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Friday, July 6, 2018
Best wishes for Happy Uneventful Welping!
(And, imo, aok to whine about mundane challenges, even as others navigate heartbreaking loss. We all know that each of us recognize the difference)
HW:361 SW:304 (VSG 12/04/2014)Mo 1:-32 Mo 2:-13.5 Mo 3: -13.5 Mo 4 -9.5 Mo 5: -15 Mo 6: -15 Mo 7: -13.5 Mo 8: -17 Mo 9: -13 Mo 10: -12.5 11/3/2015 Healthy BMI Reached! Mo 11: -9 Mo 12: -8 12/27/2015 Goal Weight Reached!
Greetings Friday Festives
148.5 today. Got up really early (for me) to drive to the fairgrounds for dog show. Tesla is so not ready for prime tome. But she had a ball and was not the slightest bit spooky and pranced around the ring wagging her tail. My friend's husband showed her for me and she was second in her class. My friend got a 4 point major and finished her championship. So it was a good day. Grateful that Tesla did not poop in the ring nor bite the judge. (For Peps: a really ugly dog won the puppy class so we called it "Best In Shelter". Tee Hee).
I am tired out from early activity and hauling dog show junk. Lordy, I used to do this all the time. Too lazy now.
Diane O, love the story on the synchronized dog swimming. Years ago my friends had a golden retriever and also a swimming pool. The dog spent so much time in the chlorinated pool water that he turned green! My friend had to get stuff from the hairdresser that they use on people whose hair gets greenish from pool use.
Liz have fun at museums. Peps, hope those puppies come in the late afternoon so you can get some rest (fat chance).
Love the pic's Shel. When we went to the Hall of Mosses it was unusually hot and it was sort of the Hall of Dried Out Mosses. Looks green now! GL on tomorrows hike.
Nice kid picture Miss 150. I so remember those snow suit outfits we had in the midwest. And the vintage car. Indeed, honor your young self.
Banking and misc errands today. Fire day at the studio but I will skip it. Off to take a nap after rude early morning awakening. Later. Diane S
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There was a fair amount of brown in my hike, too. I was thinking I should come back in the rainy season. But, that 101! It is hard to WANT to drive on 101 in the rainy season! Especially since there aren't nice places to stay around there. (And, as you know, I am not all that picky so that is saying something!)
In my environmental fiction book, (I never get tired of mentioning that genre,) the current villain is Humboldt Logging company. It was a super-responsible logging company until a hostile takeover. Now it is cutting everything it can to pay for the new owner's debt. The main characters (all 5 million of them, I swear) have been called to protect the old growth. The setting jumps around a lot. Right now the battle is in Oregon.
But, SO MANY references to Humboldt county culture! This author obviously lived in Iowa at some point, too. Midwest references are also spot on.
HW:361 SW:304 (VSG 12/04/2014)Mo 1:-32 Mo 2:-13.5 Mo 3: -13.5 Mo 4 -9.5 Mo 5: -15 Mo 6: -15 Mo 7: -13.5 Mo 8: -17 Mo 9: -13 Mo 10: -12.5 11/3/2015 Healthy BMI Reached! Mo 11: -9 Mo 12: -8 12/27/2015 Goal Weight Reached!
Interesting on the evil lumber company Shel. Years ago there was Pacific Lumber which was later bought out by PalCo, owned by some nasty guy. They cut right and left and there were tree sitters out there until they reached a settlement to protect some old growth. They guy looted the company and ran it into bankruptcy and a large lumber mill ended up shuttered for good. Fiction or not fiction? ds
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A week or two ago I googled it to get a little background. (A drawback of audible books is that you can't read the book jacket. Also, listening while hiking isn't the best way to catch all the details.)
I found a review that confirmed it is fiction but suggested at least some of the characters were based on real life individuals, even to the point of having the same initials -- that sort of thing. I don't remember if he said anything about the lumber company but I think you just confirmed it was also based on the past.
There was also a short section about how the public paid for the whole fiasco because the guy had been financed thru Savings and Loans (???? I might have the wrong financial institution) that had to be bailed out by government. So the public lost money and forests. And a lot of ill will created in the process.
A description of two tree sitters' life at the top of a giant Redwood has been fascinating. When I turned it off yesterday, a huge storm wa****ting and they were hanging on for their dear lives. "Don't fight it! Just relax and swing!"
HW:361 SW:304 (VSG 12/04/2014)Mo 1:-32 Mo 2:-13.5 Mo 3: -13.5 Mo 4 -9.5 Mo 5: -15 Mo 6: -15 Mo 7: -13.5 Mo 8: -17 Mo 9: -13 Mo 10: -12.5 11/3/2015 Healthy BMI Reached! Mo 11: -9 Mo 12: -8 12/27/2015 Goal Weight Reached!
on 7/6/18 5:48 pm, edited 7/6/18 10:49 am
Whining momentarily... it's 111 outside right now at 5:48pm. 
But I did go to the movies and saw a RIVETING documentary out right now called Three Identical Strangers. RIVETING, I say!! I think I said "WOW" out loud at least 5 times and I hate people who utter a syllable in a movie theater. See it. That is all.
on 7/6/18 10:47 pm
Some more whining... it's still 91 degrees at 10:45 and my power has been out for the last 3 hours and 15 minutes (it was 107 when the power went out). It's sooo hot in my house, but hotter outside! I even drove around for an hour with Ferg in the Fergmobile to charge my phone and hang out in the a/c. Several of my neighbors are sitting in their running cars in their driveways. Ugh.
