The Prayer I Would Pray If I Believed In Prayer: Dear God. Let Us Vote Those Motherfuckers Out

Here we have a lousy shot of one of the five crows who come around to eat at the Stump Cafe but you'll have to give me grace on this one as it was taken through the screen. The birds do not like it when I sit outside to watch them, even if I'm just sitting very still on the top step leading onto the porch. I suppose I could try sitting still for longer periods of time every day but these birds are never going to be my pets. I probably shouldn't even be feeding them, and trying to lure them closer to me doesn't seem right. 
But I will be honest and tell you that I would be incredibly delighted if I had a crow buddy who liked to ride around on my shoulder now and then but I don't have that sort of patience. 

Man, I'm adjusting to this time change thing really easily! I slept that extra hour on Sunday morning like a boss, and then was ready to go to bed at least half an hour earlier last night than I usually do. 
Sleep really is just about my favorite thing despite the weird-ass dreams I have from which I wake up so very thankful they were only dreams. 
But my biggest achievement in time change adaptation was that for the first time since I got my car, I was able to reset the dashboard clock without searching Google for a video on how to do it! And it only took me two tries! 
I now know how Frito Ass Brain felt when he correctly identified the rhinoceros! 
I'm flying high on this accomplishment tonight. 

I met Jessie in town to do Costco shopping around noon although the only thing I got was a bag of avocados. She needed more than that. It was just so good to walk around the store with her, talking about stuff. She had a few things to return to Walmart so I went on to the restaurant where we'd decided to eat lunch (you KNOW we were going to eat lunch) and ordered for both of us. It's a long-time Tallahassee place where you can get good sandwiches, soups, and salads made out of real ingredients. Jessie and I both wanted the Mediterranean tuna salad which is really delicious. It has tuna, yes, and the normal salad vegetables, but it also has navy beans in it. I've tried to recreate it at home but just can't get it exactly right.
We talked about more stuff, of course and a good deal of that talk concerned tomorrow's election. We have thoughts. 
As do we all.
But I imagine you know in which direction our thoughts are aimed. 
I can't even bear to talk about it here. I was SO fucking sure that Hilary would beat that piece of rancid fatback in 2016 that I was truly stunned when she didn't. My opinion of the American citizenry sunk to a level I did not know existed and it has only gone lower in the last ten years. Same with the level of corruption, lies, scams, ass-kissing, and a Senate and Congress who have been afraid to call their king out on anything. 
And, as they used to say on the Ginzu knife commercials- SO MUCH MORE! 
I could go on and on about my fears of vote rigging and government intervention in the process and all of that but I just cannot. 
I wonder what I'll be saying tomorrow at this time. Of course the votes won't all be in and counted at that time but we should have some idea. 

Moving on to a far happier topic, Levon's birthday is a week from today and he has made a wish list for presents. 

We were all mystified as to what a sygaro chain is but Jessie told us that it's actually a FIGARO chain, as in a necklace, and that he has researched chain types and this is the one he likes. 

This is a child who is about to be nine years old. 
As I said in the group text, "Dude is a dude." 
He was born a dude, he'll always be a dude. 
Unless of course I am totally wrong and he tells us a few years down the road that he's actually a woman and although in this case that would surprise me, I would not keel over from shock. 
Not in this family. 
All that aside, I love his list and the way he categorized it into "name" and "picture." Let us not get confused.

Alan is still with us. His heart must be so strong. 
The long-term care place where he is now got a new patient today. That person is suffering from West Nile virus which is also mosquito borne.
We are entering a whole new world of disease due to climate change. As I said to Jessie today, at some point we're going to be looking back on the good old days when mosquitoes were just an annoying pest instead of every one of them being a potential threat of disease and death. 

And on that happy note, I shall end this and go and make a salad. 

Sigh.

Love...Ms. Moon