Scribblings

If you try to type Kardisians into a text message it auto corrects to lard ashcans? At least, my did.

Didn’t know this weekend was Memorial Day until I started seeing news stories. Then realized that my day calendar comes from China and, upon closer perusal, has NO American holidays listed. That’s what comes from buying cheap.

To all our troops, stay safe. And given the current state of affairs, that might mean stay clear of the VA where you will die while waiting for an appointment. If Fallujah didn’t get you, the VA will.

The fires have reached a frightening level on the Kenai Peninsula and waking up to grey, smoke filled skies is making my sinuses go on the kind of strike that leads to horrible headaches. Plus, if it doesn’t rain soon, I may be forced to water my lawn. And we all know how much I like to be outside in the sun.

So why is the ragged, dirty and smelly Santa the only one that counts? And why does the fight for it have to take place around my feet as I try to write? Why?

The older I get, the more my conversation is peppered with the phrase, “I can’t think of the name right now”, to which an old friend will always be able to reply, “That’s ok. I know who/what you mean.” The conversation will continue and perhaps even move on to other topics when suddenly one or the other of us will blurt out the name we couldn’t remember. Even though the name no longer has any connection to the conversation, we both immediately know why it was said, who it referred to, and can continue our current conversation without interruption.

Old

1. Sky diving

2. Walking into a store and buying pot.

Wonder which one has the greater potential to become reality?

You are both my love and my nemesis. I buy a box of you to support a good cause and then wonder where I will find the strength to bring you to Bird TLC so I won’t devour all of you myself and end up with a blood sugar in the 6000s.

Maybe I could just attach an IV bag of insulin to me and eat the entire thing… ah fantasies…

International Migratory Bird Day at the Alaska Zoo. Bird TLC will be there with some of our education birds all afternoon. And Kodi, our Cache Crow, will be there hoping you’ll give him money for fresh meal worms.

Listening to all the political ads, I have to wonder how all those truths can co-exist in the same reality. And if they don’t co-exist in the same reality, then whose reality should I believe?

The bad… mosquitoes that want to eat your young alive

The good… grilling salmon.