Preening.
So he can look all ruffled.
So he can look all ruffled. Judy
The splint.
The cool new cast.
Fiberglass. The thumb is healing right on schedule. In four weeks she can start to use it again. We’re back home in the Valley. It’s all good.
The cool new cast.Fiberglass. The thumb is healing right on schedule. In four weeks she can start to use it again. We’re back home in the Valley. It’s all good. We were doing so well
We had 394 species of birds on our year-list while we were on our trip. When we got back to the coast we picked up three more for a total of 397. That’s where we were in the middle of July. That’s where we are now in the middle of August. There are still a lot of birds here, but they’re birds we’ve already seen this year. There are a few summertime-only birds, but we’ve already seen those too. Fall migration will open up new possibilities though. We’re watching local bird sightings with interest. Drove to Corpus today. Judy gets her splint off, stitches out, and a new cast on tomorrow.
Poor Steve?
Judy is not very comfortable yet from where they cut off her thumb then reattached it to her hand. Her right arm is immobilized from her elbow to her fingertips. She can’t open a bottle cap or medicine bottle by herself. She can’t even lean back in the recliner without help to pull the lever. And her cabana boy is unreliable. Poor Judy!
What happened to the news?
When Walter Cronkite closed his show with “And that’s the way it is.” we believed him. When did the news stop being about the truth? The sports broadcasters don’t just make up scores and tell us one team won when the other really did. The weather forecasters might not get it right every time, but they never try to tell us it’s hot outside when we can look out the window and see it’s snowing. What happened to the political coverage: and how did so many things get political? Every cable news broadcast has panels so they can present all sides of the story; often surrogates who spin events to sound like their candidate is always right and every other candidate is always wrong; and if they can’t answer the question, they just answer some other question of their own choosing. Having surrogates come on the air and lie is not presenting all sides of the story; it’s not the news; it’s just people lying. I watched a disagreement about a point of fact; a demonstrable fact; there was video tape of what actually happened. In this disagreement, one person is describing what happened, and the other is saying what we were looking at didn’t happen, and sticking to that talking point in the face of incontrovertible evidence. The newscaster had to go to break and ended the exchange with “Well then, we’ll just agree to disagree.” It wasn’t a disagreement! One person was telling the truth and the other was lying. Wrong does not deserve equal time with right. The news is so predictably infused with opinion, that we can choose the slant we want just by choosing a particular channel. I don’t want to watch the conservative news or the liberal news; I just want to watch the news.