Carrot Man

Need I say anything more about this interesting carrot John brought in from the garden? I believe there is a resemblance....not to John, I hasten to add but to someone often referred to as ‘orange’.

I t took me two trips to Walgreens first trip to be told I needed insurance cards, second trip with insurance cards,  waiting ages while she entered all the information from the cards into her computer and eventually being told that they already had the insurance information but it was too early to refill the prescriptions. So I think the transfer has been made fairly painlessly, but we'll see.

John has been clearing out a raised bed that is right outside our living room window, so we went to the nursery and bought a lot of flowers to put in it. We wanted instant gratification so we bought a lot of plants that are blooming right now. I hope they keep blooming for awhile.

My neighbor Ann came over with a pair of jeans that need shortening and my other neighbor Cindy is coming over shortly with her Bassett hound, Hazel. Cindy is has just gotten off crutches after surgery to repair a torn meniscus in her knee so it's been over six weeks since she has been able to visit.

I'm thinking of swapping my Kindle and Amazon for an iPad and Apple books but I'm wondering, is Apple and Tim Cook an improvement over Amazon and Jeff Bezos? It's kind of comparing apples and oranges, (ha ha) but the bottom line is that we've become so dependent on both of them that it's hard to see swapping one for the other as an improvement. 

I think the Big Ugly Bill may have passed today, or at least passed a crucial test,  since there weren't enough Republicans with a spine to defeat it, so I'll let Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) have the last word.

This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress. We're debating a bill that's going to cut healthcare for 16 million people. It's going to give a tax break to massively wealthy people who don't need the money.