Musings

No-vet-bill sheep

I find this yard-sheep appealingly winsome. I’ve been eyeing it as a photo possibility, but kept walking every time until today. Yet, my photo doesn’t convey the appeal I found in person. Instead, it just looks like a plastic…something.

FWP*

Looks like I need some fresh spices for…well, for the next pumpkin pie season…. So, the big question: now? (so they’re in the house when needed); or later? (so they’re fresher when needed).

* FWP = first world problem

Boxing mysteries

Camellia profile

I read a bit online about Boxing Day. I guess today can’t be Boxing Day, at least in some times and places, because it’s a Sunday. Mostly I was trying to find out what the boxes were made of, because the ritual began before cardboard. Perhaps the box meant alms boxes at the church, or perhaps the box was what the gifts were put in. I’m betting either way the boxes were some kind of wood, but I didn’t get that confirmed.

Oh, JOY

Joy street art

Seasonal public art.

Honoring new-to-me medication I just got today. So far: successful. It’s a gel with 1% diclofenac sodium (yes, I got the generic), to treat arthritis joint pain and swelling. With the first treatment, I felt much better in 10 minutes, which is huge. It’s rather messy to put on, especially compared to the ease of chugging a couple of tablets, but the NSAID chemistry is better overall with the gel than by-mouth tabs.

Oh, my

Omicron is the dominant strain of COVID now in the US. This is what highly transmissible statistics look like.

And my sense of science indicates more variants are coming…not just variants, but variants we civilians will be talking about.

Yikes.

Five-star backstabbers

We watched the final episode of this season of “Succession,” and those are the nastiest folks. Every one. At the drop of an iPhone, they will connive and lie and insult, and, mostly mean it.

Luck-ified

Lucky me, I found a penny! Battered, yet I suspect still worth one cent.

Double lucky…I found blooming jonquils. Just a bit too far to lean over and inhale.

Distracted

Oops. Wrong holiday.

Pre-feasting planning underway

Thinking about feasting this coming week…and working on my to-do lists.

This feasting tent was last Saturday at a nearby synagogue…lunch following services is standard….

Camera records

Been especially enjoying the maple leaves lately (nothing to do with hockey). Here’s gold and there’s red.

“Not enough power for both camera and pan tilt motors”

The Guru just found those words on a frozen (haha) photo on the live-cam image up at Sault Ste. Marie…overlooking the locks.

And now you know, too.