Talk about quiet!

 I haven't updated this in some time but there is a simple reason:  nothing to say!  We haven't even had a special sunset lately and no way am I getting up early enough for sunrise!  

We are surrounded by Republicans around here but at least there was a "No Kings" demonstration here along with the rest of the country.  I simply cannot imagine how these Republicans think Mr. Trump is doing anything for them.  Things are getting more expensive by the minute and governmental help is disappearing just as fast.  I'm waiting on ICE to come into town and drag off 10-15% of the population sending them back to Mexico or pretty much any South American country.  Most of our medical professionals are from overseas as well (mostly Asian countries) but I've got to think that even Trump isn't stupid enough to send them back to their country of origin.

 The thing that bothers me most about Mr. Trump is his mental state.  He is clearly not all there!  Every speech has statements that not only are weird but they have nothing to do with what he's talking about.  Getting the Republican's to see he has to go to the sidelines is going to be difficult unless he does something completely crazy.  And then I'm worried about his Vice President and Cabinet officials.  They seem even crazier than he is so without him who knows what they will be trying to do.  My guess is that we'll be finding out before too long.

Meanwhile, our personal days are full of fun.  My wife has Physical Therapy twice a week and one or the other of us needs to have blood drawn or an MRI or some scan done every couple of weeks.  Otherwise it's just living life.  Of course my wife can't do much of anything so I'm doing the shopping; cooking; laundry; cleaning; feeding the dog and the wild birds; pretty much everything and that's a lot for an old fart like me!  She is getting better with using a walker and the PT people have her using some specialized kind of cane but she does still need plenty of rides in the wheelchair.   I did have my 77th birthday last month so now I'm on my way to 78.  I'm really happy that I can do all that stuff and help her get around as well.  The fact that I see some movie star or someone dying when they are 5 or 10 years younger than I am does make me feel kind of weird.  Of course who knows what kind of life they were living!  Maybe they were living in the fast lane and God knows I'm pretty much in the slow lane!

I guess that's it for tonight.  Take care of yourself and your loved ones.  Keep keeping clean and stay away from the idiots!

Another lovely sunset!

 It's not tough to be out with the dog after his dinner when you get to look at this!

 We talk about moving but this sure makes it difficult!  Have a good one!

Just a short update! No Kings!

 Today there were supposed to be 'No Kings' demonstrations all over the country.  We weren't expecting much since there are so many Trump fans living here but we were wrong!  The center of our town is where 2 highways meet and there were people on all four sides of the meeting.  I was guessing that there were at least 100 people and almost everyone who went past was honking their horn and waving in support!  It was great!  We had thought about going out and joining them but my wife's ankle was really barking so we just drove past the demonstrators two or three times honking and waving.  Damn, it would be lovely if President Dummy and his crowd noticed that there are plenty of people who disagree with his desire to own the country!  Our local sheriff was out there and a deputy or two but everyone was being good so they just stood around and watched the fun.

Then we went to CVS and got Covid shots.  We are still hoping to take a cruise in February and getting ill on the cruise isn't that much fun.  Yeah, we've tried that and the medics are very nice and competent but I'd still rather not have to deal with them. 

Anyway, that was our day.  70F (21C), not much wind, lots of sun and excited people!   

Quiet times

 We've been having some quiet times out here in rural Nevada.  Not to say nothing's happening.  It was a tad windy the other day.

 That's the flag outside our largest casino and getting it flat out like that is pretty unusual.  It takes some real wind.  The casino across the street has another flag about the same size but I couldn't get them both in one photo.  

We've also had some weird weather.

 That is the view to the east; towards the mountains.  And, yes, we got a little rain and some snow up on the mountain peaks.  I think we got up to 65F (18C) that day.

That was the view to the west.  These photos were taken about 30 seconds apart so you either get cloudy and nasty or pretty blue and sunny depending on which direction you are looking.  By tomorrow we should be in the low 80's (28C).  Who knows what's going to happen next!
 

We do donate to the VFW Food Bank about once a month.  A store was having a case sale so I got a couple of cases for the vets.  It was something over $300 but, well, why not? 

 I know I've mentioned it before but my dad (and me, of course) and all the men in my wife's family served in the military.  We both want to help those folks who served our country and need help.  

My wife's ankle is still giving her trouble.  She had it fused almost 3 months ago and it is still very painful.  She had a women coming around giving her PT advice and now she is going to a local PT office but walking is pretty much out of the question.  We did go out to lunch the other day and she used her walker but around the house or if we are going someplace with lots of walking; it's a wheelchair day.  She certainly hasn't been in a grocery store since the surgery!  Oh, and I'm doing most of the cooking so you can guess it's been pretty second rate!

So that's what's going on around here.  The place is about 90% Republican so you still see some Trump signs but not nearly as many as six months ago!  I'm pretty sure that within a year we'll be almost free of those signs.  Not free of the President nor the idiots he has in the cabinet but people will be noticing the decline in their lives; freedom; savings and I don't know what else.  I am a little worried that we might have a President J. D. Vance  but we'll have to cross that bridge when we get there.  Talk a life in the crap lane!

Have a good one and try to get all the vaccines you need and keep washing those hands!

Did I say slow?

