I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Just catching up....

Watching the birds outside this sad spring morning and thinking of Chickadee.  What a beautiful person she was - and what a gift she left so many people.  

Wishing her - and all who mourn - the peace that passeth understanding.

Shalom.

just logged on and found out, oh, NO NO NO NO NO, I know she's free of pain, and flying, but just so sad.  Really felt she was going to make it, love to her family, esp. her son, just so hard.

It's always a shock.  I'm not sure why, but all weekend, my gf and I were having back and forth emails about the call of the Mountain Chickadee.  For 40 years, I've identified this one call as an olive-sided flycatcher, as it was identified to me, but after I was challenged, I decided it had to be a Mountain Chickadee.  "Cheese burger" is the call.  Whether it is or not, this morning I went outside and heard the Cheese burger in my backyard and said, Oh, the Chickadee, there it is.  I don't ever note going into my backyard and noticing that sound like I did this morning.  Then to read this.  Forever that call will be our Chickadee to me. 

Any news of funeral arrangements?

Thanks, Jackie.  That's about the only thing I could read that would help me feel a little bit better.  Now so many women, will have the benefit of coverage with a preexisting condition too.

If anyone on FB gets information about the funeral arrangements, would you please post it here.  thanks.

Chickadee was online on 4/8, only such a short time ago.  Or maybe it was someone reading the warm posts from her hospice thread to her....

Somehow seems appropriate we're supposed to get snow tomorrow,  nothing feels real...

virtual hugs to all...

We're in for a freeze tomorrow morning, possibly some snow.  It's pretty late in the year for us but with this winter....nothing much surprises me.

Apparently despite what I would have considered weather that would have destroyed them, we are also going to have a record yr. for ticks.  Just this morning Dh removed the 4th. one.  This has all been in the space of a week.  I'd have thought they would have not survived the winter......and though likely not, to me it is early for them.  Normally we have not had to be concerned until the leaves were pretty much full out on the trees.....our trees out here are still pretty much in the bud state.

One night thing...the snow missed us.  We are hoping it warms up today and it should but there is a breeze that is swooshing past a lot of wet trees and ground so it doesn't feel so great right now.  Sigh !!! A nice sun out so summer will get back here slowly and hopefully no harm done to the early tree flowers like Bradford Pear and Magnolia's.....

Jackie

So far we're just getting heavy rain, may turn to sleet late tonight.  We always are inundated with ticks, it's the Black Fly from "Mother's Day to Father's Day" which keeps us all in "screen horse bonnets" until mosquito season gets ready - alas, I still love living in a rural area.  Tho this year is supposed to be horrendous for allergy sufferers.  We're about a month late in the growing season, so everything is gonna bloom at once soon.

I always, always get sleepy tired when it rains.  Still think it must have something to do with barometric pressure, also of course, laziness, and loving to nap ;-)

Happy napping to all.

Stuff you won't see on Faux News:

In addition to the 7.5 million people who purchased insurance through the exchanges, another 7.8 million went directly to the insurers and purchased insurance (http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/04//15/301820882/the-7-5-million-insured-through-obamacare-are-only-part-of-the-story)

No, on Faux, they will scream about the number of people who qualify for, and receive, Medicaid.  But everyone at Faux knows that those are just poor people, who, in their eyes, don't deserve healthcare.  No sir, in the minds of idiots, it's much better to have a substantial portion of the population using the emergency room when they need medical attention, rather than subsidizing/providing healthcare.  Because bootstraps, I guess.

Jackie - also meant to say how much I love your new avatar.  so beautiful.

RL - been reading about that guy- wonder how he feels being a "moocher" - or don't tealiban's use that word?  He's REALLY taking what isn't his.  No concept of "public land" but what if someone wanted to graze on HIS personal property...oooohhh...

ah, well...learning to try to just ignore the folks blue calls idjuts...

They are takers, not makers --- and probably throw McDonalds bags and other things out the window so some of the real "moochers" will have a job to do  to  TRY and earn some keep.  Can't have trash like that in their car anyway. 

Great numbers on the Obamacare.  Despite the hacks who "participate" in those great wing nut ads.  Every one of them make me cry in my beer.  Poor souls who don't know when they are being used. 

Beautiful orange moon outside.  I worked late tonight and we had a clear fairly cloudless day... so tonight was just right for moon watching. 

Jackie

C4C - last summer I had a dome of mosquito-less air wherever I went.  Those two drugs - Tykerb and Afinitor - did quite a number on me.  I can't imagine what they'd do to a poor mosquito.  We'll have to see how they like my CDK 4/6 inhibitor this year.

Don't even get me started on that rancher and the gun toting knuckle draggers who supported him.  Did you know their plan  included a protective wall of women, so that if the feds fired they'd hid the women first?  But...but...FREEDUMBS and LIBERTEES and stuff!  Why is this so hard for the right to understand?  It's not his land.  Pay or get off the toilet.  Hallelujah.  Holy shit.

And good morning.

No argument from me on the above two posts ( E and Blue ) and I just read this a.m. about the wall of women -- what a lesson in how to STAND up for what you believe, huh !!!!  What SLIME -- a bunch of total losers if ever there were any.   I know who may be cheering them on and they too are the worst kind of zealot losers.    They never seem to UNDERSTAND that even if they  WIN, they lose.    In the words of an older movie I really loved........and the farmer hauled another load away. 

Jackie

If you don't like laws, you fight them in court, not with bombs and guns.

 This Bundy guy will pay.  Oh yes, he will.