  they sit back in their ivory towers laughing at how easy it was to get the mayhem started.  how powerful they are.

 i guess speaking out in any way is doing something, even if it gets me called crazy on facebook. we have no power at this time. there is so much misinformation out there and people are sucking it up and leaping on it.

 there is no patience.  there is hate. there is fear. there is anger.  these are not emotions that will lead to calm, they will lead to more unrest.  we have someone in the white house who stokes this.  the entire RNC this week has been a message of lies and hate and fear.  he never makes any attempt to find bridges to peace only drops bombs of division.

 it doesn't matter who the Dems put up against him, the right will create lies and conspiracies and their base will just eat it all up. it all seems pretty hopeless at this point. i've no doubt this kids shooting incident will only be the first of many, many that will be much larger. the rioters/looters will bring weapons, the instigators from the other side will bring weapons.  things will blow up and lives will be lost.

 and trump will sit on his golden toilet with a smile on his face looking forward to his next golf game.

 still a few flowers out there.  not many though.

 winter cometh. 

 the dead fish seem telling of this nations future right now.  hoping we can stay a bit out of the fray up here.  though i am fairly liberal and this is mostly a trump state. will i be a target?

 its depressing times and there is still this pandemic going on. fake news to many. our nation must look like a shit show to those outside.

 there was also a hurricane that made landfall last night.  thankfully, it appears relatives are all safe and relatives of relatives appear safe as well..so that is good news.

 charred trees from the fire.  was pretty though with all the bright pink flowers all around.  the fireweed is really blooming in that area on the Kenai.

 happy dogs !!  they love the ocean.

 lucky them, they are blissfully unaware of the current situations. 

 i'll head to work and it will blur all that is going on outside.  my focus will be the patients and the pandemic.

 check out these monsters!!

 they are starting to rot more and more.  mushrooms are the clean up crew in nature.

 i started to binge watch this netflix series on matchmaking in India. seems crazy really.  they take marriage very seriously as a family event...or so it seems.

 hard to look away. 

 mostly i chilled, read, did cross word puzzles. enjoyed the pups and cats.

 Covi went in and out.  he enjoys being outside, but i don't think he's too keen on the wet paws.

 i see clouds and blue skies today...just in time to return to work, haha.

 here are the pups totally enjoying resting near the fire at the beach.

 liked how this stone was cracked...then the sea life takes over the space in the crevice and life thrives.

 these mushrooms decay looked like aliens i think.

 not a glorious sunset the second night but not bad...it never is.

 the jellies were out.  really just had one low tide to enjoy each day as the second one was in the sleeping hours.  the first day the tide was pretty low though so that was cool.  long enough to enjoy Bishops Beach and the Spit. then the tide was starting to go out by sunset.

 sunset is much earlier.  i guess there is starting to be more opportunities for aurora watching.  will have to start looking at those forecasts.

 nature is constant.  it ebbs and flows.  humans are erratic.  can't be trusted.

 i will try to stick to animals and nature more in the future....

 the first nights sunset was a bit more magical

 cute little mushroom

 walk at Kelly Lake.

 have a gift card for REI. haven't been in stores really since before this covid stuff started.  i do need some new pants though for hiking. perhaps my next stretch off i will brave the store.

 well, i have bored you no doubt...if you read.  or pissed you off i guess.

 the truth is i no longer care if i piss people off.  it's just gotten so irrational out there. 

 how do you avoid the madness and stay sane?

thankful for A.  the people who are still in my life and tolerate me B.  fur time C. that i have a job even though some days it's really not easy to be there.