 Well, this week has been different.  My wife had two doctor's appointments, one Tuesday and one Thursday, both in Vegas!  That's a quick 250 miles more on the car.  What the heck; it's just passed 78,000 miles and it's a 2016 model.  Well, at least we got to eat 2 lunches at BJ's Restaurant.  They have nice food, good beer and a desert they call the pizookie.  It is a small, freshly baked cookie-sized cake with a scoop of ice cream on top.  I'm sorry to report that I'm addicted to them.  I guess I should be glad we don't have a BJ's here in town.  

The good news from all that is that my wife is ok'd to walk using the walker.  It's not like she's going to be running around the block any time soon but walking is a good thing!  Check out the hardware in her ankle.  

 At any rate, the doctor liked the look and told her to go walk around.  He also got her signed up for a different, more complete sort of PT.  We'll start that next week.  Fun and games!

We got home and spent a quiet night; our dog was in a kennel.  I went and got him this a.m.  He's not too happy from being there but what can you do?  We fed him tonight and I went out with him in the back yard.  We had a nice but not spectacular sunset. 

Well, that's almost all the news.  There is a new house being built across from us and one empty street over so we get a great view of it.  They have a good sized area built for horses and now we have 4 new neighbors!  They are quiet but we'll see how they are when their humans come to annoy them.
 

Have a good one & try not to get arrested for saying bad things about Trump!  Take care. 

Yet more life in the SLOW lane!

 Yep, things are moving along but pretty much at a snail's pace.  My wife is still in her wheelchair; hopefully she'll get out of it in a couple weeks but who knows.  In the mean time she is trying out the walker for 20-30 feet at a time.  Honestly, for her that's pretty good.  I'm just happy that I can help her!  I mean otherwise we'd be in some kind of care home.

In other exciting news we have had the usual 6-8 doctor visits each month (not counting the physical therapist who is checking on my wife).  It's a good excuse for driving into Vegas so I can visit the Total Wine store.  Otherwise we just wander around our 'little' town.  I checked it on Google Maps and it worked out to be something like 11 miles east to west and 19 miles north to south!  As you might suspect, one of the most common places for us to go these days in the Intermountain Healthcare building.  They have a pretty large parking area on two sides of the building.  As I was leaving the other day I had to take a couple of photos.  

 

Yep, two wild horses!  There are a fair number around here but I've never seen them by the doctor's office.  Usually they prefer a little park over by the county office where there is lots of nice green grass and shade trees.  They even get into our local paper:  https://pvtimes.com/news/no-touching-or-feeding-the-horses-152526/.  There was at least one more horse in the area but it was hiding behind a cafe and I couldn't get a photo of it.  We have wild burros around as well but they are more likely to be hiding out in the desert areas.  BTW, those mountains in the background are in California.  

Anyway, that's all the news from around here.  Exciting stuff, huh.  Have a good one and try to keep out of trouble! 

Just creeping along

 Ok, it's been way too long but we are just having too much fun visiting doctors and other shit.  It is also true that there isn't much going on around here.  There are some houses being built; that is VERY different from a few years ago but, still, it's not really affecting us.  One of these days I'm sure it will and we'll get new neighbors.  The weather is being weird.  One day it is 50F and the next it is 85F and the next 105F.  One day it is quiet and the next we have 20 mph wind.  Again, what do I do?  I drive the car to the store and buy some stuff for dinner then drive home.  

Out in the world we've got Mr. Trump, AKA the Idiot in Chief, who just keeps doing stupid things.  I have to admit that he isn't as stupid as the people he's appointed to be in his cabinet but, well, that would be a stretch.  One of the really minor things Mr. Trump did just recently was to pardon a local politician who was appointed a judge and then found guilty of fraud.  She was in Las Vegas and started a support group to build a statue of a local policeman who was killed in the line of duty.  Then she used the money people donated to pay her rent, pay for her daughter's wedding and some plastic surgery.  She was found guilty of a felony of conspiracy and wire fraud.  So our felon of a president chose to remove the felony from this sorry ass judge.  Actually, on a scale of 1 to 10, it's way down there but it's still just so wrong!

OMG!  Here it is the 10th of August and I'm finding a post I started almost two weeks ago!  Well, to be honest there isn't much going on around here.  My wife's ankle is still causing her pain and she's still in the wheelchair.  Helping her around is my new exercise routine.  She has an appointment with her surgeon next week but I'm thinking she will have to be pretty careful for quite a while yet.  I'm going to the grocery store a couple of times a week and going to our favorite restaurants for take-out a couple more but that's about it.  A couple days of the week I don't even get to leave the house.  And an exercise routine, forget about it!

There are plenty of fires out here in the West.  They are pretty unlikely in this part of Nevada but it sure isn't impossible.  There are fire bans all over.  What they can't ban is the smoke from  the fires!  Most of the fires are in California but there are some fairly large ones on government land that used to be part of the Nuclear Test Site.  We have mountains to the east and west of us so the smoke tends to come down the valley areas.  Bottom line is that we can barely see mountains that are only 6 or 8 miles away.  Happily neither my wife or myself is bothered by the smoke but some folks do have problems with it.

So that's the story from here in Pahrump.  Oh, one funny story about the president.  We were driving out of a parking lot and a speed limit sign was blocking part of a sign naming the business in the building.  All I could see of the 2nd one was 'RUMP' and of course I was shocked that someone had opened an office for the president.  Turns out it was really something like 'JOHN'S PHARMACY PAHRUMP' and I could only see the last little part of it.  Whew!  That was a relief!  Take care.  Keep washing those hands and stay away from the sickies.