Dad did go out some this month - just to get some pictures... |
Buttercup has been getting a lot of time at the park to chase the ball... |
So much so that sometimes she even says, "that's enough" and heads home on her own! |
Dad promised he wouldn't go overboard on clover pictures this year... |
But this one is pretty cool, isn't it? |
We had a good day for Harry's Heaven Day this year... |
We didn't get as many plants as some past years, but we got some good ones and we'll add some more later... |
Dad also built some lattice under the front of the house to make it look prettier... |
Dad rode his bike to (and around) Hagg Lake - clearly not the normal Memorial Weekend crowds... |
Dad didn't have enough to do so he took more pictures of flowers in the yard... |
It looks like summer doesn't it? Don't worry... the rain came back... |
As you know, I usually go out to the interwebs and look for something to use as inspiritation for the monthly ramble that is my blog...
This month I started with "what didn't happen in may 2020" and the results were a little disturbing...
from the AP - Not Real News: A look at what didn't happen this week...
from the Las Vegas Sun - Not Real News: A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week.
from the Daily Beast - Here's a Preview of America's 2020 Nightmare if Trump Loses: CLINGING TO POWER - Foreign leaders have demanded do-overs of elections they've lost, and got them.
from The Atlantic - What Would Happen if Trump Refused to Leave...
So, I was just looking for things that got put off this year because of the quarantine and instead I got a laundry list of things that people are lying about now: editted photos of a Minneapolis police officer wearing a white supremacist hat and appearing at a Trump rally (neither actually happened), a photo of a "federal agent" inciting violence at a Minneapolis protest (actually an Antifa protestor in Germany from weeks earlier), photos of fires set while protesting in Minneapolis (except the photos first appeared in 1992), people stealing "Thomas the Tank Engine" from the mall in Minneapolis (except that photo is from 2014), proof that COVID-19 was genetically engineered as a weapon (except that the proof is (as noted in the article) roughly equivalent to "dogs have legs and people have legs, so dogs and people are the same..."), and the coronavirus isn't even a virus it is a bacterium that can be treated with aspirin and blood thinners (which is just silly since neither aspirin nor blood thinners are antibiotics even if somehow the whole medical world had misdiagnosed this as a viral problem in the first place.) Aren't the real stories bad enough? Why do people have to proliferate stupidity as well?
And I got two articles already contemplating how the political divide in the country could result in catastrophe come November. Can't we worry about June first?
Sorry - no silly ramble this month... perhaps we need to focus on World Laughter Day - a day where people meet in public to laugh. The goal is to force laughter to induce real laughter. Of course we can't meet in public, but try meeting on Zoom - that should produce enough of its own laughter (or at least cringe) worthy moments...