kind, truthful, necessary

just wrote a big dispatch about this dumb bird that keeps pecking the window & somehow that morphed into writing about the horrifying fact that the jeffrey dahmer netflix series is #1 with viewers which means children are watching it, & i know that bc one of my 5th grade students mentioned it, & that is just scary & sickening to consider. tho when i was little, i was drawn to the muerte magazines at the panaderia we'd walk to down on baker & sumner in east bakersfield. hmmmm.... anyways, i don't think i should go into all the hand-wringing detail about all of that, it's not necessary, so the post is going to oblivion. and how are you? today it is beautiful on frazier mountain. our "new ward" (as dad calls him) is lewis, who had been at shelter on the hill for over 6 months. he is very old & very cute. we wanted a puppy, but the puppy was a spazz & she would've mowed mom & dad down when they visited, & she was immediately adopted by someone else, anyways, so we took sweet little lewis, who, it turns out, is a texas heeler. we renamed him joe louis, of course. penny isn't sure about him, but it's worked out excessively well, considering. james says we "dodged a bullet" not getting joe louis in his youth bc as his little personality has come out, we realize he would have been hell on wheels, were he still young. he sneaks food & broke through the dog door & for a while liked to walk up behind the cat & snarl, causing the cat to fly in the air like a cartoon figure. he has a raspy bark & doesn't vocalize except to grunt & snuffle like a pig. maddy remarked, "maybe he was raised with a pig." he likes to hide in corners, like on top of my clothes in the closet. we absolutely are in love with this little old guy. did i say he is adorable? there goes that darn stupid bird again. i think it's a warbler. i thought maybe it was pecking at bugs, which seemed intelligent (wait in the nearby tree, hiding, then jump out & eat a bug off the window), but james says the bird thinks he sees another bird in the reflection of the window. so the bird just is dumb. a bird brain, in other words. that's all for now. i hope i get the motor bike for james today & that we get the dogsitter off rover.com & therefore get to go to vegas for our 10th anniversary & buy the army tent that will be a sauna. and i hope somehow kids don't see the jeffrey dahmer show.

death and...

i just did our damn taxes. late, but w/one wk to spare. dear god!!!! why?!?!?!?! i'm not an outlaw like aunty rita & uncle henry, who didn't pay their taxes for yrs... should feel relieved, but i'm just exhausted!!!!!! what a pain in the a**!!!!!! that is all for now except that i have lost 10 lbs & we did get our little old man, joe louis page, arthritic canine extraordinarius, or as dad called him as they stopped thru en route back from angie's bd at the coast, "your new ward."