nice folks can really be detrimental to society. you gotta be willing to rock the boat!

 

week one done. always a great feeling.  this week i got put on call briefly, but the perk of that is that i got overtime for a regular shift and went home early so it's like i worked the entire night. lucky me. above is my female cat Miss Breezy Chatterbug. below is Sir Covid Cat. they must have elaborate names.  haha. 

i was just settling in to do some of that paper shredding i had been talking about when the call came in to head to work.  ended up in pacu for several hours. moved patients for them. wasn't too bad, but they just had more coming out from OR than they had staff for. it all worked out, i headed to ER to give breaks and after that, i went home.  an on call is a rare beast these days.

the next two nights i worked Renal care and then PICU. 

a cool rock someone else painted that i left for a co-worker one night.  

that puppy face...now he's a big boy.  he gets so many compliments on his haircut...well, i guess really i should accept the compliments since i do the hair cut.  he has always been adorable. i always figured i would doodle my poodle when it came to the cut but this cut really just seems to work for him and he is a poodle...so i found a bit of a blend  i guess since this cut isn't in my poodle haircut book.  

the war rages on still. that f-er dropped a bomb on an apartment complex. many on the right support the futin arse and see Ukraine as a democrat or something...they are just mad because trump got impeached for trying to bride Zolenskyy and he didn't go for it.  the goal was to get Zolenskyy to just say they were investigating biden and his son or some such lunacy. those on the right are petty, hate filled, ragers...and supposedly followers of the very liberal sounding Jesus. it never seems like many of them actually have heard the message of the new testament. 

was listening to someone speak about how nice people in the end enable people like hitler. this morning i was thinking it was like those people do not ask questions or demand answers, they simply bury their doubts and questions and demand nothing. this allows the evil that exists to just run through. 

it's ironic to me though because many i know who are christians read all they can about ww2 and the holocaust.  finding it horrific but then they do the same thing that many germans at the time no doubt did...claim fake news, look the other way, believe crazy lies and conspiracies blaming others.  it's the same that was done then and they are fascinated by how that happened and yet incapable of seeing that they are those people.  they aren't the ones who were hiding jews in their basements, they were the ones looking the other way as the jews were rounded up. telling themselves yet another lie. 

so they believe putin over the many actual documented truths of what is happening over in Ukraine.  it may be that over 100,000 children have been taken from Ukraine to russia to what fate we will never know. children, though treated terribly often across the globe are also a commodity. 

the right wants to breed a population but they have zero interest in aiding those children to have any sort of future. i still think it's mostly for canon fodder as they say. they didn't have any interest in risking their lives by joining the military and they certainly do not want their kids to. you need people on the front lines for all the battles...the truth is the poor in our nation join the military because if you live it will give you opportunities. they need poor.  the right also needs the immigrants they rail against. better to keep them down but those states rely on the legal and illegal people to exist. 

the truth also is the right needed the fetuses to be aborted. for all they scream about being "prolife". it damages their message to save those lives. the fetus has never needed anything from the right. the burden was on the pregnant woman. once those fetuses are born and become children they have needs, their parents have needs. the right has zero interest in fulfilling any needs but they did get a lot of mileage out of calling the left baby killers...so now that they have gotten their way they have to find new battles.  

they won't find anything as easy to bilk emotionally as the fetus though.  free and emotionally charged their base.  people just aren't going to care as much about sleeveless dresses in state houses. they do try over and over, distracting with one invented outrage after another. 

clearly the most entitled and outraged people on the planet if you ask me. big bird, disney, ovens, m&m's, sleeves, books, people dressed up and reading books to children. they must all have incredibly high blood pressures being so pissed off at such tiny things.  then they go and create even more things to be pissed off.  conspiracies with no facts to bind them to reality. they don't care...nothing needs to make sense, the more outrageous the better it seems. 

not many cabins out there. i did book one night for this summer for a family visit and one for March with friends. 

last summer he discovered the shed roof. looked pretty cute up there sunning himself.

this is at the dunes.

the last two days i've just popped over to the dog park.  easy and they have fun

pretty fall leaf in the early winter.

this looks like Reflection Lake

swans passing through.

been a moose in the dog park both days.  both times in the back trails.  Sunny today noticed the moose laying down off trail. he started to head over to say hello. he wasn't listening to well at that moment so i just started making noise and being a fool running past the area where the moose was. it worked. dogs do get fascinated by you when you behave like a freak. you just have to be willing to be a freak.  kids are similar. 

distraction is often needed in order to get a blood pressure or exam.  last night i was dancing to baby shark. it worked.  in life...be okay with possibly embarrassing yourself.  who cares...i mean really, who cares!  we are often taught to care way too much about how we are perceived. 

in truth is pretty arrogant to think that your silliness is going to be someone's big issue. 

i act a fool with some regularity. 

need to do some more rock painting.  some stamps arrived from Ukraine and i was going to send some off with a gift for my brother. wanted to paint a bear bread i'd collected.  will have to see if it's viable.  had it drying off in the corner behind the tree over the holidays.

what adventures will there be this summer.  we shall see. always lots of options. the cabins, well a lot of things do fill up quickly.  with covid waning i suspect we will be getting back to full capacity of tourism. 

little love between pets, always cute

really love when the mushrooms grow out of the stumps out there. 

here are a few examples.

another cool leaf. i like to find the individual leaves each year that make me smile . some of the older dry ones look like Halloween masks too..so those are fun.

just another type of fungi

these are from Sept 21...another great year for mushrooms.  

kind of a set up...looked pretty with the red berries.

the Tusker makes an appearance. :-) 

Sunny is becoming a good little watch dog.  Ivy is now willing to let him share duties. like when Tusker was around, they will swap out it seems. one will stay upstairs with me when i sleep, one downstairs, then they swap out. 

always a treat to find cup fungi.  there are different varieties of course. 

this below is Cheney Lake 

more pretty leaves

for sure Cheney Lake.

and will end with more fungi

will grab a quick snack before i crash for the night. probably head to bed early. Monday walk tomorrow. we shall see. perhaps the big loop...the bikes have packed that trail down quite a bit. 

better get my day ended. maybe shred a bit each day off. get on top of all this paper that collects in the house. 

thankful for A. improved treatment for these little babies with rsv... B. brainless entertainment, it is needed some days C. ice water.  always a favorite.  not much into soda or juice and all that, sometimes but mostly i just love my ice water