Saturday Morning Sip

Wow... this was a long short month... felt like it's been YEARS.  Last day of February. 

Yup.  That's me. 

Coffee.  Black. Please.

 

 

I stand with Ukraine.

Applies to MAGA and the GOP, as well. 

TAKE ME WITH YOU! 

And be fabulous about it! 

 

 

 

Yup.  Don't give a rats ass how the GOP feels right now. 

Must have toy for 2026! 

And get the fuck out of my face. 

 And please stop forwarding me Facebook crap.

 

 Into March we go.

Memories of my childhood. 

 

 

Let's round out Black History Month

with the legendary Nina Simone.

 

"Mississippi Goddamn." 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Daily Meme... and MEN!!

 

 

 

 

 

It's in the smile! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Daily Meme

 

 

Thank you, Wiley. 

How it's done, people!

 

 

 

I love this!  Thank you, AP News, for capturing the moment!  

Your Daily Meme

 

Tiverton Town Alert: Trash & Recycling

Evening!  To my townie friends who might catch the blog tonight; the town has now cancelled all trash and recycling for the week; schedule resumes as normal for next week.  

No bins, no barrels until next week.   

FMI: https://www.tiverton.ri.gov/AlertCenter.aspx?AID=11 

Rade 

 

The Big Dig (Out)

There is over 2' of snow on our side street (up past my knee!), not counting the drifts.  I tried to walk to the  corner to take some photos, but it got too deep to move through.  

 

Looking North. 

 

The side entrance... 

 

Looking South. 

On the plus, the town finally opened up the center of the road in front of our home.  Going to wait until they do that side street before we attempt to dig ourselves out any further.  

 

Morning Coffee Roundup - February 24

Roads have not yet been plowed, so a good morning for a pot of coffee and to scan though funny and interesting things to share...

Thank you, Wiley.

 

It's these little things in life... 

 

GREAT take down of Twitter by John Oliver, of how the 

platform is nothing more than a fire hydrant for

political disinformation and toxic rage.  I have family

and acquaintances who insist on sending me links from 

there. I just delete them and tell them, "No thanks".  
 

And finally, the SOTU is tonight. 

Personally, when SCROTUS is on,

we choose the OTHER red button on the remote. 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Daily Meme

 

 

Thank you, Wiley. 

The Blizzard of '26.

 

Outside the back door. 

 

A view down our street. 

The driveway... my gym is now open.

Opened up enough to get the old Toro out!  

A bit of an overhang... 

Driveway done, and we beat the town plows. 

Stopped right at the curb. 

All in all, about 28" of new snow with a 

1" ice pack on the base. Glad we cleared this today! 

 

The sun has set.  The storm is gone.

Nary a plow truck in the neighborhood. 

Time to call it a night.  

Balalaika time...

Days like today make me want to watch "Doctor Zhivago" and practice the balalaika...

The view outside our patio door onto our deck.   

 

The back yard (covered patio from first photo)

(from under eave security camera) 

 

View of the street through the front door. 

 

Side entrance view before...  

 

Side entrance view during... 

(another under eave security camera shot;

door has snow 1/2 way up) 

 

 

Side view of house before...

 

 

Side view of house during...

 

It's been a good morning for a pot of tea (not my usual coffee).  Power went out (so far) for all of about 15 seconds.  Just enough to reset every clock in the house.  Local meteorologists are saying this won't begin to subside until early afternoon and the wind won't let up until tonight.  

 

We certainly have a good 16" of snow on top of what we had from last weeks storm.  

 

But we're in.  Safe.  

 

Nesting upward,

Rade 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday

 Blizzard Day in Rhode Island.

 And some "High Brow" entertainment to keep us sane...

 

Sunday Morning Sip

Sunday... Sunday... Sunday... coffee...

Not big enough... 

 

Ah yup. 

Well... I am an asshole, just not that kind of asshole. 

Between the disapproving look from my eyes,

the tense clench of my jaw and my 

near imperceptibly mumbling "Holy fuck!" under my breath,

I'm finding hiding my thoughts in public is nearly impossible. 

 

I do not want to know the amount of money

that fucker grifted since landing his fat ass

back in office. 

Winter ends soon. 

 

I have my "Morning when you first pee" pill.

Then the "Morning before you eat" pills.

Then the "Take after dinner" pills

Then the "Take before bedtime" pills.

The "getting old" shit if for the birds. 

I have entered the phase of calling everyone

"Sweetie", "Dearie" and "Hon." 

Thank you, Wiley. 

 

But "Are you fucking kidding me?" is taken. 

Ah-yup.  

And left him some fur! 

Applies to so many things. 

 

 

 Some food for thought.

 

My husband and I watched the Netflix series 

"Living to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones" by Dan Buettner.

A lot of this YouTube video jibes with that series.

Just good advice on taking care of yourself, your life and your community.  

I certainly don't plan to live to 100, but if I can 

make these last decades on Earth a bit... healthier... 

comfortable, functional... I'll take it.